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 2, 2012


Highlights of the day                                             
1. Going to Walmart                                             
2. Getting two helpers to carry my dress up 3 flights of stairs                                                              
3. Gaining more support!                                           

Lowlights of the day
1. Realizing that I'm going to have to shower more to keep the dress from smelling too bad
2. Discovering the amount of work it is going to take to keep up with my excessive relationship
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  1. Angie LouFebruary 2, 2012 at 9:22 PM

    LOVING the PBR can/flower/snowflake! (whichever it may be) ;) Keep up the great work Jo Jo! Really looking forward to checking back every day to see how it's going! You are simply amazing.

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