The Stonewall Inn, site of the liminal 1969 Stonewall Rebellion, was a dance bar. Such places concretize dreams and consequences of queer-dom in the 20th century and beyond (see Pulse slaughter, 2016). Stonewall itself is modeled here based on first person accounts of the iconic bar, where against the full-moon early morning hours of June 28, 1969, queers raged against oppression. They threw pennies, bricks, beer bottles, a trash-can, and a parking meter. In the video they, we, and those tools of rebellion dance, affirming that past, present & future, celebration and protest, are not mutually exclusive.

It's Stonewall in My Navel

Part of a series of works that use historically noted tools of rebellion as foils to look at affect in relation to resistance, property, space, waste, attention, and currency. A fountain that doubles as a distressed wishing well and a murky pond with active life feature in the non-linear tale of hope and expectation.