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.


Sunday, February 5, 2012

 

Just another day at the office
Day 5

 Everyday involves more and more work on the dress. I still have errands to run and a life to live, so any chance I get I need to be working on the dress. I have been making flowers and designs but that is getting a bit boring. I can't make flowers every day for a month, I'm just not that kind of person. I've been thinking about creating a robot army that makes up the bottom of the dress....almost as if the trash was morphing into a smart and destructive army, ready to rage agains the industries that have controlled them their entire life. I haven't decided yet for sure.  I'm getting better at sewing so who knows what will happen. Big day tomorrow.



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