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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Just Add Maggots

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Shadow Boxes Artist Statement Just Add Maggots is an ongoing series that merges the artists fascination with death with the need to collect/memorialize. The project takes many forms including sculpture, photography, video, installation, and theater. The Museum Theater Production In Fall 2009, the Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s theater department Dr. Rose Malague contacted …

Mydeath.com (aka How to Plan a funeral in 90 Seconds or Less)

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The video, ”Mydeath.com” (aka How to Plan a Funeral in 90 Seconds or Less) humorously asserts the Internet as the ultimate commodified marketplace. Recontextualizing images downloaded from various ‘death’ websites, the work celebrates the bombardment of visual information questioning the point at which we reach saturation and how we decipher what information is accurate.