Safety Procedures is a performance that unfolds primarily through a phone call between the performer and participants. The work examines the role of the phone in contemporary relationships, asking what kinds of intimacy, care, and connection are made possible—or impossible—through mediated communication. The work considers how relationships are formed and sustained through technology, while examining the often invisible protocols that determine when, how, and to whom we reveal ourselves. Moving between strangers and loved ones, distance and proximity, the performance asks what a phone call can hold that physical presence cannot, and what forms of connection remain just beyond its reach.

Cellular Connection

2026

with the assistance of Connor Nevitt