David Cross, Coal Strip-Mine, Wyoming, 1980

Working across performance, installation, video and photography, Cross has focused on the relationship between pleasure, the grotesque and the phobic. His small to large- scale performance/installation work has sought to incorporate and extend contemporary thinking in relation to participation, linking performance art with object-based environments. Often using his own body as a starting point, he employs a range of objects-many of which are inflatable- to draw audiences into potentially unexpected situations and dialogues.