ABSTRACT
Drop in the Ocean (2013–2018) is a six-day walking performance in six widening, concentric circles. Carrying water with a yoke and buckets, I invite the strangers I meet to make a wish, submerging their hand in the water of one bucket to take a stone; holding it in their wet hand while I ask them questions about their sense-memories of water. Drawing both from the critical literature and participant feedback, here I reflect on the making-performing of this work as a rite of passage for an activist performance-maker, embracing the uncertain efficacy of a sensory-affective encounter.
