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It's Pink And Nice But We Are Done With It, Taylor Elizabeth Yocom
It's Pink And Nice But We Are Done With It, Taylor Elizabeth Yocom
Graduate School of Art Theses
My work in video, installation, performance, sound, and photography is influenced and inspired by my experience of being a woman. In my work, I draw pink flowers and create pink backdrops. I smash things, eat, drink, drop things, smile, nod, and look at you. Through these works, I explore the gender performativity of female niceness, synthesizing these two separate theories as a social condition and expectation for women. I argue that female niceness consists of bodily and linguistic patterns that women must perform in order to be perceived as feminine.
In my video and installation work, I use a “sickeningly” …