Monet Clark

A performance, video and photographic artist working on both sides of the camera in wryly humorous, semi-autobiographical, feminist pieces.

The CASUALTIES of CAPITALISM’S COMMERCE of TOXIC SUBSTANCES

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To read more on the context and politics behind some of my work…check out my essay piece with the above title which can be found with these pieces on my website: Performance with Toxic Tee Pee (2007),
Pretend We’re Dead (2007) and OPUS EXTERNUS DOMICILIUM (2017)

“Clark’s Pirate Island Performance Series deliver us squarely into the dystopian reality of the ‘canary in the coal mine’ phenomenon, which people with Environmental Illness experience. These works depict living on the fringes of a society in denial about the increasing toxicity of the world. Along with Clark’s Poisoning/Phoenix Performance Documents series, and BUNNY GIRL, this series confronts the politics which sweep toxic contamination under the rug. They expose us to the casualties of capitalism’s commerce of toxic substances, the people (and animals, in BUNNY GIRL), which are treated as expendable to market gains…. “

The piece is also published in this online magazine piece: https://issuu.com/dynamism/docs/dynamism_01 pages 52-58

 

Opus Externus Domicilium essay/performance for still camera piece, published in DYNAMISM

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Click to see and read my piece: THE CASUALTIES OF CAPIALISM’S COMMERCE OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES/OPUS EXTERNUS DOMICILIUM. 
To see the whole magazine click the image!

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The Fine Line Between Sexy and Sickness, —Hyperallergic, Peter Dobey

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“Tall & thin Clark easily embodies the current beauty ideal, which is part of what makes it so effective when she ruptures the continuity of the illusion which she has created…she indicts the viewer for objectifying her, but desire is a double edged sword as she is complicit in this objectification.”–Hyperallergic