The Bag Inside the Boxed Wine
Devised through processual research surrounding notions of artworld ‘care’, and modes of self-positioning and performativity, alongside experiments in writing through institutional critique and experimental modes of address, influenced by work such as Lynne Tillman’s ‘Madame Realism’, The Bag Inside the Boxed Wine (2025) is a performative video work drawn from an essay of the same name. The essay, written in 2024, loosely traced the experience of drinking at exhibition openings, and was also heavily influenced by the work of Caitlin Merrett King, Chris Kraus, and Eileen Myles.
Extract:
There is a crinkly mess inside this structure. You need to pry it open from the side with your bare hands and squeeze its plastic sac; coax it to stream red around your wrists, sticky forearms, all to pool in a quarter-filled cup. Shame may not be in short supply tonight, but it’s only the coolest of uninterested eyes that bat a lash at you, on your knees by the paint-splattered trestle table, peering up the spout of this cardboard container’s strange two-finger-tap contraption.
This work acted as a largely self-facing experiment in moving the essay format into something completely separate, as well as an effort to untangle some of my own uncertainties surrounding self-placement and documented performance. It was also an attempt to reintegrate play, and humour, into my practice, and to rethink my relationship with materiality and object.
