With What I Can Stuff in My Pants (2009)
With What I Can Stuff in my Pants is a looped two-channel video installation playing on the idea that Canadian nation-building is a self-aggrandizing white masculine project. The performances took place at Queen’s Park, Ontario’s Legislative Building in Toronto. On one screen, I perform the adoring female subject by lustfully rubbing myself against the statue of the first Canadian Prime Minister and the supposed Founding Father of Canada, John A. MacDonald. On the next screen, I claim my plot of land in front of Queen’s Park by driving a small Canadian flag into the ground then digging up the soil around it and putting it in my pants. I ridicule nationalism as inherently patriarchal and reframe the supposed founding of Canada by white Europeans as an act of thievery.