At the Free Speech Corner adjacent to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, on Veteran’s Day 2007 Erin shaved her head as a response to the war in Iraq and other forms of oppression. In an effort to extend this gesture to the public, Erin offers to shave off the hair of those willing to make a commitment to peace. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago invited the artist to present the Peace Salon as part of the on-going 12×12 series on Independence Day 2008.
A SYMPHONY FOR THE SENSES EATING ART FOR PEACE
Chicago, Illinois – In a gesture some are calling “Yum-Yum Diplomacy,” a Chicago based performance installation artist Genevieve Erin O’Brien has built a replica of The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear reactor site at Yongbyon entirely out of gingerbread.
Multi-city Durational performance
A Vietnamese suitcase is a generally speaking a cardboard box. The “suitcase” serves a particularly temporary purpose, unlike the somewhat indestructible western version of the suitcase, made for on-going travel. I position myself at specific locations around specific cities and ask people to write their sentiments about Vietnam. The thoughts, feelings and memories are written on Joss paper and put in the “suitcase”.