Casey Jenkins
Performance & Installation Artist
Images
1: sMother – Durational performance & exhibition to premiere at Venice International Performance Art Week, Dec 2016
2-4: Casting Off My Womb, DVAA, Darwin 2013 – 28 day durational performance & exhibition in which I knitted every day from yarn inserted in my vagina, creating a long passage to mark one full menstrual cycle
5: Programmed to Reproduce, Fesitval of Live Art Melbourne, 2016 – Performance & exhibition involving collation, recitation & reproduction of gendered web abuse directed at my Casting Off My Womb piece
6&7: Knitted banners depicting internet comments & knitting machine in action at ArtsHouse, Melbourne, 2016
8: Give Us A Smile Sweetheart, Meridian Exhibit for Midsumma, 45 Downstairs Gallery, Melbourne, 2016 – UV activated baby blanket – the words ‘dyke’, ‘whore’ & ‘slut’ are visible only in the sunlight
9: Cunt Fling-Up Feminist Street Craft, Melbourne, Berlin, Paris, New York, 2010-present – Crafted genitalia flung over power-lines in the manner gangs are said to fling shoes to claim territory
10: Femme Fight Club, Melbourne, Bristol, Adelaide, Paris, Berlin 2011-present -Women-only non-spectator fight club – breaking stereotypes about feminine passivity, rather than bones
Video
sMother + recent work
Examples of Casey’s performance work that have come to include large knitted reproductions of web abuse
Community & Street Art
Media coverage of some of Casey’s community engagement & street art works: ABC Sunday Arts & Making It Handmade documentary excerpts