SERIES: DEMARCATION | Durational Performance
Demarcation emerged from the daily scrubbing of a 12 x 12 inch square foot of the studio floor, transforming maintenance into performance and situating the studio itself as grid, canvas, and discipline. In dialogue with Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Agnes Martin, and Eleanor Antin, the piece reflects on labor, repetition, and solitude. Echoing Antin’s Carving (1972) and McDermott’s earlier Becoming Beyoncé (2014), the work interrogates measurement, gendered embodiment, and the economics of self-display.
