My naked body was placed at the center of the gallery space and slowly, but meticulously forced into a metal wire dress. The audience entered the performance to a soundtrack that was created using “let’s get pretty” as a module in a loop-based experimental piece. As they stood around me, two assistants began to fit me with the dress made of metal thread, which were woven to shape and immobilize my body, as well as rearrange my body posture. The metal threads were then fixed to the gallery walls using hammers, screws, and screw drivers giving the performance space an industrial element. At the conclusion of the performance, my body was deformed and imprisoned by the metal web which traversed the center of the gallery, through the audience space, and terminating at the gallery walls. Through this process, the audience found themselves trapped within the web of the performance, both literally and figuratively.
