Noelle Mason
July 26, 2009
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The performance was documented and combined with additional footage for the video short. Intimate Distance/ Adulterer honestly admits to the ethical failures that are part of being human. Prince describes the unguarded pleasure of an affair and the painful destruction of her marriage without allowing for an easy moral solution.
“I have never heard of anything [...]
Pipecleaner, 2007
“3D-Pipes,” a kitschy late-90s Microsoft screensaver is the lo-fi setting for a quirky post-feminist intervention. Wearing a dress made out of cleaning gloves, a pole dancer invades the screensaver’s maze of pipes. Her spins, gyrations, and efforts to climb and clean the pipes become absurd when reduced to byte-sized edits that mimic the original [...]
Gathered beech leaves,
sewn together like faire wings,
celebrate the sweet nectar of life.
At the end of winter, these golden leaves are the first glimmer of the new cycle to come;
the last shimmers still clinging to their branches in the now bare forest.
Each leaf was collected individually from a stand of beech trees,
after first [...]
As a child I identified with certain storybook characters,
I’d imagine being in their place, living my life through theirs somehow.
On hearing “The Three Bears” story,
I identified with the bears and wanted to live in their home,
and be apart of their family.
‘the three bears’ house’ is a pink quilted yurt-like structure
with a spacious circular interior similar [...]
Monstrous Feminine in Mexico is a performance that took place in Mexico in June 2009, at the Coba Mayan jungle ruins and in Kokay (which means “fireflies” in Mayan language) in place called the Xpu Ha Jungle. I created a hand sewn, hand-dyed costume using WWII fabric straps/bandages and gold and silver chains, as a [...]
In “evaluTEC,” Janet Wright, a character representing evaluTEC, a self-help company based on the concept of self-evaluation for self-betterment, sits at a roadside stand waiting for interaction. She connects with passersby by first offering them a complimentary self-evaluation to help them through times of change. Then, she asks the participant to fill out an evaluation [...]
This image captures a performance enacted with studio-based drawing, Woods (Rabun, GA) 2009. The drawing itself is an energetic impression of the woods of Rabun, Georgia, a depiction of how my body remembers a site. When in the woods, I often perform private intimate rituals of embedding my body within the landscape to [...]
The merging of all three “Suz”, Sue, Su, and Sioux (representative of three alter-egos symptomatic of the polarizing impacts of race and identity politics) into a single entity is an attempt to re-define the self, using tactics familiar to how commercial and corporate industries re- brand themselves or form a new authentic identity. The Suz, [...]
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.