I create performance/installations that challenge viewers' empathetic connection to the artistís body. My conceptual foundation is in contemporary theory and philosophy, although I am greatly influenced by literature and religion. My performances and installations are directed by the architectural logic of a site, as I attempt to create formal predicaments from which I work my way out. I am more overpoweringly propelled, however, by a visceral psychological need to escape the persona I embody in the moments of performance.

 

Jessica Buege received her M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University in Los Angeles. Her solo exhibitions include performance/installations at Fusebox in Washington, DC; Trace in Wales; and Miller Durazo in Los Angeles. She has participated in group exhibitions at Exit Art and Spencer Brownstone in New York, LACE and Full Nelson in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, Arizona, and Radar in Dundee, Scotland.