Amber Hawk Swanson makes durational performances, lifeworks, and sculptures (more...). She is currently revisiting a component of her Amber Doll Project (2005–11) that involved archiving cinematic rape scenes and shopping for equivalent costumes worn by each film’s victim at the fast fashion retailer Forever21. Costume Sketches, which explored the raced, gendered, and classed contours of the notion of “asking for it” in the context of self-fashioning and fast fashion, went viral in 2007, resulting in the project’s research-based contours being overwritten by sensation. Hawk Swanson’s current project continues to ask how race, fashion, and rape script one another.
Hawk Swanson recently worked on The Harmony Show along with Davecat and Sidore Kuroneko.
Hawk Swanson recently worked on The Harmony Show along with Davecat and Sidore Kuroneko.
