PREPARATION(S) FOR A DINNER 2025-2026

March 27, 2026 in selected projects

In this residency and intervention at the ICA San José, the gallery is transformed into an evolving site of studying domestic labor and practising anticipation. Part of the Revolution is a Dinner Party series, the installation remains in a state of flux, guided by an absent hostess who communicates through manuals and announcements. Visitors encounter changing scenarios and instructions—announced by audio and posters—where simple acts of setting a table or preparing a meal are reframed as political and emotional gestures.

Medium: Installation, print, textile, audio, found objects, and community engagement.

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REVOLUTION IS A DINNER PARTY

March 27, 2026 in selected projects

This solo exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center’s Glass Gallery reclaims the domestic sphere as a site of political and social inquiry. By centering the table as a stage for both intimacy and diplomacy, the project bridges the personal and the political through site-specific installation and community programming. Drawing on the contrasting legacies of the mythological Circe and the historical Eleanor Roosevelt, the work uses the language of hosting to navigate the complexities of identity, memory and displacement. Through salvaged ceramics, archival fragments, and participatory sessions, the exhibition examines how everyday rituals—acts of gathering and sharing—can serve as catalysts for social connection.

Medium: Site-specific installation, salvaged ceramics, archival materials, textiles, performance, and participatory events.

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FIVE DOMESTIC ACTS

March 27, 2026 in selected projects

Five Domestic Acts transforms a private residential home into a site-specific inquiry on womanhood and domesticity. This immersive project unfolds across five distinct interventions, guiding the audience through insulation, video, sound, and performance. By reimagining the house as an active emotional landscape, the work blurs the line between inhabitant and observer, private and public.

The project is structured in five parts, focusing on three core acts: The Yellow Wallpaper (durational performance), The Wardrobe Archives (social practice and improv dance), and The Kitchen Diaries—a final act where the preparation of food is shared with the audience.

Credits:
Performances: Victoria Dombroski and Heather Arnett from KristinDamrow&Company, Jennifer Lee, Lauren Daniluk
Production: Lauren Daniluk
Hosting: Christine Eggy Rose
Culinary: Karen Chae, Nelly Capra
Photography: Kathy LaBarre

Medium: Site-specific immersive installation, social practice, performance, textiles, prints, found objects, audio, and communal table, edibles.

THE WARDROBE ARCHIVES

March 27, 2026 in public art and community

The Wardrobe Archives is a collection of objects and records contributed by women as part of a larger site-specific project, Five Domestic Acts, staged within a residential home. Each participant filled a standard box with items representing their interpretation of womanhood and domesticity—including ephemeral lists, confessional texts, personal letters, and objects of personal significance.

The archive is activated through an improvisational dance performance where the performer navigates the home to express the conflicting emotions inherent in the role of the female carer. By interrogating the domestic setting and these personal collections, the performance transforms the residential space—and the wardrobe in particular—into a site of research and inquiry into invisible labor and memory.

Performance by Heather Arnett (Kristin Damrow & Company). Full list of contributors available in the project documentation.

Medium: site- specific installation, found objects, and improv dance.

PLAT DU JOUR: A CULINARY ACTION

March 27, 2026 in selected projects

Plat Du Jour: A Culinary Action is an interdisciplinary dialogue between an artist, a writer, and a chef. The project explores the realities of home and female identity through the rituals of food and sustenance. Drawing from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1903 study, The Home: Its Work and Influence, the work examines domestic dynamics through the lens of the female homemaker.

In this installation, food functions as both a medium of labor and a catalyst for social connection. The multimedia exhibition integrates performative acts and live cooking, culminating in a communal dinner experience.

Medium: Installation, Video, Printed material, Edibles, Social Practice

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200 MAIN STREET

March 26, 2026 in public art and community

200 Main Street (an inventory of time and place), is a participatory community project that explores the collective meaning of "home." Residents of Los Altos contributed objects, photographs, and personal insights to shape a narrative of local identity and domestic life.

By integrating contemporary contributions with historical items and archival imagery from local museums, the project culminated in a 30-foot permanent photographic mural. Installed on a public wall in Los Altos, California, the composition transforms a city surface into a communal interior, blurring the lines between public space and private history.

200 Main Street, Los Altos, CA
Commissioned by Arts Los Altos
Funded by Los Altos Rotary Club