ABOUT THE C3 EVENT
Artist + curator conversation with Coco Dolle + Justin Hoover
Thurs Dec 5, 7-8:30pm
Join us for an evening of conversation between artist and curator at c3:initiative.

ABOUT COCO DOLLE

Coco Dolle is a New York based artist and curator whose work explores themes of the body, identity and feminism. With a multimedia approach to drawing, painting, photography, video and movement, Dolle’s practice challenges the confines of social stereotypes and examines the position of women in culture. Trained in modern dance, Coco studied painting with Larry Poons, while attending the artist’s salons of late sculptor Louise Bourgeois, fashioning her work from pop art concepts into social territories.

Over the past decade, Coco has developed a personal mode of working that merges the roles of artist, curator and performer, with her performance art project Legacy Fatale , built on notions of ancient mysticism and punk leadership, and with her curatorial presence under the moniker, Milk and Night .

Her work has been exhibited and performed widely including at The Queens Museum (NY), Czech Center (NYC), Manchester Art Gallery (UK), Nagoya Art (Japan), BAM (NYC), Art In Odd Places (AIOP), Grace Exhibition Space, Berkeley Museum (CA), SPRING/BREAK Art Show (NY), Catinca Tabacaru Gallery (NYC), Mary Ryan Gallery (NYC), Andrew Edlin Gallery (NYC), Yukiko Kawase Galerie (France) and Deitch Projects Art Parade (NYC).
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ABOUT THE DISJECTA EXHIBITION
PUNKDEISM
On view at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, 8371 N Interstate Ave, Portland, OR 97217
Dec 8 - Jan 14
Opening Reception | Saturday, December 7th, 2019, 6-9pm
Punkdeism Dances, public participatory dances, 7pm
Free and open to the public.

Exhibition Hours: December 8 - January 19, 2019
Friday - Sunday, 12-5pm
Free and open to the public

Coco Dolle activates her concept project Legacy Fatale at Disjecta to bring an immersive installation experience of female empowerment and feminine mystique. Her exhibition PUNKDEISM is the amalgamation of her multi-faceted work which has morphed over the last ten years and is deeply rooted in the practice of her New York based performance art troupe Legacy Fatale. The troupe's mission is to raise neo-feminist awareness through community art happenings, movement and nature. Taking cues from ancient matriarchal myths and urban politics of resistance, Legacy Fatale is Coco Dolle’s inclusive social practice open to female-identifying artists, dancers, healers, educators, moms and activists. According to Dolle, the group’s founder: “Female leadership isn’t a social achievement [but] an educative tool. Legacy Fatale is an inter-generational concept that needs to breathe outside of constructed social systems.”

Made as a site-specific installation for Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, the exhibition PUNKDEISM displays an array of mediums including mural painting, drawings, watercolors, photography, video, a hand-sewn-fabric wall installation, and a public performance happening. The exhibition features a participatory community space, Punk Alter: Glamazon Activation Photobooth; a thirty five foot mural collage, Black Bark Diary; and an ongoing dance video projection, Harken the Veil.