Money Talks: Is Art Dead? : Jennifer Weigel [88]

Jennifer Weigel
Somerville, MA, USA
http://www.jenniferweigelart.com/
http://www.jenniferweigelprojects.com/

Debut of my busking performance Money Talks: Is Art Dead?
in Davis square
Saturday June 18, 2016 :: 11am-1pm

http://isartdeadmoneytalks.blogspot.com/

PoArt Exhibit: Jennifer Weigel [56]

Jennifer Weigel
St. Louis, MO, USA
http://artiseverywhere-chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferweigelart.com/
http://chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/

Five of Jennifer Weigel's Art Is Everywhere signs were exhibited and used performatively as part of The Prostitution of Art and Signs of Our Times exhibition at Mobius, September 18 through 25th, 2010.

All photos by Bob Raymond:

September 18th - Opening Night:



During Liz Roncka's performance, signs worn by Valerie Moon:




Daytime shots as seen through the windows
from outside Mobius at 725 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA, USA:





Art is Everywhere signs used to prostitute the exhibit at Mobius and the South End Artists at Bates (an artist cooperative adjacent to Mobius) during SOWA Open Studios in Boston (Saturday September 25th, 2010):

PoArt Exhibit: Updates #22

The featured artist on Friday February 4th, 2011 will be Jennifer Weigel who generously gave her permission to use five of her Art Is Everywhere signs during the Signs of Our Times and the Prostitution of Art exhibition as well as performatively during SOWA Open Studios (September 25th, 2010)

Guerrilla Performance #3: The Mobius Artist Group [28]

Documentation of Guerilla performances on Labor Day weekend

Sunday September 5th, 2010
with Irish Famine Memorial
Boston, MA, USA

Starving artists?

with EG and aj (Jane Wang)
photos by Milan Kohout

prostituting ourselves on the street
for the sake of
Mobius
Art Is Everywhere
and more specifically
The Prostitution of Art and Signs of Our Times
Exhibition and Performances
September 18-25th, 2010 @Mobius

The Mobius Artist Group
www.mobius.org

Art is Everywhere sign by Jennifer Weigel
http://artiseverywhere-chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferweigelart.com/
http://chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/

Bitches... puppy mill dogs... prostitution... art...: Jennfer Weigel [27]

Bitches... puppy mill dogs... prostitution... art...

Jennifer Weigel performed Bitch for the Women's Caucus for Art Women & Environment show at Florissant-Valley Community College. From the reception on March 5, 2009 through the end of the month, she spent regular gallery hours in the gallery cramped in a large dog crate. This amounted to being there roughly four to six hours a day, Monday - Saturday, minus spring break, for a total of over 70 hours, most of which was spent reading feminist literature and art discourse. Weigel journaled her experiences and reactions on her blog.

http://chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/search/label/bitch

This performance was initially created to reflect on women's roles in society (mothers, sex objects, bitches) while simultaneously raising awareness of puppy mill dogs endure. Weigel placed herself in the dog crate in order to add a human element, so that viewers were more directly confronted with what puppy mill dogs endure by being able to project themselves into that situation.

Many people do not know where that "puppy in the window" at the pet store came from, but in all likelihood it came from a puppy mill. Puppy mill dogs are essentially prostituted; their value linked to their breeding ability (sexuality). When a bitch can no longer breed she is considered to have outlived her usefulness. Many are auctioned off or killed after years of bearing litter after litter of puppies with no rest between breeding cycles. Puppies that are not sold while they are young typically meet the same fate by becoming breeding dogs, and some are inbred to close relations, even siblings.

Missouri unfortunately boasts many puppy mills, and the legal conditions in which these animals can be kept are poor, with dogs spending their entire lives confined in wire cages, sometimes outdoors and exposed to the elements, and breeders keeping hundreds and even thousands of livestock. There is a proposition set to appear on the November ballot that will improve those conditions by requiring that breeding dogs have access to a dog run on a regular basis and limiting the number of breeding dogs that may be kept.

Jennifer Weigel
St. Louis, MO, USA
http://jenniferweigelart.com/
http://chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/
http://artiseverywhere-chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/

Guerilla Performances #1: The Mobius Artist Group [24]

Documentation of Guerilla performances on Labor Day weekend

Sunday September 5th, 2010
Outside Park Street T Stop
Boston, MA, USA

with Milan Kohout, EG and aj (Jane Wang)

prostituting ourselves on the street
for the sake of
Mobius
Art Is Everywhere
and more specifically
The Prostitution of Art and Signs of Our Times
Exhibition and Performances
September 18-25th, 2010 @Mobius

Photos of EG and aj taken by Milan Kohout
Photo of aj and Milan Kohout taken by EG

The Mobius Artist Group
www.mobius.org

Art is Everywhere sign by Jennifer Weigel
http://artiseverywhere-chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/
http://jenniferweigelart.com/
http://chaoticblacksheep.blogspot.com/