caroline contillo

oh hey, i did the cover art for sarah’s new solo record!

you can buy it at her website, here.

The above video is “space seeing - space hearing” made by Valie Export in 1973, and i have been hypnotized by it in the halls of galleries twice now. First, at the feminist performance art exhibit at the academie der kunst in berlin, and more recently as part of the here is every exhibition [...]

I just discovered the strange and beautiful collage work of nicole natri. her website is well worth a visit.

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Anyone who knows me knows of my affinity for performance art, particularly that of the feminist variety. It was a lucky turn of events, then, that during my vacation to Berlin with S. this past week that a feminist video and performance art conference was taking place at the Akademie der Kunst, with a really [...]

If any of the 3 - 4 people who read this blog regularly were interested in purchasing me an expensive gift, allow me to direct you to one of the most interesting galleries of oddities i’ve come across on the web. I discovered this site through an add in the american folk art museum’s [...]

processions, seasonal festivals, the movement of the planets through their cyclical positions in the heavens, ritual decadence, asceticism, the cosmic kiss of billiards, the constant battle of the dionysian versus the apollonian desires. i’ve been thinking about medieval mystery pageants lately, and they make me want to trek up to the cloisters and move through [...]

I’m not a fan of hot weather. I’ll take subzero icy temperatures over a humid new york summer any day of the week. So, when i happened upon the documentary Art from the Arctic, I immediately e-mailed the creators of the founding project Cape Farewell and asked them if they needed anyone to help out [...]

Perhaps on my birthday weekend I’ll finally see Kembra Pfahler in action.

I came across this woman’s photography on flickr while i was searching for images of Haverstraw, NY to illustrate a post I was writing about my history as a diner waitress. Sometimes before work I would go on long drives up the Hudson River until I was almost lost and then walk around towns with [...]

Here’s a video compilation of some of the performace artist’s best work. i first heard of patty when she was standing outside of the coat check room i was working in, talking about how she “thought the eel was dead, but it was just stunned. so when we were in the bathtub together, it got [...]