Hyla Willis
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U-Gen-A-Chix
subRosa performance and installation at Ljubljana's City of Women festival. Rhythmic Smelling Machines →
U-Gen-A-Chix
Originally staged inside the student center at a large US public university, subRosa's "U-Gen-A-Chix" engaged students directly in an experience designed to stimulate critical conversations about eugenics as it relates to contemporary genetic engineering of humans, animals, and plants. Tandem performance booths were set up in a public space: one dispensing information on human egg donation and Assisted Reproductive Technologies, and the other offering taste tests of chicken-flavored GMO biscuits. Raw Symbiosis: Animals_Nature_Culture, 14th International Festival of Contemporary Arts—City of Women, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 13, 2008
U-Gen-A-Chix
After taste-testing the GMO biscuits, participants give live video interviews to subRosa, offering their opinions about the widespread use of GMOs, and related biological and social eugenic tendencies. (Note: This performance has been re-staged under several different titles, with variations in the set-up, emphasis, and audience participation in each case). Raw Symbiosis: Animals_Nature_Culture, 14th International Festival of Contemporary Arts—City of Women, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 13, 2008
America's Least Livable City
Installation created for Pittsburgh Center for the Arts’ "2014 Artist of the Year" exhibition.
Grenadine
Video installation at the Mattress Factory for 2012's "Sites of Passage" show.
Can You See Us Now?
subRosa's contribution to "The Interventionists" exhibition at MASS MoCA, 2004.
Out-Rage-Us-Joy
subRosa's installation for "The Way That We Rhyme" at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
Propositions and Undoings
subRosa's contribution to the 2011 Pittsburgh Biennial
U-Gen-A-Chix
subRosa performance and installation at Ljubljana's City of Women festival.
Rhythmic Smelling Machines
MFA thesis project, 1999.
Transfer Points
A collaboration with Jen Morris exploring the intersections of patient/traveler processing at airports and hospitals.
Healthy Artists
Design for the Healthy Artists Movie Poster Exhibition. Inspired by Andy Warhol's "Vanitas" painting, popular Día de Muertos colors, and Lance Wyman's visual program for the Mexico City '68 Olympics.
Where have all the — And what will she do with?
Installation: Lyrics from "All Tomorrow's Parties" are written on paper tongues. Lyrics to "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" are painted on broken ROTC practice rifles, 2014.
Que Serra
Acrylic on birch with [supplied] horseshoe and miniature figures: a wry reference to the Tilted Arc at Javits Plaza. Created for a themed silent auction to benefit the Mattress Factory, 2014.
Exquisite Corpse
Exquisite Corpse drawing by Ryan Griffis, Hyla Willis, and Christiane Leach for the "Surrealism and War" exhibition at the National Veterans Art Museum, 2014.
Steadfast
Installation: wood, nails, paint, 2014. After the village is razed, the succulent hedge is steadfast.