‘Toothless’ is a performative audio and sculptural installation. The work consists of a 20-minute 3-channel audio piece, combining storytelling and field recordings, that tells 10 interwoven narratives of four instances of people getting hit in the head – from a hometown baseball myth, to a journalist’s attempt to hit George W. Bush with a shoe, to the police murder of a Boston student with a ‘less-lethal’ projectile. The narrative explores a permeability of spaces created through performative and political violence. Characters, as well as sculptural materials, switch places with one another, are melted down and formed again, sadly hit their targets or sadly miss them, dissolve into silt or pile up outside the dugout. A riot, a demonstration, a wrestling match.
