The 11th edition of Live Art for Children is coming to an end at Arken Museum of Contemporary Art under the theme Staged Identities in the Age of Social Media . Last weekend, international artists presented cosmetic surgery on a beloved American children’s doll and sent us into a frenzy with a harrowing TikTok livestream.
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Saturday, November 23 and Sunday, November 24, 2024, I will perform Raggedy Ann to Real Doll with Tim Lagasse at the Arken Museum of Contemporary Art. Real Doll is an immersive body horror experience in which one of America’s most beloved dolls will go under the knife. Witness-participants can step into the role of nurse, observing or aiding in the operating room as they wish.
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If you happen to be in Copenhagen on November 21, from 5pm to 8pm, please join me for FRIISLAND LIVE: Rosie Gibbens (UK), Jonas Kjeldgaard Sørensen (DK) and Marsian De Lellis (US), which offers vernissage, performances and a nice hot soup.
Continue reading “FRIISLAND LIVE!”The Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival published one of my essays on Book of Mountains and Seas, an opera composed by Huang Ruo with puppetry by Basil Twist. Read Elemental Animisim: (De)/Constructing the World in the festival archives.
In April, The Puppetry Journal printed a review of Object of Her Affection by Marissa Fenley as part of its coverage of the Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival.
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In a review of Object of Her Affection at the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, Ann Boland wrote on her blog, that the performance was “weird, amazing, funny, endearing, way over-the-top”.
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The Fall 2021 Edition of The Puppetry Journal profiled the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, including Object of Her Affection, which performed as part of the festival.
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From September 20th-29th, 2019, a photograph from Model Killer will be part of American Puppetry Today, The Photography of Richard Termine in Charleville-Mézières, France.
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On March 29, 2019, 24700, News from California Institute of the Arts featured my D+R Residency at Automata for Model Killer in their blog article by Katie Dunham.
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On June 16th + 17th, I presented an initial scene from Model Killer: Giant Crimes & Tiny Cover-Ups, as an artist-in-residence at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center at the culmination of the National Puppetry Conference. Model Killer is a morbid comedy centered on Vivian Nutt, a disgruntled dollhouse maker turned investigator. Vivian builds dioramas of unsolved murders, only for it to be revealed that she is a serial killer. In Model Killer, I am creating a universe in which I invite the viewer to reconsider female serial killers, the historically feminine craft of miniatures, and murder as entertainment.
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