Dress Tents

The Dress Tents are wearable architectures, a conflation of fashion, photography, and performance art. The dress tent installations and photographs provide a forum for connecting our bodies to the landscape. It is next to impossible to ponder that connection without taking into consideration environmental and social justice issues. Each dress tent in the series uniquely explores these relationships.

The wearable architecture is installed and worn in the landscape in order to be photographed. Humor is paramount in these photographs, which are meant to be alluring and whimsical. In other instances, the installations are designed to be performed and displayed in a gallery, museum, public space as interactive living sculptures. These tent-like forms are worn at the opening reception and additional scheduled performance times. A dress form substitutes for the figure during the duration of the exhibition. The interior of the installations house video and sound pieces that refer to the original landscape.

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