Skye Fort, "Once on the Lips"
Video
3min 55sec
2022
“Once On The Lips” is a solo video performance which explores tropes relating to being a woman and eating food. This piece draws inspiration from the phrase “once on the lips, forever on the hips” the phenomenon of “women laughing alone with salad,” and the choreography of Britney Spears. Seen through a glossy music video lens, this piece is intended to subvert the ideas we’re fed about the act of consumption.
STATEMENT
Skye Fort is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes theatre, video, performance, music, and installation. Her work focuses on themes of excess and consumption, the environment and destruction, discomfort, failure, and the chaotic and messy aspects of being alive.
Through a combination of disciplines, Skye is interested in exploring non-narrative forms of storytelling and communication. Her work in video and performance centers around the line between attractive and unsettling, specifically as it relates to bodies, marketing, and the environment. Through her performance work, she explores the areas between erotic and disturbing and considers how these lines are used to manipulate our consumption.
Skye’s artistic practice frequently employs metaphor, satire, music, humor, and visceral empathy. She looks for ways to play with the lines between disciplines, to create pieces which evade easy labels and engage critically and emotionally with the world around us.
BIO
Skye Fort is a multidisciplinary artist originally from New Mexico and currently in Philadelphia. After getting a BA in acting from the University of New Mexico, Skye spent 8 years working in Chicago theatre before moving to Baltimore to pursue her MFA at Towson University. As a result of going to grad school for theatre during a pandemic, she discovered and fell in love with solo video performance. She is a company member at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago IL, and a founding member of the Albuquerque based performance art collective “So This is Art.” Recent credits include “Disaster Theatre” (Brick Theatre 2023), “Queer. Futures. Past: I’m a Ghost And So Are You” (Current Space 2022), “What If” (Trap Door Theatre 2022), “Could Have Been/Someone” (Towson University 2022).
Video
3min 55sec
2022
“Once On The Lips” is a solo video performance which explores tropes relating to being a woman and eating food. This piece draws inspiration from the phrase “once on the lips, forever on the hips” the phenomenon of “women laughing alone with salad,” and the choreography of Britney Spears. Seen through a glossy music video lens, this piece is intended to subvert the ideas we’re fed about the act of consumption.
STATEMENT
Skye Fort is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes theatre, video, performance, music, and installation. Her work focuses on themes of excess and consumption, the environment and destruction, discomfort, failure, and the chaotic and messy aspects of being alive.
Through a combination of disciplines, Skye is interested in exploring non-narrative forms of storytelling and communication. Her work in video and performance centers around the line between attractive and unsettling, specifically as it relates to bodies, marketing, and the environment. Through her performance work, she explores the areas between erotic and disturbing and considers how these lines are used to manipulate our consumption.
Skye’s artistic practice frequently employs metaphor, satire, music, humor, and visceral empathy. She looks for ways to play with the lines between disciplines, to create pieces which evade easy labels and engage critically and emotionally with the world around us.
BIO
Skye Fort is a multidisciplinary artist originally from New Mexico and currently in Philadelphia. After getting a BA in acting from the University of New Mexico, Skye spent 8 years working in Chicago theatre before moving to Baltimore to pursue her MFA at Towson University. As a result of going to grad school for theatre during a pandemic, she discovered and fell in love with solo video performance. She is a company member at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago IL, and a founding member of the Albuquerque based performance art collective “So This is Art.” Recent credits include “Disaster Theatre” (Brick Theatre 2023), “Queer. Futures. Past: I’m a Ghost And So Are You” (Current Space 2022), “What If” (Trap Door Theatre 2022), “Could Have Been/Someone” (Towson University 2022).
Video
3min 55sec
2022
“Once On The Lips” is a solo video performance which explores tropes relating to being a woman and eating food. This piece draws inspiration from the phrase “once on the lips, forever on the hips” the phenomenon of “women laughing alone with salad,” and the choreography of Britney Spears. Seen through a glossy music video lens, this piece is intended to subvert the ideas we’re fed about the act of consumption.
STATEMENT
Skye Fort is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes theatre, video, performance, music, and installation. Her work focuses on themes of excess and consumption, the environment and destruction, discomfort, failure, and the chaotic and messy aspects of being alive.
Through a combination of disciplines, Skye is interested in exploring non-narrative forms of storytelling and communication. Her work in video and performance centers around the line between attractive and unsettling, specifically as it relates to bodies, marketing, and the environment. Through her performance work, she explores the areas between erotic and disturbing and considers how these lines are used to manipulate our consumption.
Skye’s artistic practice frequently employs metaphor, satire, music, humor, and visceral empathy. She looks for ways to play with the lines between disciplines, to create pieces which evade easy labels and engage critically and emotionally with the world around us.
BIO
Skye Fort is a multidisciplinary artist originally from New Mexico and currently in Philadelphia. After getting a BA in acting from the University of New Mexico, Skye spent 8 years working in Chicago theatre before moving to Baltimore to pursue her MFA at Towson University. As a result of going to grad school for theatre during a pandemic, she discovered and fell in love with solo video performance. She is a company member at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago IL, and a founding member of the Albuquerque based performance art collective “So This is Art.” Recent credits include “Disaster Theatre” (Brick Theatre 2023), “Queer. Futures. Past: I’m a Ghost And So Are You” (Current Space 2022), “What If” (Trap Door Theatre 2022), “Could Have Been/Someone” (Towson University 2022).