To follow up on Susan’s illuminating discussion of how issues of the natural world are being explored by many of you I’d like to center on how issues of identity and stereotypes are being engaged on losingyourself.com.
Proliferating Selves
Susan Lee Chun and Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum complicate the notion of a stable, singular “self” in their work [...]
Detail of ‘Childhood ‘memory station’ in Secret Museum of Mankind Installation
This piece was part of the installation Secret Museum Of Mankind where I created my own Natural History Museum, which included different ‘memory stations’: that represented my genetic past, childhood and future.
Polyphony “Polyphony”, staged in an abandoned theatre, traces the path of a performer endlessly traversing on and off the stage. Her “act” consists solely of an encore, and her song is in fact a rising high-pitched scream. A call to arms, as the flowers thrown in admiration seem to rise up in [...]
Once Upon is an installation that contemporizes fairy tales and myths. Its purpose is to ask the question, do we still believe in the mythical ideal woman? Is she a damsel in distress? A mythical creature? A witch? Is her purpose pleasing her husband and bearing children? The sculptures of women I created represent individual [...]
Dear All,
It’s been illuminating to see the themes emerge among the posted works. Some of the connections appeared immediately to us, while others have developed more slowly and at times, imperceptibly. There are most likely others that we’ve not yet identified. In any case, it is making for some lively curatorial conversations. What follows are [...]
Dear Artists,
Writing to say that we’re thrilled about your engagement with this site. Thank you for presenting your work here, and thank you, too, for continuing to share the opportunity with your own artist networks.
We’re considering some of the themes that have emerged—the significance of nature, ritual, women’s work, relationships, stereotypes and sexuality, among them—as [...]
Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of [...]
My performances, videos and sculptures create a world populated by a masked and costumed cast that re-interprets my own image in the form of popular cultural icons. My characters struggle with each other and the audience through activities that combine violence and overt sexuality with slapstick physical humor. I embody an ever-changing cast that includes [...]
These photographs document a private ritual in which I adorn my body with line drawings and then display my adorned body to the camera as a re-enactment of the identity formation process.
This ritual mimics the daily grooming and attention to appearance that is tightly woven into a woman’s self image. At the same time, [...]
My work is about the ways people communicate.
My work is about the obsession with affirming one’s own existence.
My work is about me.
I want to take great personal risks in the pursuit of personal transformation.
I want my work to be the evidence of this transformation.
I want my work to be generous.
I want my work to bring [...]