Episode 05: Monet Clark, Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
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Monet Clark, Eco-feminist and performance based video/photographic artist
Clark’s elaborate and wryly humorous characters are inspired by subculture, pop culture, superheroes, marginalized groups, history. With them she addresses sexual stereotypes, objectification, cultural taboos, ritual and nature’s sentience. Currently her works examine the connection between cultural bias, misogyny and climate change.
Pictured: Monet Clark in her film “Bunny Girl,”
The strength of the piece is the character’s tender process of becoming animal— contrasted with her bare vulnerability and her inscribed sex-worker sexuality. This Playboy Bunny has gone feral from its social role, now potentially available to be with multitudes of other animals and plants. “Bunny Girl” is the product of a biopolitics in which power is not located in the gaze, as it has been for many feminist performance artists, but in the contingency of the body within an increasingly hostile ecology. —Anne Leslie Selcer, Hyperallergic, June, 2017
Clark’s recent work NOW, is a 10 screen, large scale, audience participatory, performance video installation and she is working on durational/ritual performances and performance-based photographs in nature.
She is currently working on her Völva Saga series, wryly portraying archetypical yet oft shunned female characters, exposing internalized misogyny, exploring animal rights and environmental concerns. For more on the ideology behind the Völva Saga series, and how to donate to support their production see: http://monetclark.com/the-theory-behind-the-volva-saga-series/