Year Long Performance

A Live Performance Work
31 Photographs in 31 Days
Collaboration with Patricia Brace 2021
For Year Long Performance, performance artist Patricia Brace wears her go-to performance art uniform, documenting daily movement gestures in landscape. Additionally, through this work Brace hopes to intimately connect her visual art practice with her daily life.

Patricia Brace (Waterboro, Maine) is a performance artist whose work addresses the relationship between intersectional feminism and socio-politics through the use of dance, new media, and installation. Brace currently teaches at Maine College of Art and University of Maine, Augusta. She is the recipient of the Professional Development Grant, Giza Daniels Endesha Award, the Ray Stark Film Prize, and the Leon Golub Scholarship. Brace is the Co-founder of Sine Gallery & GROUNDWORK retreat.

For this piece, Aishing took a series of photographs depicting a "gestural landscape performance." These images were made by dancing or moving in exaggerated poses (like in a gesture drawing) while in nature. This could be in the woods, on the beach, or in another location where buildings were not visible. The photos were taken from a distance so that the Aishling's entire body is visible. Aishling wore a plain, all white outfit. This process was repeated again and again during the month of May 2021, resulting in 31 individual photos.
The outfit started 10 years ago with my interest in early minimalist, dance-based performances and has evolved to symbolize women’s solidarity and the sacred transfer of life into death.
- Patricia Brace