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.


Saturday, February 18, 2012

Day 18
 I woke up and realized I needed dog food. I desperately wanted go stay in my p.j.'s and just make a quick trip to the grocery store. Instead I shimmied my way into the dress and zipped it up as far as I could. I somehow was able to squeeze in to my car, which made bringing home the 15 lbs of dog food a whole lot easier. After the epic adventure of Safeway I spent the day catching up on the past few days of waste. Tonight I felt as if I should go out and be around people but I cant do that every day. I lack the funding and the desire. I have a busy week coming up and I have to take advantage of the work time right now. Lately I have been feeling like I am the queen of garbage or an insane seamstress collector. Depends on the situation. I'm excited about the additions I made today, I got some green plastic and several cans sewn on. I will update photos tomorrow. 10 more days!!
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