On September 1, 2002 – Novemver 1st, 2002, I exhibited Month of Meow at the Wayland Square Starbucks in Providence, Rhode Island. In Month of Meow, I took a Polaroid of my cat, Meow Meow every day in the fall of 2000 in Chicago. Over the course of the project, I noticed that Meow Meow became more performative over the course of the month and our relationship as pet-guardian/pet evolved
In May 2001, I graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) with a BFA in Studio Art. At the graduation ceremony, DJ Spooky was a featured speaker and was awarded an honorary degree. While at SAIC, my focus was in Transdisciplinary Studies with a concentration on performance and puppetry.
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On April 5th, 2001, images of my work from the Undergraduate Exhibition at Gallery 2 in Chicago (one of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago galleries) were featured in the Chicago Journal.
On March 31, 2001 – Strings Attached, an installation of puppets and a doll I created while finishing my degree at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) opened at Gallery 2 in Chicago. Strings Attached was part of the 2001 Undergraduate Exhibition featuring the graduating BFA class at SAIC and ran through April 13th, 2001.
On April 24th, 1998, Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea and I performed our piece Toy Factory at a club night at Medusa’s, The Mission in Elgin, IL. In Toy Factory, we appeared as Twinkie and Star – the Giovanni sisters with Noel Bartus and Kate Henrichsen. The promotional materials described us as, “Too insane to be incarcerated, too sane to run for president – a roller coaster of genders and a moon for the misbegotten”. Continue reading “Toy Factory, Elgin, IL (performance)”
On March 16th, 1998, I curated Gender Trash + Other Cookies with Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea in our personas, Twinkie and Star, The Giovanni Sisters. Gender Trash & Other Cookies was an evening of queer and sex positive video screenings at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago.
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On February 28th, 1998, I appeared on the first episode of Abuctions with Alterboy, a comedy talk show on Chicago Access Network hosted by creator, Mike Anthony. For the interview, Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea and I appeared as Star and Twinkie – The Giovanni Sisters, identical twin sisters who grew up near a PCP testing plant just outside Gary, Indiana. While recounting our tale of alien abduction through hypnosis from our therapist, played by Motay, we aired a segment from Nursey Nurse, a surrealist video art piece Pippin Roe and I collaborated on.
On November 1, 1997, Kathleen “Snatchleen” O’Shea and I created “Petting Zoo”, an interactive installation which featured a human petting zoo as part of Halloween Howl, a carnival fundraiser at Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago
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In September 1997, Kathleen O’Shea and I collaborated on The Program, an installation for Hybrid exhibition at Gallery 2 in Chicago. For the installation we created low-tech animatronic stuffed animals who converse with one another about an incident they witnessed. Hybrid was part of the the Eighth International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) ’97. Continue reading “The Program, Chicago (installation)”
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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