By My/Our Own Admission

Description:
1. By My Own Admission (NYC 2016): In a staged performance with a live audience, artist Dillon de Give and his 2-year-old son collaborate in an attempt to recreate a typical going-to-bed routine, possibly with the child going to sleep.

2. By Our Own Admission (Toronto 2017): de Give invites local parents and caretakers to share the details of their bedtime routines in front of a live audience, allowing for catharsis, information sharing, and a sense of community to develop.

Exhibition information:
Installation and performance, 2016.
Part of The Let Down Reflex curated by Amber Berson and Juliana Driever at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NY.

Performance and photo stack, 2017
Part of Take Care at MiST Theatre and the Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Missassauga.

Writing:

• Encountering Performing (M)Others: Feminist Maternal Practice in Contemporary Performance by Lena Šimić, Contemporary Theatre Review, Volume 28, 2018 - Issue 3

• The Politics of Being a Parent in the Art World by Gregory Sholette, Hyperallergic.

• On the Parent-Shaped Hole in the Art World by Maibritt Borgen, Canadian Art

• Put the Mom in MoMA by Lieneke Hulshof, Mister Motley (Dutch language)

Artist writing:

• Column on m/other voices on The Letdown Reflex show

• Theatrical playbill. Download

Additional images:
Performance documentation gallery