“ME NOT” explores the essence of femininity beyond the biological. The project includes a series of drawings, videos, digital paintings, and in Nashville, a community outreach performance in collaboration with Vanderbilt University.
In Forster’s interactive cactus plucking at the Rymer Gallery, she asks people to BYOC (bring your own cactus) and pluck off its spine … This is not a young girl tearing off petals from a flower, reciting to oneself “he loves me, he loves me not.” This is the painful removal of the ingrained sharpness of a gender binary. Forster is slowly plucking away the patriarchy until it becomes nothing but a phallus hung up to dry, like the limp cactus devoid of its spine.
Excerpt from an essay by Alicia Eler
ME NOT
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Type: event
- Location: The Rymer GAllery, 233 5th Ave N, Nashville, TN , 37219, US
- Starts: Oct 3 2015 at 8:35AM
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