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The artwork is conceptual and a blend of performance and installation art. Projects are built around a central theme, are process-driven and are time-based. Each piece is preserved in web form.
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Ruin Me was the sixth aggregate art piece.
A physical representation of burnout, Ruin Me featured original artwork that was only finished once it was destroyed by attendees of the project's opening night.
Accompanying the night was an original score by Scott Weiser which was also ruined.
on display until July 30, 2011
Fivepoints Arthouse
72 Tehama St., Soma
San Francisco
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EkoTable was the fifth aggregate art piece.
EkoTable was a bookend to The Usa Family Estate and was in operation August 28, 2010 to May 7, 2011.
EkoTable was a functional website that allowed consumers in the SF Bay Area the ability to find and shop from producers in their local area. In doing so, consumers could opt out of items made in China.
The launch party was held at San Francisco's 5 Claude Lane Gallery on Saturday August 28, 2010.
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The Usa Family Estate was the fourth piece of the series.
On March 7, 2009 the belongings of the Usa Family were up for auction. The effects of patriarch Donald, his wife Thelma, their children Don, Dick and Judy, grandchildren Jen, Brian, Mike and Emily, and great-grandchild Matthew were all to be sold to the highest bidder.
All items were found objects from second hand stores. Older generation's items were hand made or made in the US, while all of the younger generation's items were entirely made in China.
The project was a life-sized diorama of America's economic crisis, with a storyline told through the belongings of a fictitious family.
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The Sentient Painting was the third in the series, with an exhibition beginning at noon on Saturday July 12, 2008 and lasting until noon on Monday July 14.
This project was a multiple day live painting installation where 3 artists painted 1 painting over the course of 2 days. Visitors were encouraged to lounge and interact with the artists and thus directed the course of the painting.
The project was an inverse of the surrealist exercise the exquisite corpse as the artists colletively functioned as one artist (the corpse.)
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Justification for Grooming was the second piece in the series, which concluded with an exhibition on July 29, 2007. It examined the psychology of male and female beauty rituals.
The installation was customized into Moxie Parlour, a San Francisco hair salon, and transformed the space into a temple for beauty worship. The show climaxed with a performance piece at 7:29pm where any member of the audience could take a cut of Erin's hair.
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16, the series debut, was a collaboration with fellow San Francisco artist Betty Blake which culminated in an exhibition on November 4, 2006.
It was an examination of adolescence and the adult society it reflects as pieces from the artists' past were repurposed and 'framed' through their adult perspectives.
The process of putting on this show was ultimately a repetition of how the original artwork was made- debuting an artwork was eerily similar to coming of age as a teenager.
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