MARKED//YOUNG performance art March 23rd 2024
Relics and hieroglyphics of a paradise
bygone.
A metaphorical and metaphysical dreamland on teen-dom turned womxn-hood overnight- it is ephemeral, feral, aggressively real. A mausoleum of wolfish desire for attention and unashamed existence.
Markings-dark and sexy
Youth be damned
I'm here and divesting from the sands of time.
Shutter & Strum
https://youtu.be/--KHIqzwvI4
“Your Cake/Rituals” presented by True North Art Gallery
31 E. Bijou Street
2023
"Your Cake/ Rituals" an intimate performance art piece presented by the collective of True North.
This exploratory storytelling performance speaks on femininity, desirability, the rituals set by machismo parameters and the celebration of change.
Cake and razors, champagne and guitar riffs.
Feminist n' freaky
Viva Voce
Performed at Kreuser Gallery 2021
Viva Voce is a translation of cultural recipes turned hieroglyphic turned sensual marking turned ritual turned new language.
As part of a lipstick-mark-making collection.
Documentation by Stellar Propeller Photography.
Capturing Essence
Kreuser Gallery
2020
Capturing Essence is a collection of paper cast items. Each piece reveals a personal story about growing up in the grasp of Latinidad. By casting these items, the very root of its life is saved while the physicality of the items falls away. This is practice in decolonizing, in separating the person from the icon and letting the flesh of the story hold strong.
These pieces were sold as part of a partnership with The Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, Downtown Partnership and Kreuser Gallery to raise funds for BLM orgs in Colorado Springs.
A poetic ritual for the mujeres lost to inadequate reproductive health care. Black & Latina Women carry the largest number of deaths associated with birth through lack of financial assistance, abortion stigma/ limited access and religious influence.
A ritual for a heavy weight.
Presented in 2018 at the Manitou Art Center
"Inspired//Womxn's Work" is a performance about the cyclical nuances of sacrifice and labor as inspiration. An ode to mother's in other lands.
6501 W. Colfax Ave, Lakewood.
Adrift
GOCA 121
July 2019
This exhibition explores the fluidity of cultural isolation through a temporary lens.
Through performance, installation and images, these works speak on sympathetic viewpoints of
disconnect. The artists narrative is activated by extracting content from space, allowing
viewers to deeply examine stories such as diaspora separation, cultural identity and
personalized internal islands.
By placing the self in a non-binary form of separation, away from place, away from culture; we
drift from where we are, in search of better direction and meaning.
This activation performance speaks directly on returning PR back to PR. As an island that exists in so much political turmoil right now, and a place important to my story and heart, Puerto Rico is seeing a repetition in early colonial violence. This piece is a reparation. It is an act of returning sacredness to what was taken, is being taken and will be taken in the future.
Documentation by Dennis Nejtek
An altar for Latina bodies maneuvering our current political climate.
Found object
for the Planned Parenthood Exhibition 2018
For Latinas, there is strata within; it breaks us into who we are supposed to be, allowed to be, or expected to become. My entire life, I've understood myself as image unfulfilled. I could be the overly prude and Catholic archetype, the hyper-sexualized exotic, the violent other, the house wife, the baby-maker, the bruja, the maid - it goes on and on. We all work endlessly to deny these stereotypes, but what happens when we embrace them: when we decide who we want to be? I find that I am constantly re-configuring the politics of my own body and the complexities of my identity. Through found-object assemblage, I can transform these personas into ephemera of significance. I dissect and reassemble them into something holy and honorable. My strata is personal, political and poetic
Yo Soy I Am
Presented at the Heller Center
2016
100 Potions for Puerto Rico is a fundraising project to raise money and awareness for Puerto Rico post Hurricane Maria.
90 bottles are individually crafted by the artist with 10 made by strangers in Puerto Rico to speak upon their own experiences.
Kreuser Gallery
2018
Assembled West, presented at Rooted Studio in Colorado Springs, was the brainchild of 5 mixed-media artist’s Gay Haulting, Cymon Padilla, Meredith Anne, Riley Bratzler and Jasmine Dillavou.
Each of the artists contributed a component that spoke directly about the missing dialogues of the Wild West through the lense of the contemporary Front Range.
”Lost a Lot” presented at the Gallery Below for the Planned Parenthood Fundraiser Art Show 2018 entitled “WE TOO”.
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Did you know WOC statistically receive less-attentive reproductive health care and are more likely to die during childbirth?
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This piece is an altar to the spaces left over.
Human hair, found object, stones, dried roses, metal baby mattress, feathers, paper, charcoal, greens, animal fur, salt.
“Natural Law”
Performed for Gratitude at Kreuser Gallery February 2020.
Natural law explores grief through the lense of femininty. Using red soil as a feminine icon, the body is moved through patterns of soil application- burying and unburying over and over until one feels completely consumed by Earth and all her powers.
Performance
Presented at The Kreuser Gallery
2019
“It is said that Sif had magnificent long hair, which the trickster Loki cut off one day when he found himself in an especially mischievous mood. Thor, enraged, threatened to kill Loki, but Loki convinced the thunder god to spare his life on the condition that he find an even fairer head of hair for Sif.”
Everything about her power was linked to her hair.
Femininity and control.
A spiritual bath to connect us to both.
Documentation by JD Sell and Chantal Patino
Last Known Alive
Understudy Denver
March 2020
The duality of my culture lies in 500 years of power struggle. Autochthonous peoples overtaken by heterochthonous; those who wish to economically exploit the lands and resources of North and Central America. In modern times, this process still continues and is rife within our political, financial, and industrial systems: the ruling elite, unelected fiscal boards, money laundering, anti-black sentiments, redlining, and unaddressed climate disasters are just a few of the continuing devices of oppression. With this exhibition I dutifully unpack how these huge and unending mechanisms have not succeeded in erasing my indigenous history, but have instead redefined how marginalized communities continue to honor and preserve their heritage.
This exhibition is dedicated to the diaspora goddesses; unsung heroes of an island dusted in gold. Beautiful brown bodies. Family stretched far across waters. To the activists with guillotines, to the Boricuas on the frontlines, to earthquake survivors. I send you the strength of our foremothers.
Brown Girl, American Dream is an exploration of the American Ideals through young-Latina-eyes. By incorporating 60’s inspired imagery of the “White Picket Fence Home” with the complexities of the Latina experience, a small enclosed yard appears in the gallery. Balancing stereotypes of religion, sexuality and motherhood, these images collage together to tell a deeper-darker story than what the fence can protect us from.
“A Seat at the Table”
Poetry and Performance in collaboration with Ashley Cornelius.
Originally performed for Gratitude at Kreuser Gallery.
Performed in 2021 at Concrete Coyote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRQJMXeTK_s
STOREROOM
Denver
1700 Vine Street
Portal Brujeria" is an altar to the Divine Feminine, the Holy Mamacita- a bewitching mother figure with long nails, Aqua Net in the hair and tarot cards in her back pocket - the familiar and the fantasy.
STOREROOM becomes the botanica shop window meets your auntie's vanity lined with Florida water and hair relaxer. Here, there are no men in power, just brown babes with angry Abuelas and enough feminine energy to bewitch you out of your seat.
Enter the salon, through what appears to be a mystical botanica lies the ultimate divinity, the Womxn who walks into her own prowess, a place where you are safe among your sisters and you step into your own saintliness when we need to find it the most.
"Remembering Home"
Mixed Media
"Remembering Home" is an exploration of memory. How do we remember a home, a house, and how does that definition of the two change over time? I remember the crooked ceiling, the overgrown forest lawn and all the quiet moments that come along with it. Cooking rice with mom in the kitchen, listening to music too loud, the sound of rain on windy cold nights. There's poetry embedded in the walls of the homes we build over time.
Created for the Aurora Children’s Hospital 2021
Improvisional movement and jazz.
Reflections on loss and grief as interpretations on Elijah Mcclain’s passing.
A collaborative piece by Jasmine Dillavou and Bob Marsh at Bloback Gallery Pueblo.
“Boca Sucia” is storytelling turned - oral history turned - transfer of knowledge turned - hieroglyphic.
Using red and pink lipsticks, the artist uses her mouth to transform recipes, family stories and chisme’ into physical marks. Lipstick on lips on paper.
The act of orally transmuting histories is a ritual practiced in Latin cultures since forever. It is a tradition and rite of passage. These pieces act as markers of the feminine, powerful, and profound past.
Womxn in a kitchen smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. Big sisters telling you stories while applying makeup in the mirror. Secrets whispered behind overworked and wrinkled palms. Grandma’s Recipe Books with waterlogged pages. We are just filling in the blanks.
Presented by G44 January 7th-28th. 2022
“Tethered Mountains” with Su Kaiden Cho at Kreuser Gallery 2022.
This layered movement, poetry and installation piece speaks on our ties through our ancestors migrations.
Through the tethering of two bodies, we investigate the emotional push/pull- the togetherness and solitude of immigration. We see how, though deeply different and complex, our relationships to “movement as survival” connects us in impassable ways,
Our stories keep us linked, like a long winding mountain range. Our historical roots and lineage are snowdrifts in deep valleys.
This piece was originally created for the Fine Arts Center 3X3 Project.
Audio design by Jimmy Gable.
Documentation by Robert Gray.
Colorful and muted layers draw inspiration from a myriad of sources: ancestral survival tools, colonial relics, poetry and wedding veils.
Artificial Veil comes from a sustained material investigation of how Dillavou has dissected her identity overtime. Artificial Veil is a continuous reflection in corporeality and self portrait. Memory, history- all seen through a layered shield.
Yellow light, often associated with joy and divination ( the mythological chariot which carried the sun) plays a key role in this exhibition. In ancient Greece, brides were adorned in yellow veils to refract as much light as possible to then be delivered as an untouched maiden, even by the sun. Upon the opening of this exhibition, Dillavou will be exactly one month from her wedding. The reflections, fears, and weight of a wedding is intimately presented within these works as a way to dissect the experience- the very real, feminine, divine, detailed, dirty, patriarchal, passionate, life changing, complicated thing that marriage may be.
The “Artificial Veil” speaks on all these things. The manufactured, the authentic and alive. Those are the basis of the very survival tools that comprise so much of what Dillavou strives to understand about herself.
May 6th 2022 at Manitou Art Center
July 1st 2022 at Gas.Station Colorado Springs
"Shears Alone//Shears Gratitude" 2023 Documented by Stellar Propeller Studios
Performed for Gratitude 2023 at Kreuser Gallery
Broads, Blood Backlash was presented in partnership with artist Camille Murdock as a protest performance to shut down FOSTA-SESTA.
White Gargage
2018
Sanctuary//Self is a performance series created in 2024.
The performances are comprised of improvised stream-of-consciousness poetry and automatic drawings. They are accompanied written in lipstick and accompanied by various altar items,
Sanctuary//Self I was created and performed for the Evans School Performance Art Week (P.A.W) in Denver.
Sanctuary//Self II was created and performed for Cottonwood Center for the Arts during the launch of Gray Matter Resiliency's Non-profit Launch.
Blo Back Gallery Pueblo May 25th 2024
"All Comers in Red" uses feminine idioms paired with red symbols to tell the story of a body of display.
Blo Back Gallery
131
Spring St.
Pageant Answers
Performance art supported by the Pikes Peak Arts Council ArtPOP Grant 2019.
Miss America acts as a vessel to encourage audience members to listen and believe the stories being told.
A stack of Puerto Rican Nationalism articles are read into a microphone and then dropped to the ground. Miss America stands on a pink Soapbox covered in statements about Boricua Identity and the complexities of calling oneself “American.”
Duration 1 hour
Performed outside of Coralun Vintage 330 N. Nevada
Oct 4th
