1. - Images 1 through 11 An assignment where the students were asked to transform a suitcase using silk screen printmaking, installation and performance elements.
2. - 1 through 4 Images of politicians and fish silk screened onto rags and used during a traveling cleaning product sales pitch. Hung to dry after scrubbing 'clean'.
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5. - Images 5 and 6 Using roller skates as a way of printing, the student takes out images of politicians from suitcase and rolls chain imagery over them with skates and ink.
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7. - Images 7 and 8 Louis Vuitton inspired Dunkin Donuts Case.
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9. - Student documented everything he said on January 20th, 2009 and wrote it all down on a scroll that came from inside the suitcase. Approximately 15 feet long.
10. - Images 10 and 11 Suitcase as movie theatre.
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12. - Images 12 through 20: A final assignment where the students were asked to use all elements in a larger space: silk-screen, installation and performance. 12- 14 Continuing with this idea of ‘theatre’ space, the student built upon her previous movie theatre suitcase to create a large-scale skeleton puppet theatre.
13. - An expandable, accordion ‘theatre’ was placed in the middle of the stage. Looking through this accordion, the viewer can see video footage of skeleton puppetry from previous project.
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15. - Images 15-17 Student created a silk screened living space for herself as a bird, with wings, feathers made of fabric and silk-screened images.
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18. - Images 18- 20 Inspired by the current “Heat or Eat” dilemma, a re-occurring economic problem throughout history, the student creates a kitchen space and while dressed in winter wear, makes brownies. There is a silkscreen cardboard oven, curtains and wallpaper. One wall has wallpaper with imagery of ‘Heat”: matches and heaters. The other wall has wallpaper with imagery of “Eat”: eggs and bread.
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Kara Dunne
Printmaker/Video Artist Providence, RI