21st August 2021 at The Ugly Duck, London

In 1970, for a durational performance, I set up a mirror and whoever
came in the door could immediately see me in reflection and likewise I
could see them. We communicated only through our reflections. The
philosopher Michel Foucault spoke about the concept of heterotopia to
describe spaces that are ‘other’: disturbing, intense, contradictory,
incompatible or transforming. He commented on the heterotopia of the
mirror as being a ‘placeless place’, simultaneously real, relating
with the real space surrounding it, and unreal, creating a virtual
image. For Acts of Intimacy I placed 10 mirrors in the space and for 10 hours these 10 ‘placeless’ places became my dwelling; an intimate and hyper real space in which I connected with whomever and whatever entered that frame. The fact that a sledgehammer belonging to another performer was in the space spontaneously triggered the final action of smashing all 10 mirrors