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Installation photo, Stoveworks open studios, 2024

IMPROPER OF MEN AND ANIMALS
2024-ongoing
Single Channel video

1 minute, looping
Found images
Audio by Jascha Narveson

 

Improper of Men and Animals is a structural film archiving images of women in different horizontal positions. As reclining nudes, prone women are a foundational trope of art history; however, fragile, hysterical, sexy, witchy, sick, and/or defenseless, the prone woman is an icon throughout culture.  “Improper of men and animals” is quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary in the etymology of the word prone. ‘Prone’ may connote bodily position, but it also connotes predilection to. In this second connotation of ‘prone woman’, I find potential for power.

SCENES FROM AN ILLNESS
Single Channel video
6:14, looping
2024-ongoing

Scenes from an Illness presents text descriptions of images collected in response to the continued forms of double standards, discrimination, and inequality all those who identify as women experience.

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©2024 by Nancy Nowacek

Nancy Nowacek artist is a research-based artist, designer, and educator working in visual art, public art, social practice, and socially-engaged contexts. Her first project was Karoake Ice, with Marina Zurkow and Katie Salen.

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