Pure Virtue (Video, 15:30)

Pure Virtue (Video, 15:30)

Conflating the historical image of Queen Elizabeth I with those of popular culture, Mars as an aging Queen Elizabeth I talked about such things as virginity, love and deception, in the process illustrating how the relationship of women to power has not significantly...
Pure Virtue (performance)

Pure Virtue (performance)

In this first of the “Women and Power” trilogy of performances, Tanya Mars used Queen Elizabeth I as an historic icon and archetype. Rather than presenting Queen Elizabeth accurately, Mars appropriated her image to explore the paradoxical conflict between the Queen’s...
Picnic in the Drift

Picnic in the Drift

This multi-disciplinary performance/installation focused on the influence of the nuclear industry upon the history and future of our lives. A hybrid explosion of opera, dance, music, video, architecture and collaborative theatre, Picnic in the Drift evolved as a...
Fat

Fat

A 13 Jackies production Written and performed in collaboration wtih Bob White and Odette Oliver Fat took a weight-watcher’s look at North America’s obsession with food and beauty, and the inherent contradiction between advertising beautiful, caloric food...
Codpieces: Phallic Paraphernalia

Codpieces: Phallic Paraphernalia

Codpieces consisted of a series of body sculptures for men. Each piece was made from found objects, such as an oilcan, plastic packaging materials, a pair of stuffed leather gloves, or even a small chessboard with magnetic chess pieces. At the openiorder viagra...