day one

day one
My name is Jo Nasvik and The Missoula Dress Project is a one-month performance art piece as part of my BFA thesis. As an artist I am interested in the intersection of street art, performance art, and drawing. During the month of February I have committed to wearing this wedding gown daily and will be sewing and pinning onto the dress the evidence of my consumption. Such as coffee cups, wrappers, plastic bags, paper scraps, aluminum cans.....and so on. It is important to me that my art has cultural meaning, so I chose a wedding dress to indicate the excessive "marriage" between consumers and industry.


Thursday, February 16, 2012

Day 15
 Long day of working on the dress. I had some serious catching up to do. I'm lucky I don't get as much junk mail as my roomate. However, yesterday I went to get the mail and there was a phonebook and a tool catalog that was as thick as the phone book. A part of me wanted to just leave them and deal with them next month, but my more logical part grabbed them and brought them up to the studio. So today is my lucky day, i get to tear apart a phone book and some junk mail, shred it, and attach it to the dress. There is a lot of paper in the world due to my existence. No, I do not possibly need another phonebook, and No, I do not need a 300 page tool catalog..it seems like such a waste. But not this month, nothing is being wasted. I better get back to work. Thanks for the support everyone!!! It really makes a difference!

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