to be titled

To Be Titled is an interactive playdate created by Zhenesse with special guest hosts nightly at chashama's 112 West 44th Street gallery (between Sixth Avenue and Broadway), October 6th – 25th, 2007, Thursday – Monday, 9PM-1AM. Zhenesse plays the role of "Blandie," a living doll housed inside the "Blandie Mansion" – your playground to dress up and manipulate Blandie to your heart's desire. 

 

When Toys R Us closes for the night "Blandie," comes alive in her pink doll box and awaits your arrival. Once inside, the Blandie Mansion Manager will introduce you to your tools of play including the couture closet, prop box, and coiffure line. After you style your Blandie you take her to the fashion shoot photo studio and immortalize her image.

 

To Be Titled casts the audience in the role of image stylist, and presents a meditation on fashion, still image, personal identity, and role-play. The audience will enter individually or in a group of up to four people. Feel free to bring your own items to the Blandie Mansion to create your ideal image. All images created will be documented. A catalogue of images from the show with their creation documentation will be released in January 2008.

 

Furthering the growth of an interconnected community of New York City artists, guest hosts join To Be Titled from the worlds of burlesque, multi media arts, street art, music, drag, and more. The guest hosts fill the roles of Door Liaison & Mansion Management. Featured hosts scheduled for playdates are Julie Altas Muz, Tigger, Kate Valentine, Glenn Marla, Geo Wyeth, Sharon Husband, Logan Hardcore, Epiphany, Acid Betty, Grace Les, Edible Dazzle, Machine Dazzle, Neal Medlyn, C. Damage, Celso, Sujin Lee, Lukki, and others to be announced. 

about Zhenesse

Devoted to creating Live Lobby Art environments for the public Zhenesse regularly brings a little bit of downtown to mid- and uptown's unsuspecting audiences. Her artwork blends an interest in the performance of everyday life, community interaction, and pop culture sociology into a form that is firmly rooted in the visual engagement of fine art styles while also physically provoking the audience with the stunning effect of liveness.

 

Zhenesse has presented interactive performance installations and Live Lobby Art at Galapagos, P.S. 122, The Slipper Room, New York University, CUNY, The Red Room, the Deitch Art Parade, Collective:Unconscious, the Scope Art Fair, and at a number of chashama's friendly venues. At the tme of the event, Zhenesse was co-curator for the Midnight Art Series #2-Performance.