In addition to providing a playful look at practicality and awkward tensions at the table, "Trouble and Strife" was followed up with an investigation of gender roles as analyzed by several critical theorists, including Gayle Rubin, Levi-Strauss and Althusser.

Due to the location of fasteners on the back, a third party is required to let the diners both in and out of the piece. Equally constrained, the participants are placed in gender specific seats. Regardless of their sex and relationship, the piece plays with traditional gender roles and orientation as enforced today.

"Trouble and Strife" was part of a performance for the opening of Dine On Design, at Monkeytown, Williamsburg, NY this May (see SHOWS/PRESS for details).