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 [...]
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 [...]
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In 2007, I commissioned the production of a life-like sex doll, a RealDoll, made of a posable PVC skeleton and silicone flesh, in my exact likeness. My doll, Amber Doll, began as a Styrofoam print-out of a digital scan of my head. Her [...]
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Starting with sorority sisters and ending with her own mother, Amber Hawk Swanson scripts her ten videos from “The Feminism? Project” from edited interviews with a variety of women. Their original responses to the topic of feminism range from naïve surprise to composed discourse, [...]
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The texts used in Renetta Sitoy’s animated video The Truth about Boys and Girls were collected by typing the following queries into Google: “girls like to,” “boys like to,” and “boys and girls like.” While the “girls like to” search mostly generated negative responses relating to issues of self-esteem and sexual [...]
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) [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]