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Friday, July 9, 2010

post cards... & finally a title for the project


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About the Dickinson Project [Semester 3]

Above is a rough sketch or plan for my installation of this project work. I have selected three poems by Emily Dickinson which include "clover" and "bee" as subjects. I am interested in the concept of narratives as constructions of identity through use of the performative (in text, action, film, art, etc). I have been specifically interested in the processes surrounding the denudation and reconstruction of these narratives. I have responded to each poem through writing, sketching, ranting, internet searches, and comparisons with other writers (such as Anais Nin). Although each poem I have selected contains "clover" and "bee", my dissections and reactions to each poem have led to very different visual responses and explorations.

Semester 3 Installation

About Documenting Identity

My work this past semester has brought up certain questions relating to identity as a form of performance. A form of performance which operates within a broad continuum of culturally governed male/female actions and rituals for us to play in, explore, and situate ourselves in.

Some questions to consider.

Is our identity created through our daily performances/rituals? Does gender specify certain types of roles which limit or direct these performances?... or do we become highly specialized in the creation of specific types of characters therein? How much do we play in these performances? How much control does society and culture have on the direction of our identity play?... how responsible are we for actualizing these directed roles?

Documenting Identity [semester 2]

Semester 2 Video... execution de baiser (performance kiss)

baiser d'exécution from Ulik on Vimeo.

Semester 2 Installation

Pink Furry Play, fabricated sculpture/installation; second semester installation (third residency). The "staged" installation was interactive and viewers could lay within the installed domestic space, listening to audio while watching a projected video.

Semester 1... August 2008 - February 2009

below are works relating to my studies during my first semester at VCFA

Installation at VCFA residency [semester 1 exhibition]

Installation at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT [Jan.31-Feb. 8,2009]. The installation combined etchings, a collaborative intaglio print quilt, and sculpture exploring the concepts of gender identity and sexuality.

"Openings" Project [semester 1]

Inception, Orifice, & Interstice The "Openings" project is a three print intaglio triptych exploring aspects of gendered imagery of the body. Pod, a sculpture fabricated by hand from a rusty box-spring, also plays on gendered associations of the body, incorporating additional materials such as: wood, pleather, and sour cherry candy.

"Patchwork" Project [semester 1]

"Patchwork" a collaborative printmaking project [Jan. 2009] was aimed toward bringing artists, and their viewpoints regarding identity (as defined by gender), together for the sake of understanding how third wave feminist concerns of essentialism and difference may or may not operate simultaneously.

The embossments, created from a single etched copper plate, operate in two ways. First, they signify representational and historical second wave feminist imagery of the body. Additionally, they provide a constructed starting point for each artist to actively depart from and actively reconstruct.

... click on the title link for more info about participants, and photos of individual works submitted.


Lipschtick

Lipschtick from Ulik on Vimeo.

Anemone






Anemone from Ulik on Vimeo.

artist statement [at the moment...09]

I am fascinated by the phenomenology of one's own sense of self and how it is performed, made manifest, and lost within the grid of identity politics and socio-historical constructs.

As a visual artist, I am deeply drawn to gesture and the performative visual qualities demonstrated by individuals. They represent a visual language and aesthetic which cannot be communicated by any other means.

It is this visual language which transcends all constructs to communicate across subjectivities and degrees of otherness. In this sense, it is a language which operates in a performative manner; bound to audience as a cohort of the public.

vcfa S1 students

  • Ava Orphanoudakis
  • Cuba Ray
  • David French
  • Dennis Hart
  • Emily Lanctot
  • Frank Page
  • Kate Renner
  • Kathy Couch
  • Keating Wilson
  • Kevin Knopp
  • Lexi Ryckman
  • Lisa Ulik
  • Maggie McBrien
  • Maura McHugh
  • Nick Patterson
  • Polly Gaillard
  • Renee Couture
  • Rod Vesper
  • Scott Cantrell
  • Tereza Swanda
  • Todd Baldwin

My Artist-Teacher[s]

  • Sara Black
  • Mary Patten
  • Andrea Stanislav
  • Julie Murray

vcfa S1 alumni assistants

  • Sabrina Fadial
  • Rocco Scary
  • Robert O'Connor
  • Tania Kupczak
  • Craig Snyder
  • Tamsin Whitehead
  • John Solaperto

vcfa faculty on leave

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  • Sharon Hayes
  • Leah Gilliam
  • Allan deSouza

vcfa faculty

  • Michelle Dizon
  • Andrea Ray
  • Ashley Hunt
  • Faith Wilding
  • Dont Rhine
  • Ulrike Muller
  • Miwon Kwon
  • Marie Shurkus
  • Janet Kaplan
  • David Deitcher
  • Humberto Ramirez
  • Mario Ontiveros
  • Michael Minelli
  • Lana Lin

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