Amber Hawk Swanson | Doll Closet

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Date:
December 13, 2014
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Venue:
The Watermill Center

Doll Closet will be the next in Amber Hawk Swanson’s series of durational building performances, and will invite conversations about the closet as a representation of secrecy for queerness and doll ownership, as well as the role of community in understanding self-identification. Doll Closet will be made possible by anonymous doll owner Jesse, who became a friend and collaborator to Hawk Swanson through their shared involvement in the doll community. The performance will be inspired by the hidden room Jesse built in his home where he secretly kept his 1998 model RealDoll, Heather, for fifteen years before donating her body to be transformed and reassembled in Hawk Swanson’s 2013 performance Sidore (Mark II) / Heather > LOLITA. Over the seven consecutive days of Doll Closet, Hawk Swanson will build a replica of Heather’s room. Jesse will call in during select hours of each day to provide guidance and instruction. The pieces of Heather leftover from LOLITA will also be present to witness the reconstruction.

Amber Hawk Swanson (b. 1980, Davenport, IA) is a video and performance artist living and working in Brooklyn. Recent exhibitions and screenings include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Momenta Art (Brooklyn), and Locust Projects (solo, Miami). Recent residencies include Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture (Maine), MacDowell (New Hampshire), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida, curated by Coco Fusco), and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NYC).  Hawk Swanson holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Studio Arts, 2006).

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