Statement:
My practice utilizes performance as an investigative tool. I play within the conventions of historical, media, and artistic discourse in making work that brings attention to the institutions and roles we inhabit. Through my use of found texts and presumed personas I develop long-form projects, which often include installation, photography, text-based works, and video-performances – or performance alongside video projection. By actively blurring the distinction between documentary and performance, I continually seek that point at which both narrative and title collapse, the point at which meaning is both coming together and falling apart.
Danielle Adair is an artist born in northern Michigan and currently based in Los Angeles, California. She earned a BA from The University of Chicago (’03), and an MFA in Visual Arts and in Writing from California Institute of the Arts (’07). She is the recipient of the 2010 California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship and the Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts (Chicago, IL).
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