Untitled (If I can’t sleep at night is it because I am [excluded]), 2019

Performance. I hire Niza for one night and three afternoons to work the curtain door, only allowing cis-men to enter. No explanations are given, neither to the gallery who invited me to perform nor to the visitors, as to who gets in. A few *golden tickets* are offered, based only on Niza’s feel for it, and others are eventually invited to cross the threshold. The vast majority of rejected people wait outside very compliant, while their partners or friends get to enter the other room. Upon return, most men explain to those rejected that there wasn’t much to see inside, therefore they have not missed anything. A few men explain to those rejected, sometimes inquiring to Niza, that they must have missed the performance. Over the four days, only one man stepped back outside immediately upon realizing that the woman he had come to the gallery with had not made it in, realizing there were only men inside.