HeyJaredOONA
intellectual masturbation. a love letter to the surveillance machine. i'm an anonymous artist. this substack is about my series Dear David, a performance and video art series that uses CCTV footage to question human touch within the surveillance machine
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You Might Also Enjoy (opens the original)
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SIX WEEKS UNTIL MY WEDDING!!! gotta be quick - have bride stuff to do - so I’ll tease you with these references instead….Jill Magid, Evidence Locker: the artist spent one month in Liverpool and had the police document her every movement via surveillance cameras. Throughout the course of her surveillance, she became close with the police surveilling her. Close enough that by end she rides off into the sunset with one of them. That’s the image below. Police footage of the artist riding off in
Musings on Privacy (Or Everything But My Face) (opens the original)
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500 strangers have touched my breasts (see Look Touch Own). I’ve changed a tampon in front of a Refik Anadol installation at MoMA. And “shy” is the last word anyone would use to describe me, let alone OONA. Yet, never my face. Never my identity. Privacy has been at the center of my practice since inception. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tdz4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fp
I'm A Dumb Blonde! (opens the original)
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A friend asked, “why blonde?” “I want a hot and vain summer”I say it because I know it will make him laugh. and i like laughter. It’s fun to play up for an audience of one. he laughed. Its partially true, of course. But my intention behind going blonde was much less measured, borderline chaotic, and incredibly expensive. It goes like this: I tell my hairdresser: “I feel like i’m just too old to dye my hair, like I’ve passed that phase.”She stops “you?! t
The Tyranny of The Structureless, The Cabal (opens the original)
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Within the myopic digital/crypto/web3/whatever-you-want-to—rebrand-it landscape, this week there was much discussion of ‘THE CABAL.’ <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1638" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1hOA!,w_1456,c_l
Home Residency (opens the original)
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Or in other words, returning to the unglorious routine maintenance of life as an emerging artist. Where are my finances? Did I document my work properly? How do I share my work with wider audiences? For the past five years, I’ve been giving burnout a rim job. Never fully falling in, but circling it’s orbit. This summer I did pretty much the same: 81 artworks sold in 3 weeks time, a demanding performance that nearly got me arrested, viral attention with 100M views, and international travel on a b
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