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.


Friday, February 17, 2012

Day 17
I am starting to resemble an inside out, white, bag of garbage. I caught my reflection in the window of a car dealership on my walk home and couldn't help but stare at the crazy trash lady looking back at me. Hah! I have to walk now everywhere because it is too difficult to get into my car. I like walking but every day this dress gets heavier and trickier to move around in. I also get a lot more weird looks when i'm prancing around downtown or walking over the bridge, I usually just smile and say hi to the gawkers but every once in a while I'll return the stare and look at them as if they were the crazy ones.....that always makes me laugh. I think sometime soon I will loose the privilege of sitting down. I am running out of room in the front of the dress and need to start attaching to the back side. I think I can make it a week without sitting down....I guess I don't have a choice.

Side note* Since I have been walking everywhere lately, I can not help but notice every piece of garbage that is scattered around the city. I want so badly to pick it up but it is not mine, and that is a different project, I am only keeping track of myself with this one. So blogveiwers...please pick up a piece of trash instead of just walking around it. thank you.

1 comment:

  1. Kept going you Brave Creative Soul! You make me think --- would I want to wear it?

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