A THEATER OF COERCION

Coercion is "compulsion of a free agent"; I practice this as a way of making art.  The Theater of Coercion is a space whereby participants, without their knowledge or consent, are co-opted and become involved in the act of generating art.

II suffer from a nagging urge to make connections with and between other human beings. I am continually trolling my environment for ways to compel "free agents" to enter into my "theater," thereby connecting them to me. Art is the result.

This exploration into art as a social science and social experiment foregrounds the usually humdrum nature of an individual's experience, and, against this backdrop, forges a connection that is new, strange, and unsettling. This contact with another creates a dialogue and opens into a collective. I am consistent in my attempt to shed societies isolated loneliness. By making with others, we no longer walk nor act as strangers.