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Colette Copeland is a interdisciplinary visual artist, arts educator, social activist and cultural critic/writer whose work examines issues surrounding gender, death and contemporary culture. Sourcing personal narratives and popular media, she utilizes video, photography, performance and sculptural installation to question societal roles and the pervasive influence of media, and technology on our communal enculturation.

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Last summer, I was part of the collaborative, experimental sound art residency Field Kitchen Academy in Perleberg, Germany (outside of Berlin), studying with sonic thinker and composer Sam Auinger. I created some works with the female-identifying and non-binary residents, recording their voices individually in an 1830s old rusted barn silo. The inside of the silo had a swastika chalked on wall from vandals. We made a new drawing transforming the hate symbol into something positive and used our voices to embody the space into one that was more inclusive. Our residency theme was the Voice as Object, the Object (h)as Voice and each participant repeated the phrase in their 1st language.

Colette Copeland

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Website: www.colettecopeland.com https://vimeo.com/user8477735 Education Teaching Experience Volunteer Work Solo/2 Person Exhibitions 2025 TBD –“Soundings–Let Your Voice Be Heard”, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas April – “Soundings–Let Your Voice Be Heard”, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas 2024 September – “Soundings: India–Let Your Voice Be Heard”, Arthshila Art Center, Ahmedabad, India March – “Soundings–Let Your Voice Be …

Shreyasi Pathak

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Shreyasi Pathak (he/they) is/are interested in and often find themselves in flea markets, junkyards, wreckages, and such places and non-places, zoning out, collecting, hoarding and photographing places/spaces. They are intrigued by places of cognitariat-ship, custodianship and memory that compels one to find and figure out ways of engaging with the archive and with those outside …

Anna Fritzel

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Anna Fritzel is a photography based multi-media artist who lives in Plano, Texas and has been educating college photography students since 2005. Anna is a PhD candidate in Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. She holds a BS in Photography as well as an MS in Art from Texas A&M Commerce. She …

Bearding

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In Part 1, The Victorian Woman shaves off THE MAN’S beard. This ritual act allows her to grow a beard and in Part 2, she competes in the Dallas Beard Competition. With a not-so-sly nod to the Biblical story of Samson & Delilah. This is the 4th and final installment of The Victorian Woman and …

Route 666

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Inspired by Dada, Theater of the Absurd, Situationist Theory and contemporary performance art, Copeland’s performance video work humorously questions cultural norms. Her alter ego—The Victorian Woman always performs in full costume engaging in what is typically thought of as “masculine culture or masculine activities”. She does not train for these performances. She will allow no …

Victorian Woman vs THE MAN

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In the third installment of the Victorian Woman bearing arms series, my alter-ego engages in hand-to-hand combat as she wrestles THE MAN. The trailer features Period 1 (of a 3 period freestyle wrestling match), which results in a tragic loss for the Victorian Woman. Will she be able to make a comeback to defeat THE …

Transcending the Solemn Geography of Human Limits….. or Not

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The study of proxemics introduced by anthropologist Edward Hall in 1959 describes specific measurable distances between people as they interact. From his studies, Hall determined that the distance defining a person’s personal space (or the region surrounding a person which constitutes their domain or territory) shifts depending on whether they know the person and the …