Artistic Work Sample
A webpage with a selection of photographic still images
"Temptations in Fairyland" - A solo performance art commission for the Lancaster Museum of Art & History based on the artist Leonard Greco’s solo exhibition “Fairyland” in MOAH:CEDAR on March 16, 2019. A direct correlation and ancestor to the storytelling and performance art that Unreliable Narrator would be.
Inspiration is derived from French novelist Gustave Flaubert’s “The Temptation of St. Anthony”, which depicts the desert hermit’s confrontation one evening with a series of lavish and lustful hallucinatory temptations. Our contemporary world contains equally alluring distractions that regularly reach out to us in powerfully appealing ways. Jenn puts the story into context through the realm of performance art’s wild history, its pantheon of unusual characters, and coming to terms with being a performance artist himself.
What starts out as a kind of lecture/TED Talk about the relationship between Greco's work and the novel, quickly devolves into a madcap performance about the deliriousness of the history of performance art in general.
"Twinkle: Traveler Beneath the Stars"
A surprising tale that navigates complex the concepts of immigration, genocide, homelessness, religion, politics, fame, and fortune.
Using stars as the central theme, I link the celestial objects to the cultural obsession with celebrity, weaving a story that reminds people that they possess the ability to be their gods and saviors, and exposing the hypocrisy in which religion, nationalism, and capitalism were and are still used as excuses for various atrocities and crimes against humanity throughout history.
