means I chose not to be paid; 
means I got paid a relatively small amount of money, but it was what the venue/situation could afford and I did it for different reasons than money; 
This project was a commission for Festival Futures at Mutek Montreal in 2024 curated by Maurice Jones. In this 90 minute performance I became my 66 year old self, a rough working class woman who works at The Festival of Zero Compromise in the year 2048. In this session, I told stories from the Festival that was built without exploitation or extraction. The performance incorporated talks by CRIP RAVE and San Farafina from Club Sagacité, whose work today prefigures a less exploitative, exclusive and careless festival culture. If there are still festivals in the year 2048, which is doubtful given current climate predictions, we will meet there. Visitors to Mutek were invited to purchase a t-shirt which commits wearers to help ensure that the festival takes place 24 years from now.
Can you imagine what the quirky texture of your pickup-lines and the very fine quality of your dance floor spine flexing would be, if you knew that all the people around you were taken care of? And that their care wasn’t contingent on the pain or exploitation of someone(s) with less power or resources?
We can! Once a year, in an act of carefully coordinated nervous system synchronization, tens of thousands of people gather in basketball courts, parking lots, public parks and other pre-existing venues around the world to sweat, bubble, and groove at the world’s first completely distributed party: The Festival of Zero Compromise.
You can leave your disappointment and guilt for the ways that racial capitalism and imperialism has broken us at the door! Slither out of your shell and visit this inversion of Black Rock Metropolis and all its fast food phallic capitalist fantasies. We invite you and all of your hidden parts to enjoy a playful collective immersion in an atmosphere built upon zero exploitation or extraction. From the way we don’t source the toilet paper, to the way we distribute the work and inter-communicate, we work (we mean play) with what is real, what is needed, and with who and what has been ignored or forgotten.