Nine Derricott and I have begun our second collaborative performance project. Creating 2 cubes of solid concrete in our respective body weights, we plan to pull one another's weight around for as long as we can, documenting the performance with photography, film and the relics left behind (chips of concrete, plans, wooden moulds etc.). The work emanates experiences of personal burden, isolation periods of depression and the relationships and coping mechanisms formed as a result. The work also explores ideas of awkwardness, inconvenience and public interaction which I have been concerned with throughout my practice (for example in Exodus (Taking the Toaster for a Walk), 2014). In terms of critical links, I have looked to other demonstrations of burden and public awkwardness - Francis Alÿs' Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing (pushing a large block of ice until it melts), Gabriel Orozco's Yielding Stone (rolling a ball of plasticine in his own bodyweight, picking up detritus on the way), William Pope. L's Tompkins Park Crawl (crawling on the pavement holding a potted flower) and, in Greek mythology, Sisyphus' eternal struggle pushing a boulder up a mountain