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Some images from my newly finished paintings from
my "looking for a good enough mother" attachment series have been inserted here. --Holly Crawford, August
2009
On my 5th birthday my parents gave me a little iron and washing
machine. What do you do with this? I washed the lines out of my older brothers notebook paper very carefully, pressed
it with the little iron than never even got warm and hung the sheets on a litttle clothes line. I then had my own paper
to make my marks.
What is a feminist art now?
What do you see? What do you want to see?
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connection
collaborations
unexpected collaboration
participatory
reluctant
participant
The first participation/installation/relational that I did was in May 1983 at the
FutureWorld Expo in Los Angeles. (This was also my first public art exhibit. And I failed to send out press releases. And
I didn't document it either. I just wanted to do it.) There was a lunch I had to miss. My husband was a partner at Jones Day
and one of the wives asked me why, "I was just painting." I wasn't I was asking you to do something and think about it. I
had a booth. It was about future art. I called it "art in the future." It was free. Anyone could participate. I installed
a 3 panel screen. The frames were wrapped in canvas. People could work on both sides. It was blank. I had markers, spray paint,
pastel, and acrylic paint. The first person to make a mark was an architect. The more marks the more that were made--drawings,
signatures, works. I would mask off places and paint some blank. Near the end of the third day I removed what I had masked
off.
found and finding
situations
objects
sounds
people
places
your life
At the Futureworld Expo I mostly talked to people about art and they talked to me.
My second cousin--Ellen--came by with her son. I had not told her I would be there. She was about 8 years older. Years before
when I was very young, I though she looked a lot like Jane Fonda. She was very pretty. Several years later she killed herself.
Why? No answer. She never seemed unhappy, but she took a handgun and went into a closet in her house and shot herself. Her
mother is now died. Her father died years before.
Did Buckminster Fuller wander by and make his mark?
Maybe. He did wander by. Does it make any difference. The project does not exist anymore. I destroyed it in the 90s. I did
not take any photographs. I almost never take pictures. How will I ever become a 'great' artist. Not enough
documentation. I don't have any of Ellen either.
relations? who? relational, how?
unplanned collaborations and connections
different media
the performative exchange
across visual, verbal and experiential disciplines
institutions
situations
behavior
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LAYER UPON LAYER:
Artist, curator, art historian, behavioral scientist and economist, aunt, wife, daughter, sister, friend,
lover, employer, founder, leasor, owner, seller, buyer, maker
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exploring
thinking
expected? how?
unplanned collaborations and connections
different media
the performative
exchange across visual, verbal and experiential disciplines
institutions
institutionalized art
situations
behavior
ephemeral
unexpected collaborations
questioning
boundaries...
ignoring boundaries
modes of critical writing that challenge conventional
expectations of meaning and objectivity and the boundaries between the rational and subjective
exploring
performative exchange across visual, verbal and experiential disciplines.
exchange
medium
of exchange
I'm I still playing by myself? I'm I creating places and spaces in hopes that someone will
want to play with me?
will you play with me? do it want to play with you?
Is the best art the
most expensive?
Is it art? Not the right question. Do it. It is! And try not sound like a
commercial.
art + artist= artist + art
play, think,
create, produce, rework, think, react...question, play.
interactive
popular?
index
markets
FREE
Labels.
re-label. No labels
high and low
The moon
is moving away.
technology is not science
humor
Pluto is now a dwarf planet, but still a dog.
Networks
Our
nearest galaxy is racing towards us.
Are we racing towards something, anything?
What
is a pin? What does it do? What can it do?
Critical writing that challenges conventional expectations
of meaning and objectivity and the boundaries between the rational and subjective.
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Traditional and Experimental. Mixed and transformed. Crossing boundaries. Making Connections.
Curiosity and humor about the world as Looking out and looking inward.
Cross media,
interactive and multimedia--video, photography, painting, prints, artist's books, site specific installation, performance.
Work is not driven by sales or exhibitions, but investigations and interest.
concepts...do
not have to be lifeless
emotions can express concepts
BUT...and...
Art is play.
Will you play with me?
Do
you want to play?
Networks are explored. The ordinary is examined and presented in different
different contexts. Roles are reversed. Roles are mixed.
Objects found.
Looked at differently.
The art and poetry projects cross lines and boundaries. They
do not fall into nice neat categories. Projects are ephemeral and about connections. Different types of connection. In 13
Ways of Looking at a Blackbirds I connect the black balloons. They are cells. THEY ARE PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE. They structures
that are created would last for more than a year! But they are popped and tossed. They are time based. The time frame was
set by the institutions that allowed me the space.
These individual units are connected and re-connected into
temporary shapes. Time and place always vary. Every installation is site specific.
Washing
lines out of paper.
Offerings is an Altar to Connectedness.
The
limo is womb-like.
The limo is free.
The limo is a white box.
The limo is intimate.
The
limo is experimental. Limo is power. Limo is celebrity. Limo is money. Limo is American. Limo is elegant. Limo is tacky.
Private
and public.
Fragments that take on new meanings. Deliberate re-ordering. And chance re-orders
them.
Artifacts. Remnants and remains. Ghosts. artifacts.
Mixing the
subjective and the objective.
mass media
hegemony
fundamental
disequilibriums examined
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