Two Girls Working opened the new exhibition Trappings: Portraits at PDX in Portland, Oregon. This exhibition features images and stories of Trappings participants in multiple media including photography, video, audio, and text. The exhibition will be up from May 2011 – October 2011

This exhibition reveals the process we developed to reconnect with participants when we wrote our book, taking additional photographs and asking them to expand on their original responses to the question what do you wear that makes you feel powerful? Seven women are featured in Portland. The exhibition includes their original Trappings portraits, follow up photographs, and video grabs from the interview sessions that show the interview environment. Visitors can also read excerpts from the interviews and call into the PDX phone system to hear recordings of the women’s interviews.

For more information, please visit the Two Girls Working Website

The final bash in Times Square!

Members of Art 364B were in attendance, along with her myriad fans from around the region, and the US for Maria The Korean Bride’s 50th and final wedding, this past Sunday, May 22. The wedding was officiated by Jimmy “The Rent is Too Damn High’ McMillan (seen just to the right of Art 364B)! We were all so happy for her-those could be there and those who were there in spirit!

On Sunday, May 22nd at 4 p.m,  Maria The Korean Bride will have her 50th and final wedding. She has ‘married’ in all 50 states as part of her on-going performance project in Times Square, the heart of New York City.

Wedding Reception & Video Screening to Immediately Follow, 5:30 p.m.
Trattoria Cinque, Tribeca, Lower Level, 363 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10013 / 212.965.0555
Appetizers & hors d’oeuvres will be served / Cash bar will be available

* This event will be streamed LIVE at www.aveventstream.com and will be recorded for different media such as television, print press, and/or radio.

The Wyoming Wedding

Maria Yoon’s project “Maria the Korean Bride”, (almost) a 10 year odyssey of a first generation Korean-American who marries in all fifty states provides the window for this unique look at the evolving institution of marriage. This project has created a great deal of feedback from all across America. I have been witness to some of the best of America and unfortunately some of its worst too.

My final and 50th Wedding is scheduled to take place on Sun, May 22nd in Times Square, NYC with a Mystery NY Groom. Jimmy McMillan, Rent is Too Damn High Party, will officiate the Wedding. Please go to Nanomajority.com for more. Please feel free to contribute to the conversation

Misc Pippa Garner

Tiffany Ludwig contributes a new essay by her collaboration with Renee Piechocki, Two Girls Working. Exploring their project Trappings, Two Girls Working discuss artworks and moments which have encountered instances of censorship in exhibitions, public installations and removal of interviews by participants. Read Telling stories in the public realm: what has been removed.

Trappings is an artwork that begins by asking women to respond to the question: what do you wear that makes you feel powerful? While the project begins with a question about clothing, the project is not about fashion and to a large extent is not even about clothing. Through its multiple parts, Trappings ignites conversations about the meaning and expression of power.

Please contribute to this conversation by going to nanomajority.com

Melissa Potter will present her animated film in progress, Ammunition For The Virgin at the FMX Festival in Mexico City.

Melissa Potter’s Animated Film in Progress, Ammunition for the Virgin is now on-line

By tradition in some the remote and inaccessible Southeastern parts of the Balkans, a girl born to a family without boys is forced or sometimes chooses to live her life as a man. She dresses like a man and usually takes on the role of inheritor of the family property, becoming a brother to her sisters. In most cases, she never marries and never engages in a sexual relationship, hence the referral to these women as “sworn virgins”.

Please check it out, along with stills of the women interviewed, and of course, everyone is welcome to contribute to the conversation

http://www.nanomajority.com/projects/melissa-potter

You can see Marietta Davis’ video collaboration with Heather Marie Vernon, The Beauty Files is now on Nanomajority.com

This excerpt is a video conversation where the ideals of beauty and femininity as defined by standards of popular culture are taken apart, even exploded to ask the question what, is, beautiful?

We welcome you to  join in the conversation.