In conjunction with the 2017 University of Washington MFA + MDes Thesis Exhibition, Clare Halpine presents an independent creative research output in the form of a tad talk. Theorizing on humor and failure, through costumery and studied phrases, performance artist/pundit Clare Halpine makes permissible a self to which we may otherwise be afraid of confessing. Acknowledging that, “…visualities are the great legitimizers[1]”, a PowerPoint presentation will aid the audience in accessing the profundity of the conceptual and thematic materials explored.
Clare Halpine is an artist, writer and filmmaker. Born 1987 in Toronto, Canada, she received her BFA from Mount Allison University in 2005 and her MFA in Photomedia from the University of Washington in 2017. Her work employs humor and performance as a strategy of subversion. Her work has recently been exhibited in Seattle at the Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Meany Hall for the Performing Arts, King Street Station, WeWork Holyoke, and at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office and the International Arts Forum in New York City.
CREDITS
[1] Rebecca Schneider, “Archives: Performance Remains.” Performance Research 6, no. 2 (2001): 100-08. Anthologized in Amelia Jones and Adrian Heathfield, eds. Perform, Repeat, Record: Live Art in History. London: Intellect Ltd., 2012, 137-50.
ADMISSION
Free with museum admission.
ACCESS
This event is public.
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