No Wet MaterialsNo Wet Materials On Thursday, 16 November 2017, I salivated into 10 mL viles for two hours at RISD Museum’s Third Thursday event, filling 22 vials during that time. On Monday, 2 October 2017, I experienced excessive force by Providence police during which I was charged with assault of two police officers (the “assault weapon” being my saliva) and was jailed for a night. No Wet Materials thinks about methods of controlling the body and its “materials,” inside and outside the museum, drawing relationships between policing, legal statutes, and museum rules governing “Wet Materials.” The action serves to contain/restrict/police my own body’s “wet materials” — considered a hazard to both the museum’s gallery spaces and to the Providence police — while simultaneously “stockpiling” the “weapon” of my saliva. In this way, I attempt to occupy overlapping spaces of submission and rebellion. Performance History: Performed 16 November 2017 |  No Wet Materials |  No Wet Materials |  No Wet Materials |