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Thanksgiving Dinner in 5 seconds
by Marisa Jahn & Steve
Shada, 2009
An apparatus for cooking a Thanksgiving meal using rocket-triggered lightning. |
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PleasureCraft
by Marisa Jahn & Steve
Shada, 2008
A kit for any klutz who wishes to woo a potential lover, ‘Pleasurecraft’ is
a vehicular kit that choreographs gesture and landscape to produce an outting
full of splendor and romance.
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WOW Pod
by Cati Vaucelle, Marisa Jahn & Steve
Shada, 2009
WOW Pod is an immersive architectural solution for
the advanced WOW (World of Warcraft) player that
provides and anticipates all life needs. |
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Wearable Musical Insturments
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2005
Two vests sewn with an accordion-like instrument between; individuals wear them
facing each other; as the two participants embrace and pull away, their movements
generate sound. Allegorizing human relationships, the wearable instruments resemble
prosthetic devices... |
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Commuter Cookout
by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada, 2008
An investigation of vehicular commuter patterns as a choreography between body and landscape. By adaptating existing methods of engine-block cooking to the commuting patterns of the San Francisco Bay Area... |
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Bailout
= Bullshit
protest
poster graphics by Marisa Jahn in collaboration with many
others, 2008
This poster graphic was designed as part of a campaign protesting the
government bailout of Wall Street that took place at 4 pm, Thursday Sept 25th in New York City. Click to see photos of the protest or to download hi-res downloadable poster-sized or flyer-sized graphics. |
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MetaFormances
by Marisa
Jahn & others, 2007
A correspondence-based social sculpture that mimes the protocol of business form
letters and request their recipient to perform absurd, erotic, and
illicit
behavior... |
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Swan
Song
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2007
A large percussive musical instrument that wraps 360 degrees around the trunk
of an apple tree - essentially rendering audible the sound of falling fruit... |
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Dismantle
by Marisa
Jahn, 2006
A project that investigates the relationship between intimacy and violation and
my own exploration of victimization through the invented personae of a female
aggressor. I began the project by making a reversible cape - pink wool (like
flesh) on one side and black satin on the inside... |
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SET
by Marisa
Jahn & Erik Carver, 2006-8
A game in which players “play” by intervening and reorganizing existing
groups
of
objects, thus questioning categories by constructing and redrawing them... |
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Throw-n-Sow
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2006
A flying disc toy similar to a Frisbee that uses the centripetal force generated
in the act of throwing to distribute seeds into the environment... |
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Is
Or Am
by Marisa
Jahn, 2008
A self-reflexive word game... for word nerds only... |
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Dispatches
from East Serbia
by Marisa
Jahn & Noa Treister, 2007
A series of travel posters that deploys humor
and
facts to raise questions about the Serbian diaspora... |
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Win-Win
by Marisa
Jahn, 2001
A correspondence-based project inspired by the permission slip provided by security
clerks
at
the
San
Diego
Museum
of Art. ... for word nerds only... |
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Lifejacket
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2001
As alifejacket for two, it's unclear whether the device saves or drowns... |
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A
Dash of This & A Dash of That
by Marisa
Jahn and Noa Treister, 2007
A cookbook featuring foods from the Serbian diasporta that aims to dismantle
the
essentialist
notion
of
an
immutable
'Serbian
cuisine' i |
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House of Plato, House of More, House of Marx
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2005
An installation in which 12 mice are put in a plexi box with 3 books propped
with their spines upwards, suggestive of an A-frame house. The books themselves--Plato's
The Republic (~360 B.C.E.), Sir Thomas More's Utopia (1515), and Karl Marx's
Communist Manifesto (1848)--are all foundational texts of Western political philosophy... |
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Chinita
by Marisa Jahn, 2004
A tongue in cheek response to my split ethnic identity (half Ecuadorian, half Chinese) and pokes fun at the attempt to capture identty through ethnicity alone |
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Crumb
Meridian 2
by Marisa
Jahn and Steve Shada, 2005
we used a buggy traditionally used to leave lines of chalk on soccer fields
to draw a line of bread crumbs through two locations that were not my home... |
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Crumb
Meridian 1
by Marisa
Jahn, 2003
With the aid of a buggy traditionally used to draw lines of chalk on soccer fields,
I drew a line of bread crumbs throughout the city starting from my home. I then
followed the crumbs back home, witnessing the human-scale meridian's erasure
by hungry pigeons, passersby, cars, ants, wind, and other unknown elements. |
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Original
Reproductions
by Marisa
Jahn & Steve Shada, 2004
For the annual Monster Drawing Rally auction, Southern Exposure asks a motley
of artists to sit down to draw images in one hour time slots throughout a single
evening. For the event, Steve Shada and myself took brought pieces of vellum,
placed them over others' drawings. We traced not only the drawing but its sticker
with name and numerical coding, the flaws on the wall around the drawing, and
all the signifiers of its auction-ness... |
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Trying
to Walk a Straight A Line as Possible
by Marisa
Jahn, 2001
One day in 2001, I tried to walk a line as straight as possible from my house
on Valencia Street in San Francisco to Mission Bay, a region of the city which
I consider a kind of home. With an imagined aerial map of the city in mind... |
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