JILLIAN MCDONALD



the general public was invited to bring a favourite article of clothing for unspecified alteration.



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The original event took place at Headquarters project space. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. May 30 - June 4, 2002



ABOUT THE ARTIST

Jillian Mcdonald is a Canadian performance and media artist, transplanted in Brooklyn. Her web projects include Things are Okay and Home Like No Place which have been produced in residency at Trinity Square Video in Toronto and La Chambre Blanche Gallery in Québec City.

Her videos have been screened recently in Second Sight , a curated alumni show at Hunter College Times Square Gallery; Truckfood and Unpacked , two exhbiitons about food in moving trucks and meatlockers; Straylight, an online exhibition from Dublin; Video Marathon at Art in General; and American Sandwich at Star 67 Gallery in Brooklyn.

She has received a Canada Council for the Arts Grant for the creation of an ongoing body of performance work titled In the Public Eye. Seven performance projects have been installed in seven cities, includingTailor Made, a two-week tailoring performance in Montréal and Toronto, and Borrowed Objects in New York City. She is performing Houseplant through September 29th in New York.

Upcoming: Power Tattoo- a performance in the Contemporary Art Forum´s Power to the People project; Exquisite Corpse: Little Sins - a video project at White Box in NYC curated by Rachel Melman; and Advice Lounge - a web project for Videographe and Vitamin B in Montréal.

Jillian teaches Computer Art at Pace University and Pratt Institute and is co-curator of No Live Girls - a 60-artist video project for peepbooths at the Lusty Lady in San Francisco and Seattle (http://www.nolivegirls.org).



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