Altar to Evicted Art was a site-specific performance installation about the displacement of artists in San Francisco who were being evicted from their homes and studios at a furious rate during the Dot Com boom. I created a miniature inside-out house made from three old doors lined on the outside with shelves. Raw materials, precious and intricate ephemera that might normally be on the inside of an artist’s home were meticulously arranged on the outside. I appeared as the ghost of an artist inside the “house” painting on the window panes until I became invisible. I interacted with the audience from inside the piece and then occasionally would emerge to create a ritual spectacle of displacement.

Wood doors with shelves, found objects, rope, lotus leaves
July, 2000
Dada Festival
SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco, Ca
7’x6’x6’