Ah, miscellaneous. My favourite category. This is stuff that's not performance, installation, video or design, and sometimes the malformed little children of other projects. Here's some examples.
Past projects:
Things My Boyfriend Says.
I documented a five-year relationship by recording the hilarious and offensive things my boyfriend said. I started sharing them with my friends who said I should start a website. I did, and it got amazingly popular - about three million hits in the first eighteen months.
What started as kind of a joke ended up being an interesting social experiment. We both got tons of fan mail and exactly ONE piece of hate mail (directed at me); I'm used to a vastly different ratio. It ended up being a window into an audience's romantic ideals and the perception of a relationship by the outside world.
On our fifth anniversary The Boyfriend and I called it quits. The site's still there though, because let's face it, that shit is funny.
Check it out: thingsmyboyfriendsays.com
Oh, and pretty much no one knows that I'm The Girlfriend, so don't blow my cover or I'll start getting hate mail again.
The Sean Ward Show.
Sean Ward is a Toronto comic book and music personality. In 2006 he started The Sean Ward Show, which was a monthly event featuring bands and taped segments of Sean and his wacky adventures.
I was fortunate enough to be invited on as a videographer and eventually started conceptualizing scripts as well with a creative team. Sean's show went from underground cult status to being in actual production for television. Keep an eye out for it.
morphine:as:electrolyte
A zine I made for five issues. I've made a lot of zines over the years but this one was by far my favourite. I'll put scans up here at some point.
Ersatz.
In second year of university I got really disillusioned with galleries and the stuff that ended up in them, especially in regards to performance and time-based stuff. Performance art doesn't really belong anywhere, isn't sellable and therefore it's hard to get any gallery support at all, and if you do it often feels like being relegated to dancing monkey at an opening. I longed for somewhere where time-based artists could experiment and hang out, so I started one.
I was living in a warehouse in downtown Toronto and started throwing a monthly event called Ersatz. It went on for a year and featured over fifty performers, artists, comedians, dancers, musicians, filmmakers and poets.
Ongoing projects:
Screen writing.
I have been working on two scripts for about a year at the feverish pace of one or two scenes a month, one entitled Hiding Benito and one entitled God I Hate That Bitch. Hiding Benito is about a dead Italian. God I Hate That Bitch is about female relational agression.
Mixes.
Since I was eleven I've been in love with mix tapes. Unfortunately that era is gone because it's all iPods and mp3s these days. After finally accepting that I'll never have sides A and B back, I started making mixes again.
The story, the liners and the tracklists have moved to the Mix page; visit them there!