ANN HIRSCH will be workshopping a new performance piece that reflects upon her time spent on Vh1's reality dating show Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement Affair. Built upon a more traditional theatre structure, the piece appropriates actual dialogue from the show and represents it in a way that further dramatizes the love affair shared between Hirsch and Frank the Entertainer. Ann Hirsch is a video and performance artist based in New York. Her work engages with the contemporary portrayal of women in media.
http://therealannhirsch.com/

ANGELA WASHKO will investigate the effects of a childhood spent consuming the idealized love projected in the 1990's anime cartoon Sailor Moon and breast inadequacy through video, sound, and aggressive physical actions. Through an interdisciplinary practice, Washko investigates how consumerism and materialism manifest in narratives within media, advertising, video games, identity construction and impact how women are perceived in contemporary culture.
http://angelawashko.com/

NATE HILL Using pictures of women without their permission, Nate Hill will portray a character reflecting upon his violent, inappropriate desires for them in a narrated slideshow. Nate Hill is a performance artist currently portraying a sensitive serial killer on YouTube in 100 videos.
www.natehillisnuts.com/

Angela Washko, Ann Hirsch, Nate Hill

ANGELA WASHKO [NEW YORK CITY, NY]

Through an interdisciplinary practice spanning performance, video, and installation, Angela Washko investigates the effects of consumerism and materialism in creating the foundations of American lifestyle. Washko frequently utilizes imagery reminiscent of the French Rococo to question the era's notion of a beauty achieved through the excessive accumulation of frivolous objects and draws parallels to contemporary American society's emphasis on breasts in the media. A backlash against planned obsolescence, her often vibrantly colored video sets, performance stages, and installations are constructed with items recovered from dumpsters and Dollar-Store materials marketed as disposable. Ultimately Washko's works are a call-to-action, demanding a drastic attitude change in our collective consciousness. Washko is a current artist-in-residence at Flux Factory and has recently completed residencies at Gullkistan in Iceland, Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside in Troy, and The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally including most recently at LUMEN in NYC, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, Garage Gallery in San Diego, Carnival of e-Creativity in New Dehli, Videopolis in Barcelona, and The Budapest Short Film Festival.

Angela Washko: www.angelawashko.com

Ann HirschANN HIRSCH [NEW YORK CITY, NY]

ANN HIRSCH {NEW YORK CITY, NY] Ann Hirsch is an amateur social scientist, professional microfamer but mainly a performance artist whose recent projects include The Scandalishious Project in which she paraded as a college freshman on YouTube. With over 1.8 million hits on her videos she gained Internet notoriety as a faux hipster (www.youtube.com/user/scandalishious and scandalishious.com).
Hirsch's newest performance can currently be viewed online at Vh1.com as a contestant on the reality dating series Frank the Entertainer...In a Basement Affair. She has recently completed residences at the Contemporary Artist's Center in Troy, New York, Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida and Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, New York. Hirsch received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from Syracuse University.

Ann Hirsch �cewebrity� : www.youtube.com/user/scandalishious Ann Hirsch: www.therealannhirsch.com/

NATE HILL [NYC, NY]

Punch Me Panda I'm a panda. You can punch me. I wear a chest protector. You wear boxing gloves. It's free. No parties and don't send me as a surprise. I prefer one on one, but roommates are fine. It's a safe place to punch someone.