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The Edge is part of an ongoing series entitled “Invasive Species” that explores the idea of home, transience, and life on our waterfronts for humans and other creatures who deal with the repercussions of human waste. The video features a fictional water creature that references mermaids, water spirits, and actual animals that inhabit the coastal waterfront.
Project Title: The Edge
Year: 2024
Video, 1 min 24 sec
Materials: foam, wire, glass, paint,
goggles, fishing net, original soundtrack and
text
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This is a silent film made of a performance on the Staten Island waterfront featuring a fictional water creature.
Project Title: The Waterfowl
Year: 2025
16mm silent film, 5 min 15 sec and live performance
Costume materials: wetsuit, found turkey and gull
feathers, paint, fabric, glass, string, rope, buoys,
mirrored acrylic sheet, various duck and goose calls, whistles
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Project Title: The Wetting Dress
Year: 2018
Photo from video
Costume materials: bath scrunchies, satin, goggles
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The Wetting Dress is a short video in which I wear a costume made of hundreds of bath scrunchies in a pool. It was part of a larger project entitled "Flotation Devices" in which I made a series of sculptural and wearable life buoys.
Project Title: I Am an Exponent of Myself
Year: 2011
Performance exerpt
Materials: Steel, fabric, rope, pulleys, plexiglass, lightbulbs,
chain hoist, original soundtrack
I Am an Exponent of Myself featured a tentacled costume that I wore in a variety of locations for a series of performances. This iteration was done in an off-Broadway theater and I hoisted myself up into the air inside of a constructed set with an industrial chain hoist and attached myself to the hanging sculptural elements until I was completely bound.
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Project Title: I Am an Exponent of Myself
Year: 2003
Photo from performance
Materials: Steel, fabric, lightbulbs, electrical cable, switches, sequined fabric
"Ripe" was a performance in which I created a steel harness that held clusters of lightbulbs and a network of electrical cable that was plugged in. Each cluster of lightbulbs contained one red light that I could switch on and off on a belt that had switches. This was a wild dance of clanking lightbulbs and flashing light.
Copyright 2019 DB Lampman
Copyright 2019 DB Lampman