Statement:
We use stories to understand each other. I am compelled by the stories we tell ourselves and those that culture generates. Do our cultural storylines – that of the artist or soldier or manic-depressive or expert, for instance – describe us or do we embody these roles because they have established storylines? My practice utilizes performance as an investigative tool. I play with the conventions of historical, media, academic, and artistic discourse, and I utilize found texts and perceived roles in my video-performances and texts that result.
The dynamic image integrates all the ways in which I work – performance, writing, installation, photography, and sound. I respect the medium for its versatility and its significance to the subject matter I continually interrogate in my art practice, that of narrative construction. By blurring documentary and performance, I aim to produce work that can initiate a story for both the passing and seated reader, and through self-reflexivity and humor, to bring attention to the places and roles we inhabit. I am continually seeking that point at which both narrative and title collapse, the point at which meaning is both coming together and falling apart.
Short Bio:
Danielle Adair is an artist living in Los Angeles. She attended The University of Chicago for her BA and received her MFA in Visual Arts and in Writing from California Institute of the Arts. Currently, she is at work on First Assignment, an ongoing project series for which she has embedded with US forces stationed in Afghanistan.
daniellecorrell [at] gmail [dot] com