Casting Jesus (2011) –  13 actors vie for the role of Jesus Christ, with the finalist chosen by a panel of judges

Non-Art World Research: Research on cancer treatment

Memory & Pain – A response to the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, in Iraq in 2007. The city represents a “body” while the street represents a “scar.”

Rolled paper bead necklace and earrings made of pages from How I Became Hettie Jones, a memoir of the Beat generation. I also created a triangular origami box using stamped book pages to hold the jewelry.

The Encyclopedia

The Bibliomancer’s Dream

To clarify, this was done by Kaitlin and not me – I just saw it!

“Burning the Books is a project by artist Alinah Azadeh in collaboration with debtors and creditors everywhere. It offers a moment to reflect on and engage in a dialogue about debt other than the one you may think is on offer. It questions the relationship between measurable, financial debt and other forms such as emotional, psychic, ecological and social debt.

Azadeh acts as debt/story collector and servant to The Book of Debts – one volume per location – which will be intermittently filled, recited and burned in public acts of ‘absolution’ across the UK and beyond.”

Source: http://www.burningthebooks.co.uk/

My performance art aimed to challenge the notion of “library as ritual.” I destroyed several books from an English class I dropped this semester, in order to add this class.