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 1, 2012


February 1st.
It is day one of the Missoula Dress Project. I woke up a bit haggard because I had a hard time sleeping last night. It was like the night before a real wedding, I was so nervous I thought I was going to throw up. However, I am committed to this idea and this performance, so I woke up, put the dress on, and got to work, because I already had finished off a cream cheese container and needed to sit and attach it. The hardest part was walking out the door, I paced around gaining every bit of courage before I began the journey walking to campus. Now that i've made it 5 hrs in the dress, I am feeling more comfortable. I will be taking photos and video to document the process and the accumulation of my dress.
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