Ryder Cooley, Surgical Props, 2004

As an installation and performance artist, she invent haunted dream worlds that echo political and cultural phenomena of past and present. Video, sound, and lighting create an atmosphere of dis-reality. Rescued materials are transformed into props and garments which reveal incomplete evidence of pasts. Emerging from places of post-industrial decay and wilderness, these installations give refuge to new habitations of marginal hybrid species. Mythical androgen creatures stem from cracks and crevices as drawings and performance characters. Their bodies are modified through transfigurations that abandon notions of gender and identity. By performing within these installations, she becomes a Utopian gutter creature.

Public performances, interventions, murals, and collaborations are modes that he employs to engage viewers in multi-sensory dialogs. Working resourcefully and sustainably while establishing and maintaining art practices that extend beyond the context of industry and convention is integral to my approach. Exchanges with environments and communities in local and international settings are critical to his practice.

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Power Couture: Collective Exhibition

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