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Creation Date
5-26-2023
Description
Materials: Durational performance with artists body, MDF, needles, paint, expanding foam, blood, shrink wrap, hair, graphite, estradiol valerate, paper, saliva, chalk, and steel.
Demensions: Variable
Project advisor: Rob Neilson
Year of graduation: 2023
Medium
Performance
Medium
Installation
Rights
Copyright for this work is held by the artist.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
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Artist Statement
Personal Performance Piece is a one-hour durational performance where I complete mundane tasks—such as administering my estrogen injection, calling my doctor, and eating a meal—inside of an enclosure made from shrink-wrap. My artistic practice centers around my changing, transexual body, and my work blurs the line between body and art. With everything I make, I explore trans ontology through raw imagery, humor, and a skepticism about the value of subtlety. Personal Performance Piece was made in conversation with works by artists like Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cassils, and Doreen Garner, and it explores—and makes fun of—the commodification of queer bodies.