TWO WOMEN DO THREE THINGS // new work by MOTHERGIRL on Feb 2

Still from Every Aldi in Chicago, Mothergirl

Two Women Do Three Things is an installation of three successive performances at Happy Collaborationists Gallery from February 2-23.

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When we are sexualized, we are somehow at our most powerful and our most vulnerable. Most powerful, because our bodies are the visual currency that underpins consumer culture. Most vulnerable, because this currency, our image, belongs to the culture, and not to ourselves.

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Mothergirl, Katy Albert and Sophia Hamilton, is a performance duo living and working in Chicago, IL. Their performances range from installation, durational event, and guided audience interaction. Through the use of persona, sculpture, and costume, they create metaphor environments to interact with and observe.

Currently HATCH residents at Chicago Artists’ Coalition and 2012 ACRE residents, Mothergirl has performed in Rough Trade II, Out of Site, Defibrillator Gallery, Roxaboxen, and the Milk Factory Gallery. They are founders and hosts of Bits and Pieces:  A Monthly Salon for Ideas and Experiments.

More information about Mothergirl can be found at www.mothergirlperformance.com

Happy Collaborationists is the curatorial collective of Anna Trier and Meredith Weber. “Happy C” provides exhibition opportunities for performance, installation and media works – including but not limited to solo exhibitions, public programming and private event planning. Together Anna and Meredith also collaborate on their own performance art practice under the name Meredith and Anna.

More information about Happy Collaborationists can be found at www.happycollaborationists.com