The project is simple. I go to bars and approach men I don’t know. I ask if I can literally throw myself at them. Then I ask if I can take a picture of that moment. The men are picked based on their size; on the possibility that they can handle having 135 pounds come hurtling through the air. In other words, I pick men who I think can take a hit . The resulting pictures show me in mid-air with my arms stretched towards the person who might catch me. I am, at that moment, part projectile and part foolish romantic. These images are documents of a hopeful and violent gesture, a demand that the possibility of a connection exist. The men often look terrified or at least slightly surprised. My role as aggressor is clear and I think of my leaps as feminist acts that acknowledge a basic desire for contact.

To date, there have been no major injuries.

I was raised in small towns in the southwest where I spent a lot of time at rodeos. I won a few ribbons and once sold a sheep for a decent price. I was formally educated at The University of Arizona, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the Fine Arts Work Center. The time spent at those institutions increased my unabashed interest in the cliché and the literal as well my often misguided attempts at making authentic connections. In a few months, I will be moving to Los Angeles and I am looking forward to making more artwork about sunsets, romance, and frustration.

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2-D, Performance by LillyM

Nuclear Family Series
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Season’s Greetings ‘04, 2004, 11″ x 8.5″, inkjet print
Nuclear Family is a photographic series of my husband and myself posing as a young married couple in suburbia with an imaginary silhouetted baby. I lived most of my life in urban settings. In the second year of the marriage, [...]

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2-D, Performance by Yoon Cho

A Short History: Starring Asme as Herself / animation / 1min:36sec / 2007
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pamela phatsimo sunstrum invents an alter ego named Asme who embodies a notion that multiple, alternate or hybrid identities can emerge through journeying, travel and other processes of (dis)location. In collages, drawings, experimental animations and performance, the many [...]

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2-D, Performance by PamelaS

No Place is a fictional future constructed for the investigation of human possibilities and impossibilities: configurations of biology, sociality, race, class, sexuality, and the environment designed as reflections on human life and its future. The name of the place is derived from the English word, “utopia,” coined by Thomas More from the Greek “no” (ou) [...]

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Installation, Performance, Video by SayaW

 
 
 
 
 
Jessica Westbrook is an artist working with photography, video, motion, semiotics, language, and information design. Her projects explore desire, cues, cultural artifacts, and contradictory sensations that vacillate between fortune and catastrophe. Increasingly semantic in nature and modular in form, she considers her work a section of visual language culled from a complex matrix of assets, [...]

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2-D, Video by JessicaW

“Buffy Summers #2″ (2007). 15 x 22 inches. Cross-stitched Embroidery
“Everybody Hurts” , a series of cross-stitched embroideries based on television screencaptures, explores mediated emotion. TV shows are contemporary myths, which help us to define who we are, individually and in relation to our culture. Cross-stitching a single moment from a time-based medium is an act [...]

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2-D by StaciaY

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I am interested in the process of creating identity and the ephemeral human nature that is constantly evolving and changing. My themes focus on the loss of and search for identity, the conflicts that occur when building a new identity, and conforming to social surroundings. The performance captured in my work is the result of [...]

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3-D, Installation, Performance, Sculpture, Video by Yoon Cho

Townhouse Trilogy, 2008
Townhouse Trilogy is 3 videos, 3 drawings and 3 color prints: Spellchecker, Impostor, and Walking With Coffee. It is situated in and around a stylized version of a vintage 1973 Barbie Townhouse, a triple-decker diorama-like dollhouse with fabulously over-the-top trompe l’oeil backdrops. I’ve been interested in how space and interiority function emotionally and [...]

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2-D, Video by Jenifer W

Please meet the brilliant Filipinas behind the new Professional BridesMaid business, “Always A Bridesmaid Never A Bride™”! This trio of inspiring lady entrepreneurs are revolutionizing the wedding industry from the Outside-In! “Always A Bridesmaid Never A Bride™ (AABNAB™)” has shown how a successful business can be built upon gender, race and sexuality for people [...]

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Performance, Video by Jenifer W

“We Have a Right to Be Angry” (2008)
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Using strategies of accumulation, collection, appropriation and juxtaposition, I explore the emotional and existential significance of mediated culture.
In this fanvid, I demonstrate that individualized meanings can be made from mass-media culture. I appropriate footage from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xena: Warrior Princess, and Charmed. It [...]

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Video by StaciaY