La Toilette

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



La Toilette, 2018, places a focus on the operations that generate the concrete or habitual use of sites for precarious work, to question relations of domination. The performance enacts squatting, a physical position in which a person occupies a space meant for someone, or something else. In response to the material conditions of this act, La Toilette alludes to the spatial order of a homeless woman’s nightly bath in her car, which buttresses her daytime work shift. The performance speaks to the contradiction of maintaining regular employment, while not being able to satisfy the human need to have shelter, food, or rest, and the formalizations that occur in our society that render those needs invalid to particular individuals. The choreography is performed while holding a baby wipe in one hand, suggesting a washing of her face and arm.