She World
A participatory collection project.
The archive – relics, ephemera and detritus of
lost and then found objects from the lives of women –
is a source I use for close observation of the energy held
in personal residue. Collected and cataloged over many
years the archive is a mystery of feminine objects that
hint at the life of a woman. I have invited other
women artists (writers, musicians, visual artists)
to engage with this archive as a way to understand
the lives of women through their objects.
The She World Archive
top, Los Angeles, CA, 2007 - 2017
The archive was dismantled
in 2018, although the objects continue
to invite further involvement with
the nature of things.
Catalog of Contents,
bottom - detail 2010.
Hair Movie in Shrine
video loop, cardboard, hearing tube,
craft paper, and Shrine for Elaine
archival print, cardboard, craft paper, soaps.
”These Creatures” Wignall Museum,
Rancho Cucamonga, CA,
2019.
Home-Life
Detail, forty photographs of demolished homes,
and She World artifacts, live recitation of text.
Many of the objects in the archive were found
in homes belonging to displaced women.
Cypress College, CA, 2018.
Jelly Har Collapse
Home -Life, 16MM film screening,
overhead projections and live reading.
Vancouver BC. 2019
She World Projections
Sleepless, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion,
projections in the dressing room,
Los Angeles, CA, 2016.
MARGURITTE:
A Demonstration for Overhead Projector
16mm film, featuring artifacts from an estate.
Sound - Julianna Snapper, Julia Lisztwan.
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2016.
She World Lecture
Student participation with two overhead projectors,
phonograph, personal objects and cake.
UC Irvine, CA, 2016.
Bessie Lecture
Overhead projection, personal objects.
Sound by Betsy Rettig.
Porch, Domestic Projects,
Los Angeles CA, 2015.
CYRK: A Woman’s Own Story of Life Under the Big Top
Performance, shadow play, music, film and artifact
exhibits from the She World Archive.
Music by Laura Steenberge, Emily Lacey, Joe Santa Maria.
Performers Sallie Merkel, Dan Rae Wilson, Natalie Shriver
Automata Chinatown Los Angeles, CA, 2014.
She World Vitrines
Three vitrines, artifacts, flashlights,
magnifiers, video projection.
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 2013.
She World Goes to Oakland
Immersive installation, artifact exhibits, flashlights,
music by Emily Lacy.
Krowswork Gallery, Oakland CA 2013.