Experimental Sound Studio: Project Space, February 2009
This was a performance, drawing session, and photo shoot to bridge the disciplines of art and dressmaking through the act of modeling. To develop this piece, I investigated the idea of being tarred and feathered, the alchemical symbol of the blackened mirror, and butoh performance images. The visual narrative took on a textural layer with writer Sara Levine's prose poem "In Which the Seamstress Speaks." I am continually interested in how personal identity can be shaped through material interactions, and enjoy rearranging fairy tale outcomes to escape set orders.
The result of this project is a series of hand made look books for RedShift, one of which is in The Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection.
There's a fine line between self-reflection and self-voyeurism.
This was a performance, drawing session, and photo shoot to bridge the disciplines of art and dressmaking through the act of modeling. To develop this piece, I investigated the idea of being tarred and feathered, the alchemical symbol of the blackened mirror, and butoh performance images. The visual narrative took on a textural layer with writer Sara Levine's prose poem "In Which the Seamstress Speaks." I am continually interested in how personal identity can be shaped through material interactions, and enjoy rearranging fairy tale outcomes to escape set orders.
The result of this project is a series of hand made look books for RedShift, one of which is in The Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection.
There's a fine line between self-reflection and self-voyeurism.
Look beyond the red dotted swatch for details...
See more photos here
A poem by Paul Shullenberger in response to "In Ridicule Of Spectacle"
party hat central calling
elusive tassels’ nonesuch
numinous graffiti hotline:
does a stitch in time throw
clocks out of whack?
wear your words lightly
if they float you’re there
grains of sand are feathers
through foo stints as hair
stutter-dance with doodles
peripherally lensed
landscape’s scalp massage it
grab knead twang the air
--for kristin mariani
Many thanks to Carol McCurdy, Ella Stauber, David Ettinger, Sara Levine, Adam Vida, and Alex Inglizian
See more photos here
A poem by Paul Shullenberger in response to "In Ridicule Of Spectacle"
party hat central calling
elusive tassels’ nonesuch
numinous graffiti hotline:
does a stitch in time throw
clocks out of whack?
wear your words lightly
if they float you’re there
grains of sand are feathers
through foo stints as hair
stutter-dance with doodles
peripherally lensed
landscape’s scalp massage it
grab knead twang the air
--for kristin mariani
Many thanks to Carol McCurdy, Ella Stauber, David Ettinger, Sara Levine, Adam Vida, and Alex Inglizian
