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Durational Performance. Spring 2017-Present.

In the Spring of 2017, announced was an artistic intention to delete/deactivate all active social media platform accounts for an entire year. To prepare followers and myself for this proposed hiatus I posted a self portrait a day under the hashtag #aselfieadaykeepstheinsecuritiesaway on Instagram for an entire month leading up to the start of the performance. In the portraiture posts the filter used to modify the images was intentionally exposed in the caption.

The performance started at: 12 A.M. on March 6, 2017.

On March 6, 2018 I intended to perform a piece on the findings of this experience. On this date, instead I found noteworthy resistance to return to the social media stream. With reduced outside influence and pressure, I listened to the resistance.

What was initially framed as a year long endurance performance has become a revised framework for living a life more connected to the present moment.

A meditation on the phenomenon of "social media" as rooted in cultural - social - community development + communication and notions of privacy + self-esteem.

A rebellion against neoliberal capitalism and data surveillance.

Materials: Instagram. iphone. self.