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Wall Caress

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:35:08 +0000

Download and print out this card, cut in half — give second half to friend. Cut out a hole in along the dotted line. Use to caress wall. If you like you can draw a dotted line where you travel leaving a path for others.

poetry engine

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:42:07 +0000

Collaborative studies with John O’Neil of Conduit Studios.

This poetry engine captures your mouse movement and creates a poem based on it. The poetic structure is based on the work of Marina Tsvetaeva and Rainer Maria Rilke.

This poetry engine doesn’t work with mouse movement and has a slightly different sentence structure (based on the surrealist game). Hit the bar on the bottom left to create a new poem.

Envirotouchers In Florida

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:10:47 +0000

Tracy and I just got back from Tallahassee Florida where our show opened at Gallery 621.

The night was a lot of fun. Great crowd, fun bands + cute dogs!

We had the Becoming-Cloud suit available for people to get their cloud portraits taken.

Canines seem to be a very enthusiastic audience for cloud-becomings.

Constellation blankets in the foreground, parking-lot line drawings behind.

Root pack and photo documentation

Woman looking at documentation of the Parking-lot line drawings.

Girl pondering snow-ball holder.

Boy concentrating really hard on cloud-becoming.

Opportunity to snuggle with a bit of the environment, in this case the broom.

Even to the senses of man and fish

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:47:57 +0000

Six channel video installation. A musing on the relationship between man and nature. For the exhibit “Mediated Nature” at Oberlin College

Waterfall: A love story

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:51:28 +0000

Countless years ago, the dark, ruthless waterfall hunter and broken superhero Black Diamond fell in love with one of his lovely prey, the tender-hearted waterfall known as Jonya Foss. The exact details of their unusual affair is unknown but we are fortunate to have these mystical fragments Black Diamond left behind – including cryptic drawings, photographs, love letters and home video footage – that merely hint at the length, beauty and tragedy of their story. These fragments were discovered near the now-dry beds of Jonya Foss. These artifacts have now been assembled to try to make sense of the broken narrative that was left behind. They are calling upon you dear viewers to help unravel this awkward & enchanting love story.

Collaboration with Mark Shepherd. Video, photographs and artifacts. Presented at Wieden and Kennedy

Envirotouchers in Chicago

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:06:16 +0000

CHICAGO – Woman Made Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new exhibition, Dig In, Float Up. This exhibition features wearable sculpture, photography and video created during Connerly and Featherstone’s ongoing investigation into how to create a more meaningful connection with the world around us. Included in the show are examples Envirotouchers, a series of prototypes designed to create a more connected world. These include a wearable cloud-suit which allows the wearer to transcend their everyday experience and to experience cloud-like thoughts as well as a root-growing backpack that enables its wearer to grow into and transmit and/or absorb molecules from his or her environment.

Running from March 6 – April 19th 2009, this playful exhibition helps us to re-imagine our connections to our environment by replacing rationality with sensuality and isolation with relationship.
Woman Made Gallery
685 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri noon-7 p.m. / Sat-Sun noon-4 p.m. / Admission: Free
www.womanmade.org

Press Release
For hi-res images please e-mail Krista

Why do I move through my environment in isolation when it is so obviously alive, breathing and reaching out to touch me? When there seem to be such intense opportunities for exchange and interpenetration? I walk down the sidewalk and find the branch of a tree gingerly grazing my cheek. A lamppost runs its light over my skin. What happens if I return the caress?

Envirotouchers are artists Tracy Featherstone and Krista Connerly’s response to these questions. A series of prototypes for a more connected world, they seek to replace rationality with sensuality and isolation with relationship. We often get stuck in a relationship-rut with our environment, wearing down the same path to work and back or ignoring the (arguably) tender call of a car-alarm. Envirotouchers offers a simple and playful solution to this by allowing us re-imagine our selves and our relationship to our built and natural environment. Through this series of actions and wearable sculptures individuals can experiment with and ultimately create new and individualized environmental connections.

human/sand collaboration

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:05:54 +0000

Sandmounds are a collaboration between human and sand. The sculptures create a place for reflection and vacation fantasy.

Rootpack

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:03:46 +0000

Rootpack enables its wearer to grow into and transmit and/or absorb molecules from his or her environment. The extra connection and nutrition boosts the wearer’s functionality and sensitivity to the selected surroundings.

Becoming-Cloud Suit

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:59:21 +0000

Becoming-Cloud Suit is an inflatable sculpture that enables an individual to experience the levitation, contemplation, and other qualities of cloud-ness.

Download the Becoming-Cloud Instructions

Collection Belt

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:53:04 +0000

Collection Belt gathers your relationship with the environment and holds it in solid form so that others may wear, experience and absorb it.

Download the instructions for the Collection Belt