Jeanine Oleson

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Photo Requests from Solitary
Photo Requests from Solitary

Photo Requests from Solitary was initiated by Tamms Year Ten (TY10), a grassroots coalition of artists, advocates, family members and men formerly incarcerated in Tamms Correctional Center in southern Illinois.

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The Bigheaded Men Approach Womanhouse
The Bigheaded Men Approach Womanhouse

Collaboration with Laurie Jo Reynolds
A performance on a College Art Association panel about the seminal Womanhouse exhibition. Our characters, two innocuous-looking human puppets, remixed a dialogue based on the texts of Hilton Kramer and Clement Greenberg, bringing the two most unlikely figures to the panel's dialogue.

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Coming Home
Coming Home

Series of photographs in collaboration with Chicago County Fair/S.O. Work Group.

These photographs are meant to show quasi-documents of a sex offender returning home, in a time when the sex offender registry and other civil rights offenses are at odds with the constitutional rights of a citizen.

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Palm Springs Swimming Pool
Palm Springs Swimming Pool

Performance, work-in-progress, experimental opera collaboration with Juliana Snapper.

A collaborative, situational performance in a Palm Springs pool where the audience becomes the chorus while learning to perceive the differences in sound both above and below water.

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Off The Grid
Off The Grid

In collaboration with Ellen Lesperance

A collaborative series of large-format photographs which simultaneously mock and embrace conceptions of the natural world, new age culture, earthworks, feminist performance, and cinematic/photographic conventions around the primordial

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We Like New York and New York Likes Us
We Like New York and New York Likes Us

Collaborative endurance performance with Ellen Lesperance in Art in General's Project Space.

In this wry look back at Joseph Beuys' seminal 1974 piece, I Like America and America Likes Me, we re-envisioned what a true contact animal was for the U.S.- a rat. The piece was at street-level and we were confined to the space for 9 hours.

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Other Collaborations
Other Collaborations
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