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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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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On March 21, 2019, Genie Davis reported on “Stuck Together” in “Art Party Openings At the Bendix Building” for the Artillery Magazine Blog:
On October 8, 2018, writer, Jane Pickett dropped this interview outtake from her piece in Riting on Object of Her Affection and its origins. In this clip I reflect on some childhood memories with puppets and dolls
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On April 20th, 2017, American Theatre, announced the 2017 season at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, including my artist-in-residence for Model Killer.
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On July 14, 2014, Tyler Peterson covered Object of Her Affection in Broadway World. Object of Her Affection is a solo object and puppet-based performance art piece centered on a woman, who in her search for true love develops intimate relationships with inanimate objects.
Continue reading “OBJECT OF HER AFFECTION Runs this Weekend at Automata, BroAdway world (7/15/2014)”On September 18th, 2006, Kate Bornstein appeared on the Chicago-based LGBTQ comedy podcast, Feast of Fun Podcast #390 – A Fate Better Than Death, to discuss their book, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws. In talking with Fausto Ferños and Marc Felion, they briefly discussed my performance work.
“Marsian hails back to a long tradition of artistic fools, who twist the culture around well beyond the regular artistic way of twisting culture around to a point of impossibility and absurdity that makes you rethink all of reality”
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On February 3, 1994, I was interviewed for Newsday, a Long Island / NYC newspaper, about the passage of The Gay and Lesbian Student Rights Law.
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On December 23, 1993, Bay Windows covered the passage of legislation I worked on to protect LGBGTQ students in Massachusetts.
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