PROJECTS 2005: Meg Duguid

 

  
10 Year Itch

HA

Sat March 19, 2005
March 19 - April 11



HA is a multimedia melding of projects all based on Meg's relationship to slapstick humor.

Utilizing 667Shotwell as if it were her own slapstick home, Meg Duguid will be using the space to create a video of herself waking up and getting dressed, performed through a system of pulleys and interactions with furniture and drawings in the apartment.

 
       
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In conjunction with the installation Meg will be presenting documentation of the Episode Series, a series of performances based in slapstick comedy. Namely Episode 1925, based on Charlie Chaplin?'s film "The Gold Rush," in which Meg eats a licorice purse in a crowded cafe at lunchtime.
 
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Finally throughout the night of the opening, as a part of her series Telling Jokes, Meg will be sporadically wearing shirts that say "Can I tell you a joke." If someone asks her to tell them a joke while she is wearing a shirt, she will cup her hands together as if about to whisper and ask them to open there mouth into which Meg will tell them a joke directly into their mouth. It?s a way of telling a slapstick secret.

  

 
     

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Meg Duguid is a smiler, a laugher, and a joker based in the Bronx, New York working on a series of objects and moments that are based in her compulsion to smile while examining the role humor plays in culture. Meg's recent exhibitions include Dueling DJ’s, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2004; Episode 1916, Art on the Water, DUMBO arts festival, Brooklyn, NY 2004; Episode 150, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA; La Superette, Deitch Projects and Participant Inc, New York, NY; & Spaghetti Dinner, In conjunction with the BON APPETITE! , CCA Graduate Student Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Meg is currently finishing her M.F.A. at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College to be completed in 2005.