JENNIFER CHAN

 

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2010

A series of amateur object crushing videos made in wonder of paraphilic fetishism on YouTube. Sex and technology merge in the desire for increased hitcount and likeability on my part as artist and visual titulation in the viewer. Random videos spurred by the work of SelawnBrunch.

A girl wonders what she could do for a few more viewcounts on YouTube as a video artist. What do people wanna watch?


paperballcrush.avi with Johnson Ngo.


an enquiry into the tensile strength of sealed bags

Chinese Girl in 1-Inch Heels with Portuguese Egg Tart /穿着一寸高跟鞋的中国女生, 和葡挞.

multiple pastry trample, recorded Siya Chen

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Fill-air. Site-specific installation of wax-casted black air bags.

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image of arm on plinth

Fictive artsale of shitty paintings with Matthieu Martin and Edith Longuet-Allerme
Trinity Bellwoods, Toronto. Theoretically large ones for $20 and small ones for $350


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Vomit Studies: tracing the lineage of vomiting in art and social/art history

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"MirrorrorrirM", March 23 2010. White House
durational performance with Sebastian Koever. 1.5 hours

image of arm on plinth

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Alternative Exhibition Practices
curated by Amanda Haller, The Branch Contemporary Art Gallery.

image of arm on plinth

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2009

THE MARRIAGE PROJECT

a two week performative-documentary hoax.

Wedding Video (32:13)

Portraiture: Matthew Filipowich, Event photos: Mark Shannon

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Torture as Metaphor

multichannel video installation about terrorism, torture, cancer and art. performance with Sebastian Koever.

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FOREVER. 20 min. performance with Paola Savasta, Nuit Blanche 2009

elaborate application of makeup followed by fast, consecutive application and removal of hot waxing strips

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roleplay with strangers to recreate a script appropriated from an encounter at international customs. a medschool student to examines me. quoting early feminist performance.