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Ben Guttin ::: Hideous
Beast ::: Chris Hudson :::
Lynn Marie Kirby ::: Robin
Lambert 07/08 ::: Amber
Landgraff ::: Jessica James Lansdon
::: Wednesday Lupypciw 07/08
::: Travis Meinolf ::: Barbara
Meneley 07/08 ::: Ashley
Neese 08::: Ashley Neese and
Gary Wiseman ::: Berit Nørgaard
::: Paul Notzold ::: Susanne
Cockrell and Ted Purves ::: Sal
Randolph ::: Kerri-Lynn Reeves
::: Brion Nuda Rosch ::: Heath
Schultz ::: James Servin :::
Amy Steel and Eric Nordstrom :::
Sara Thacher 07/08
::: Turner Prize ::: Karen
Wardle

Jessica
James Lansdon was born in Tucson Arizona in 1980. She
experienced a privileged middle class upbringing spending her childhood
riding horses and sailing in Mexico. Her mother works in public
health; her father is a sculptor and a builder of fake rock. Jessica
makes paintings, video, and sculpture out of a surfeit of discarded
material goods and ideas. She is interested in the
environmental and emotional perils of consumerism, the appeal of
knick-knacks, new age philosophies, planned obsolescence, imperialism,
and world's fairs.
Lets
Trade Pictures (of words).In literature and advertising written
words are emphasised (and
de-emphasised) through the careful choice of fonts, sizing, and
arrangement. Typographers use boldened fancy letters to give weight
to titles and signage. Sometimes words get so heavy they are
transformed into objects; objects which occupy space in our lives.
I am
asking participants to make drawings of words to be put together
in a poster. On the paper is a question to be answered using the
participants best hand drawn letters, bubble letters, fancy script,
block letters, whatever. These pictures are traded for a drawings
I've made of flashy advertising type words. It is my hope to trade
up for more genuine, specific kinds of words. The hand of the
participants are put to work creating authenticity from the commercial.







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