Please Click Here to Watch Select Excerpts from “The Amber Doll Project” (1min)
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 [...]
Please Click Here to Watch Select Excerpts from “The Feminism? Project” (1min)
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, [...]
Devour captures the actions of three women as they pass an orange without the use of their hands. The work evokes female sensuality and references Edvard Munch’s vampiric images.
My video works explore the nature of female identity, eroticism, and hysteria. The videos are montages of performative actions and symbolic images that address the complex relationship [...]