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Visiting hours under the covers

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2025

9 hour performance

Presented at the Emmanuel Gallery as part of Performance Art Week XIII

Image documentation by Erynn McConnell

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Visiting hours under the covers invites audience members to climb into bed with the artist & do…whatever they want. Instead of a doctor or nurse, the artist asks participants to play a temporary “care partner” role while visiting them under the covers in a hospital bed. Via this experimental & participatory performance, she asks “How have my early experiences of being ‘touched’ by medical professionals impacted the way I experience bodily intimacy today? Can my bodymind learn/relearn/unlearn how to distinguish between ‘clinical contact’ & physical intimacy that can be pleasurable?” Bernard hopes to discover new & unfamiliar relationships, narratives, & movements with each one-on-one interaction.

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Sixty Five Roses

Sixty Five Roses

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2015

Ink & acrylic on paper

A series of sixty-five works

Video documentation by Brighton Linge

Image documentation by MG Bernard

Revised: 4/15/24; 5/12/24; 5/16/24

Exhibitions

2015: Sixty-Five Roses Challenge, Mid-City Theater, New Orleans, LA  

2015: Sixty-Five Roses for Cystic Fibrosis, Amanda Sibley Gallery, New Orleans, LA

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A two-month long project to raise awareness for cystic fibrosis. All funds earned from artwork sales were donated to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 

Making the invisible visible

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