porcelain, ribbon, metal, plastic, gun lock box
dimensions variable
2018
This is Who We Are is a participatory performance reflecting the effects of gun violence on American children. Offering the participants a single pair of scissors and 40 pairs of porcelain baby shoes hanging from ribbons, this work challenges our preconceived notions of societal expectations around complicity and gun violence solutions. The participants are given no instructions, just offered the scissors after they are removed from a locked gun box while surrounded by the dangling baby shoes. Providing no instructions allows for limitless possibilities in participation and expansive capacity for imaginative solutions to this grave issue.