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MC Coble
MC Coble (born Mary Coble) is a queer American artist who currently works in Washington, D.C. and uses they/them pronouns. They are a mixed-media artists working in the art-activism realm. Through their work, they address many issues such as discrimination, sexuality, gender and more. They also utilize their body as the central element of many of their works. Their most notable works are Note to Self (2005) and Blood Script (2008).

Early Life and Education
MC Coble was born in 1978 and is from Julian, North Carolina. Coble received their Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2001. They then went on to receive their Master of Fine Arts from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 2004. They originally began their art career as a photographer but later turned their attention to performance art.

Binding Ritual, Daily Routine (2004)
Binding Ritual, Daily Routine is a performance piece that is shown through three video stills. The videos are 11 minutes and 16 seconds long. The videos show Coble taping and re-taping her breasts with adhesive tape. They do this repeatedly throughout the video, revealing irritated skin when the tape is removed.

Note to Self (2005)
Note to Self was a performance piece by MC Coble which was performed on September 2, 2005, at the Connor Contemporary Art Gallery in Washington D.C. The performance consisted of MC Coble sitting on a chair with their back turned to the audience while being tattooed with the names of victims of LGBTQ-related hate crimes. For the solo performance, Coble collected 436 names of gay, lesbian, bi, and transgender individuals that died due to hate crimes. These tattoos were done without ink so each name was visible in blood. After each tattoo, the blood was imprinted on a sheet of paper. The entire performance lasted 12 hours.

MARKER NEW YORK (2006), MARKER DC (2007), MARKER MADRID (2008)
 MARKER New York (2006), MARKER DC (2007), and MARKER MADRID (2008)  were a series of performances where MC Coble would stand for three hours, and allow participants to write derogatory words on her body that meant something to the participant themselves. The seventy-five most reoccurring words were then used in her subsequent work, Blood Script.

Blood Script (2008)
Blood Script was a performance piece by MC Coble which was performed in 2008 at the PULSE art fair in New York City. MC Coble had 75 hateful words tattooed onto their body without ink. These 75 words were taken from t he over 200 words derived previously in their series of MAKER performances. The words were tattooed in a decorative font and appeared on their body in blood. After being tattooed, each insult was captured by placing a sheet of paper over the blood, creating an imprint that was then displayed on the gallery wall. This performance, in total, lasted twenty-four hours.

Source (2010)
Source was a mixed-media solo exhibition by MC Coble. Source took place in 2010 at the Conner Contemporary Art Gallery (now the CONNERSMITH) in Washington, D.C. Source included videos, a drawing, and a live performance. Prior to the performance, MC Coble collected two-hundred samples of water from residential homes in Washington, D.C. The performance consisted of them climbing a ladder, grabbing a sample of water, going back down the ladder, going up a different ladder, and then pouring the sample through a large filtration system. At the end of the performance, they took a drink of the water and then shared the rest with the audience. This performance lasted many hours.

Deferral (2013)
Deferral, performed and installed at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. in 2013, addressed FDA regulations banning men who have had sex with other men from donating blood since 1977. Coble collected slogans for blood donation campaigns and printed them on separation screens. Coble had blood drawn on site and then used it to paint the word deferral in Morse code on the screens. When asked in an interview with The Huffington Post about why they chose to do a performance on this topic, Coble responded that it is "...an interest in queer issues of social injustice threads throughout my work. The White House is across from The Corcoran as is the Red Cross-- and so everything just came together." Coble says of their performances,"It is not about hurting myself. It's the only way I can think to express these ideas that my audience will have a strong enough connection to."

Protest in Pride (2014)
Protest in Pride is a multi-media exhibition that included a workshop, publication, installation, and live performance. This exhibition took place in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2014. The workshop allowed the public in Gothenburg to make their own fist print onto a flag to march with at the West Pride LGBTQ Festival. The installation included 20 large raised fist banners hung in a library in Gothenburg. The banners were then used for the performance aspect of the exhibition, where they were carried during the Pride parade at the festival. The publication was 44 pages and distributed during the parade. The publication highlighted the raised list symbol through history and was funded partly by the West Pride LGBTQ Festival.

This is not a party (2016)
This is not a party was a performance piece by MC Coble that was performed in 2016 at the 13 Festivalen in Gothenburg, Sweden. prior to this performance, they hung large disco balls filled with protest materials such as eggs, flour, and more. For the performance, Coble swung a bat at the disco balls, knocking them down and exposing their contents. The audience viewed this performance from a birds-eye view, as Coble was in a basement location. The performance lasted for an hour and was a part of the two-day workshop, Dancing to the News, co-organized with Artist Ulla Hvejsel.

* This is not an exhaustive list*

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