Shows!

Hi Everyone,

Things have been VERY busy lately, but in a great way. I have work out at several shows right now and some other opportunities have come available to me as well. I can hardly keep up!





























Here is an electronic postcard for the show I am in at the Luke and Eloy Gallery in Pittsburg, PA. Running from May 2nd until June 6th. I wish I could be there, but I'm still in school at that time, so I'm running around trying to finish my last piece before classes end.

I had some photographs up in a show at the Tool Shed in Milwaukee, which allowed the first year graduate students to put up work for the end of our first year. Because of the type of venue it is, we had a show called "Inter Course," which was curated to show work that all related to the body in some way. I took an exhibitionist approach, and photographed my pieces on my own body and showed the images. I was a little nervous at first, but it was very freeing! Thanks again Anna for the awesome photoshoot.

I also have a piece in Port Moody Wearable Art Awards - my first international show! I am very excited to be in my first international show, and that it is in Canada is very exciting to me as well. I wish I could be there as well for the fashion show, so I could see my garment go down the runway, but hopefully there will be images taken and I can find them online somewhere.

I also did this great performance this weekend. It totally relates to what I have been working on lately. I don't believe this is the appropriate time or place to reveal all the thought behind the piece, however I do have specific intentions. Also, it still isn't perfect..I still have a few things I want to do with it. Hopefully I can re stage it another time. Talk about working through the PAIN though..I crawled around on this cement floor for three days, and didn't really think about the physical element so much, but it definitely added to the piece. Here are a few quick stills.







































































The text reads:

I claim to be where I am
and I am not

I am not where you are either
I am not remembered

All I am
Is my love for you

Humiliated

Response to Craft Talk

I did this amazing performance workshop with interactive artist, Jefferson Pinder on April 3rd at UWM. I blogged a little more detail about it on my other required blog for my performance class, Objectified Bodies. Before the workshop, Jefferson had us think about a video we found on you tube that described our personality, so of course, I picked the Craft Talk video I discussed below, because I think even though it is kind of silly, it begins a conversation about the argument of art vs craft, which I am heavily interested in. Also, because it was silly, I thought it would set the tone for a great day, which it did, we had a great group.

We talked about you tube in general, and its role in the artworld, art or not? It was an interesting conversation, and what it really made me think about is the fact that all mediums are having these conversations now. We all want to break out of these titles that bind us in one specific way of thinking. Those invisible lines that separate our departments and medium are so gone! Lovely to think that our children won't deal with these same separations one day, it will all just be art. Amazing to think that the same concepts that Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus starting investigating back in 1920's Germany are just now starting to be actualized.

So, we were required to make a short film responding to our initial inspiration video, which I did, and it was super silly. My limitation was time, for I only had about 10 minutes to make a 5 minute video, which ended up being a minute and a half. I tried to do the same thing that a lot of crafters do, which is find whatever you have lying around and make something amazing out of it. All those materials were lying around in my studio, and my attempt to make a sweater out of them is definitely not as nice as the Craft Talk video, but within a time constraint, I think I get my point across. I was really trying to carry over the comedy of the Craft Talk video, and although I had no time for edits, I hope that my message came through.

Here is just my video:





Here is a link to all of the videos, which all came from different inspirations.

Thanks again Jefferson! It was a great day.