Rachelle Beaudoin, "Scripts for Connection"
2022
Video
1 Minute 50 Seconds
Scripts for Connection uses the language of contemporary parenting styles. The phrases of gentle parenting are subverted with a computer-generated voice showing how unnatural it feels and highlighting my own struggle to use this approach.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In performances, videos and animations, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet.
I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis.
Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty.
ARTIST BIO
Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables, and performance to explore feminist identity within popular culture. She attended the College of the Holy Cross and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions, Welcome to the Bob House, at 3SArtspace in Portsmouth, NH, 2016 and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet at the Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH 2019. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO 2013. She was a Fulbright Core Scholar artist-in-residence at quartier21 in Vienna, Austria in 2014. In 2015, she was a Clowes Fund Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH. She currently teaches at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and lives in New Hampshire.
2022
Video
1 Minute 50 Seconds
Scripts for Connection uses the language of contemporary parenting styles. The phrases of gentle parenting are subverted with a computer-generated voice showing how unnatural it feels and highlighting my own struggle to use this approach.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In performances, videos and animations, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet.
I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis.
Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty.
ARTIST BIO
Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables, and performance to explore feminist identity within popular culture. She attended the College of the Holy Cross and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions, Welcome to the Bob House, at 3SArtspace in Portsmouth, NH, 2016 and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet at the Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH 2019. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO 2013. She was a Fulbright Core Scholar artist-in-residence at quartier21 in Vienna, Austria in 2014. In 2015, she was a Clowes Fund Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH. She currently teaches at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and lives in New Hampshire.
2022
Video
1 Minute 50 Seconds
Scripts for Connection uses the language of contemporary parenting styles. The phrases of gentle parenting are subverted with a computer-generated voice showing how unnatural it feels and highlighting my own struggle to use this approach.
ARTIST STATEMENT
In performances, videos and animations, I confront stereotypes and tropes of gender representation to create a space of uncertainty. I research and deconstruct the ways in which women are portrayed in popular culture and on the Internet.
I use humor and sarcasm as an entry point into issues of gender, power and class in order to call out the invisible structures and sexism that pervades both the physical world and the online world. Often employing physical comedy, my videos document performances in which I explore the pressures and contradictions I face on a daily basis.
Since becoming a mother, this experience has become part of my work. I have created videos to address the reality of caring for children and parents. Personal, sometimes awkward, yet open and inviting, the work emphasizes the physicality of the body, showing both vulnerability and strength, following in the tradition of feminist performance art. This work comes from a place of experience and honesty.
ARTIST BIO
Rachelle Beaudoin is an artist who uses video, wearables, and performance to explore feminist identity within popular culture. She attended the College of the Holy Cross and holds a Master’s degree in Digital+Media from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including solo exhibitions, Welcome to the Bob House, at 3SArtspace in Portsmouth, NH, 2016 and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Internet at the Magenta Suite, Exeter, NH 2019. She was an Artist-in-Residence at Anderson Ranch in Snowmass, CO 2013. She was a Fulbright Core Scholar artist-in-residence at quartier21 in Vienna, Austria in 2014. In 2015, she was a Clowes Fund Fellow at Vermont Studio Center. In 2019, she was an artist-in-residence at Canterbury Shaker Village, Canterbury, NH. She currently teaches at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and lives in New Hampshire.