Constance (Connie) Hockaday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And so they were all sort of in this floating landscape together, experiencing these performances inside the halls of boats.
That's sort of like a taste of the waterworks.
I've also moved into a few other spaces like really around this idea of preparedness, American ideas of survival, disaster in the future.
Those were installations usually in inside art spaces at the Headland Center for the Arts.
And that kind of veers into what I'm working on right now, which I call Disaster Furniture Showroom.
Disaster Furniture Showroom is a furniture store on the street and you go inside and it's only finely crafted furniture that is responding to people's ideas or fears about the coming future.
For me, that's about overriding our normalcy bias.
We have a normalcy bias that everything is normal and it's really hard for us to conceptually wrap our heads around this slow motion disaster of climate change.
And oftentimes it takes like practice or physical signals to get us out of our normalcy bias, which is why we do things like fire drills.
And so I want to create furniture for people's homes that's like a disaster preparedness side table, like a headboard that holds the ceiling up in case of an earthquake, you know, like that type of thing.
And I imagine it being like maybe even slightly like an ASMR sort of thing.
sensual experience of like peace and calm that you walk into.
And then the salespeople are performers that are bringing you into this conversation about what you fear about the future and how you're responding to that fear so that you're not just stuck in this loop of like laying in your bed at night with that anxiety about what's going to happen, what's going to happen, but never actually taking any action towards it.
Yeah, totally.
In some ways, our identity, there is also sort of a set of ready-made identities on the wall, masks that we grab and we put on and we're like, oh, I'm this option.
I'm that option.
Right.
And those masks show up in all parts of our lives.
Right.
in our on our sexualities and in our gender expressions in the way we show up as parents in the way we show up as leaders as neighbors like whatever we we choose or we are attached whether we realize or not to certain identities or certain masks and sometimes that stuff gets mixed up
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