User:YouAndBrian/StacyMakishi

Stacy Makishi (born 19__) is a Hawaii-born artist who works in a variety of media, including site-specific installation art, video, new writing, physical theatre and live art. She is artistic director of runt, a multi-media company that celebrates creativity and collaboration and hosts international workshops.

Makishi's work often reconfigures the familiar into the foreign. Common themes include risk and resistance, sublime and abject, desire and deviance. Her work often employs surreal humour to explore these themes.

Performances

 * The Not Quite Yet (2008)
 * Bull: The True Story (2007)
 * Room 474 (2007)
 * Scavengers (2005/2006) with Joshua Sofaer

Writings

 * Babel Junction (2004)
 * Killing Time (2004)

Film and Video

 * Eat More SPAM (2007)
 * Bass Desires (2007)
 * Case Histories (2001) with Megan Frazier

Publications

 * New Waste Land (ed. Michael Horowitz, 2007)
 * Velocities, The Best of Apples and Snakes (ed. Maja Prausnitz, 2003, Black Dog Press)