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.


Wednesday, February 8, 2012


Day 7&8
        Well I made it a week! only three to go......hmmmm. Things are going pretty good. The dress is getting slightly awkward to get around in, but that issue is only going to get worse, so I have to just get used to it. I sometimes feel pretty silly wearing around this giant white collection of paper, containers, and what not. Often though, I feel a sense of pride. Its a strange thing to put it all out there, I cant hide anything. If you look at the dress long enough you can figure out what I have been doing and where I have been for the past week. I have decided that me and my trash are on the same team. We both have very little control over their existence. By creating new things with the trash I am able to let it exist as something else, something pretty, or funny. I'm giving it a second chance, rather than putting it in the trash, then the dumpster, then the dump, then the earth, to forever exist there. Maybe we just need to have a little more respect for these inanimate objects, give them another chance. That is something we do have control over. 

2 comments:

  1. What a fantastic idea! Can't wait to check it out at the end of the month. Go, Go, Jo!

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