For Date Rape: The American Classic, frequent collaborator, Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea and I wrote, performed in and directed an ensemble cast. In Date Rape, extra-terrestrials abduct K-mart shoppers to create a hybrid species, the new breed. We presented Date Rape at Poop Studios, located in Wicker Park’s historic Flat Iron building. Proceeds benefitted the Twin Cities AIDS ride.
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On April 17th, 1997, I performed The King of Pop’s New Clothes in the Columbus Drive Performance Space at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In King of Pop’s New Clothes, a reclusive pops star’s drug-fueled attempts at being loved through personal reinvention go horribly wrong when his public and private lives collide. The King of Pop’s New Clothes existed as both a live performance with projected video art and as a video art piece that screened at Randolph Street Gallery.
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In the spring of 1997, I created The Silver Room, an installation for Fausto Ferños’ Wig Show, at Gallery 2 in the south loop of Chicago. In this collaboration, I created a silver room-sized environment. Stationed on an alter like a metallic deity, I modeled one of Ferños’ aluminum foil wigs and blew bubbles and lit sparklers over viewers.
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On March 23rd, 1997, Kathleen O’Shea and I collaborated on Feet an interactive performance-installation at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago in which we performed alternative spa treatments on viewers. Feet was as part of Faeries to the Rescue, organized by the Chicago Radical Faerie Circle to support Randolph Street Gallery, an artist run space.
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In May, 1996 I had a photographic slides from the Monster Series featured in 2.72%, an exhibition at Gallery X at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition ran from May 9th-19th, 1996.
On April 7, 1996, I exhibited Inner Monster for Fresh, a day-long exhibition at N.A.M.E. Gallery. Inner Monster was a stop-motion self portrait with animated mud mask and hair created on a super-8 camera and displayed as a repeating single channel video installation
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