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Southern Exposure is pleased to announce Makeover, an exhibition with eight projects that explore the individual desire for improvement and faith in the emancipatory power of personal development. These projects include genuine quests for profound metamorphosis, playful experiments, desperate attempts to seem more impressive, and glimpses into the pitfalls of constantly striving for progress and improvement. Change is in the air – what does our desire for self-improvement say about us?

At Southern Exposure, visitors can be made over by artists, discover aspirational products and ideas, and learn methods for improved self-presentation. The collaborative team Mutant Salon (Marvin Astorga, Elisa Harkins, Young Joon Kwak, Alli Miller) creates an installation that is part beauty salon, part experimental performance space, and offers beautification services at the Opening Reception on September 11th and the 20th Street Block Party on September 12th.

As part of their line of luxury products to improve our lives, The Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt, Nina Sarnelle) showcases special contact lenses that modify the wearer’s physical appearance and transform vision with features such as Hue Shift and Gaussian Blur. The Feminist Economics Department (The FED) presents Give Me Cred!, an initiative to craft supplemental narrative credit reports to help potential landlords see you as more than a number. For Makeover, this alternative credit reporting process is presented in a comic book illustrated by Elizabeth Beier. Give Me Cred! will provide alternative credit reports on Fridays by appointment throughout the exhibition.

Takes on the culture and language of self-help are offered in Michael Friedman’s performative author’s reading and Scott Vermeire’s discussion of the transformative benefits of satanism and the occult.

Other works in the exhibition explore various cultures of transformation, and reflect on the potential impacts of personal change. Eli Thorne’s work examines sports culture, physical transformation and visible displays of masculinity. Made through the perspective of a juvenile boy, these drawings aim to reclaim the lost boyhood of an adult transgender male. Physicality and intimacy are also explored in two works by collaborative duo Double Zero (Annie Vought and Hannah Ireland), who make performative videos based on their 20-year friendship, playing with the ways identity is shaped in relation to those closest to us.

In an additional project for the 20th Street Block Party and in the transformative spirit of Makeover, five pre-selected children will be asked to improve upon five artworks from the studios of Michael Arcega, Jonn Herschend, Jason Jägel, Alicia McCarthy, and Catherine Wagner – respected local artists who have selected work that they either never liked, used as a study for another piece, or have had hanging around too long.
Southern Exposure is pleased to announce Makeover, an exhibition with eight projects that explore the individual desire for improvement and faith in the emancipatory power of personal development. These projects include genuine quests for profound metamorphosis, playful experiments, desperate attempts to seem more impressive, and glimpses into the pitfalls of constantly striving for progress and improvement. Change is in the air – what does our desire for self-improvement say about us?

At Southern Exposure, visitors can be made over by artists, discover aspirational products and ideas, and learn methods for improved self-presentation. The collaborative team Mutant Salon (Marvin Astorga, Elisa Harkins, Young Joon Kwak, Alli Miller) creates an installation that is part beauty salon, part experimental performance space, and offers beautification services at the Opening Reception on September 11th and the 20th Street Block Party on September 12th.

As part of their line of luxury products to improve our lives, The Institute for New Feeling (Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt, Nina Sarnelle) showcases special contact lenses that modify the wearer’s physical appearance and transform vision with features such as Hue Shift and Gaussian Blur. The Feminist Economics Department (The FED) presents Give Me Cred!, an initiative to craft supplemental narrative credit reports to help potential landlords see you as more than a number. For Makeover, this alternative credit reporting process is presented in a comic book illustrated by Elizabeth Beier. Give Me Cred! will provide alternative credit reports on Fridays by appointment throughout the exhibition.

Takes on the culture and language of self-help are offered in Michael Friedman’s performative author’s reading and Scott Vermeire’s discussion of the transformative benefits of satanism and the occult.

Other works in the exhibition explore various cultures of transformation, and reflect on the potential impacts of personal change. Eli Thorne’s work examines sports culture, physical transformation and visible displays of masculinity. Made through the perspective of a juvenile boy, these drawings aim to reclaim the lost boyhood of an adult transgender male. Physicality and intimacy are also explored in two works by collaborative duo Double Zero (Annie Vought and Hannah Ireland), who make performative videos based on their 20-year friendship, playing with the ways identity is shaped in relation to those closest to us.

In an additional project for the 20th Street Block Party and in the transformative spirit of Makeover, five pre-selected children will be asked to improve upon five artworks from the studios of Michael Arcega, Jonn Herschend, Jason Jägel, Alicia McCarthy, and Catherine Wagner – respected local artists who have selected work that they either never liked, used as a study for another piece, or have had hanging around too long.
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