Brooke Holloway
Bio: Brooke Holloway is an interdisciplinary artist whose current body of work utilizes performance, video, and the Internet. Through her alter ego, Brooke Blake, she explores themes of sexuality and desire, audience, and distribution.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement:
Interview with Brooke Blake
by Brooke Holloway
An excerpt from an interview between the artist and her performer from March
2016. The full transcript is available at www.brookeholloway.com.
Brooke Holloway: [laughs] Well, on that note, what are your thoughts
on the current political climate?
Brooke Blake: It’s really interesting, you know? To see it all laid out as the dick-measuring contest it has always been. But that’s what people want,
right? A good show?
BH: But what about the women involved?
BB: [sighs] They’re just as guilty.
BH: How so?
BB: They achieve success in a system constructed by the men in power. They lean into it. Sure, they’ve been granted access to the country club, but they’re expected to follow a set of rules that were created without them in mind.
BH: But don’t you think anything has changed through including groups that have been historically excluded?
BB: The whole world is still a boy’s club, it’s just expanded its membership.
Everybody is implicated.
BH: So…can you propose an alternative?
BB: [laughs] I’d prefer an opposition.
L to R: Untitled (Clip No. 7), (1 min 6 sec, Video, color, sound Frame enlargements, 2016); Spit Freak, (41 min 36 sec, Video, color, sound Frame enlargements, 2015)