"22 Years of Inventory" wins Best Of Show !!!!!!


Go check out the 2009 Thesis Exhibition Juried Winners, at MIAD's Fredrick Layton Gallery.


***My piece has a new video component since the performance is no longer in motion. A beautiful flat screen TV will be streaming photo documentation of the performance!

Gallery hours are 10 AM - 5 PM Tuesday through Saturday.
The show is open until August 8th. The school is located on 273 E. Erie Street Milwaukee, WI 53202.

Behind the Scenes of the '22 Years of Inventory' performance.

****Special thanks to my lovely friend Miss. Brittany Parker for doing the photography during the performance. Please check out her website at...

http://www.hanle-productions.com/

Other Huge Thank You's to....!

My beautiful assistants.... Take a bow.
Danielle Rosen
Molly Roberts (visit Molly at http://herspeak.blogspot.com/)

Video: Andrea Guzetta

Props: Bruce Grudzinski, Chad Dodds,MBI Publishing Company,
and all of the MIAD students who responded to my request and dropped off bubble wrap and packing peanuts in my studio every day! Thanks!

Words of wisdom: Sir. David Martin, Jill Sebastian, Will Pergl, Bruce Grudzinski, and my old c0-workers from the galleries (you know who you are! Mr. Colin T.)

Design: Jessica Nieczyperowicz

For everything wonderful, unpacking and repacking physically and figuratively speaking: Rebecca Siahaan

The lovely ladies from Yellow Jacket for their feedback and ideas.

Finally Ma n' Pa Gustafson for the ample amounts of support in going to art school and having crazy dreams.

And possibly the big man up there too.

"Twenty Two Years of Inventory" Senior Thesis Performance

This performance - based installation was exhibited during the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Designs BFA Show on April 17th and will continue through May 3rd, 2009 on the campus' third ward location in Milwaukee, WI. The piece was performed on May 14th (preview night) and May 17th during Milwaukee's spring gallery night.

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Chasing after the wind, Everything was meaningless under the sun, Standing in the desert, The magician covered her dwelling with pages of inventory, Assistants performed a drama, Unveiling 22 Years of Inventory.

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BFA Exhibition

Look i'm mentioned on MIAD's front page! "22 Years of Inventory"

http://www.miad.edu/content/view/1020/413/

Tracking Patterns

Tracking movement patterns of the Gustafson, Koehler, Anderson, Brenizer, Stafne, Garrett, Rahoy clans. ***This map needs to be updated. Movement has spread since last recording.

Studio Practice (MIAD)

Center

tHe ENcOUNteRS oF fAIrY TaLE cREatUREs Pt. 1

She drew a spiral on his arm.
He drew a black sharpie dot on hers.
He left a wet coffee ring on the page.
She left a wet tea bag stain beside it.
She drew a picture saying he had googly eyes.
He drew a picture of a sword.
He emptied his frustrations,
While she aligned a forest of colored pencils and crayons on the coffee table.
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These are old lines from her sketch book of archives.

Temple of Dada

The Ocean.

The Wilderness.

A conversation. Paraphrased. A lot. 

Between Rebecca Siahaan (the ocean) and Ashley Gustafson (the wilderness)

"Our apartment is dada."  "Ha ha! What?!"  "Yes, dada! How else can you come up with an explanation for the objects of our lives?" "Everything in this apartment is connected to a story.  These things have a specific function in both of our lives.  They define us. Reflect who we are. Just so happens our lives are so crazy and unpredictable that we snugly were misplaced and collided into the category of Dada." "or Fluxus.  More so Fluxus.... How can we describe our lives so "they" understand?" "You can't describe it, that's why it's dada!" "They can take our word for it. We are priestess' of dada."  "Thus the reason why the "write something about yourself" box on your face book says "Adventures in Wonderland!" Because that's what life is.  Special note  Spee-Dee delivery opening your crates, the screw driver falling out of the sky.  Stories, our lives are dadist/fluxist stories!"