2014
Video triptych on cat tree sculpture
Video= Mashup of beloved, famous Youtube cryers who appear randomly on three screens, creating a cacophony of crying sounds.
2008-2009
Bad Waitress is an ongoing geurrilla waitressing project that was inspired by my 15 plus years of waitressing and catering experience. The unsanctioned performances are made possible by restaurants that have outdoor seating accessible to high foot traffic areas, usually near the fiscal centers of neighborhoods. During this performance, the moment that the customer perceives that there is something amiss, space is created for dialogue and play within the system of consumption.
2010
Acceleration Field is a happening that includes a sculptural element, performance, and installation by Elizabeth Folk, and a "crushed electronica and electro acoustic" piece by composer Ron Sedgwick. During the performance, three Area 51 inspired figures equipped with obsolete projector packs surround a quartz crystal and illuminate it with a mash up of glitchy google earth images. Movement artists inside of the crystal cause the images to gyrate, focus, and blur in response to the music and the movement of the images.
Performers: Brad Flint, Rachel Lindt, Kevin Marlis, Xuncu Morton, Katy McCarthy, Blair Suding, Brandon Wicks
2007
Video, sound and video installation
This project is an homage to Martha Rosler's Semiotics of the Kitchen, which humorously deconstructed the vocabulary of domesticity in the 1970s. For Martha, 2007 employs similar strategies to critically analyze the semiotics of female sexuality and reproductive health as they were awkwardly constructed and transmitted to the artist in Jr. High and Sr. High sex ed classes in the 1990s.
The installation consists of a girls locker room, scented daily with Teen Spirit, entered through a hallway illuminated by red florescent lighting. Each locker omits whispers of generic teenage gossip ("I heard she gave 3 different guys blow jobs under the bleachers Friday night", "Her mom is our cleaning lady", "My friend told me she takes anti-depressants"). The hallway enters into a cotton candy scented room filled with piles of panties, where viewers may sit on a locker room bench and view For Martha the video.
For Martha, 2007
2006, found objects, latex paint, wax, emesis basins
2007-2009, 2016
Ongoing cleaning interventions. Unexpected janitorial services with a twist.
2006, Mobile art gallery built on steel boat trailer
Context was created to both challenge and stimulate discourse about traditional methods of art exhibition and distribution. This mobile venue was accessible to a diversity of people including those who may not have the time or means to visit a traditional gallery or museum, and regular exhibition attendees. The meaning and value of the work (a show entitled In Through the Dog Door, which I curated from the graduate and faculty population of the Art Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder) changed as the location of the gallery changed.
The gallery has been donated to Imagine, an organization that employs developmentally disabled adults, and now serves as a traveling showcase for their ceramic works.
