. 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...
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...
. Lifejacket
by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada, 2001
As a lifejacket for two, it's unclear whether the device saves or drowns...
A Dash of This & A Dash of That
by Marisa Jahn and Noa Treister, 2007
A cookbook featuring foods from the Serbian diaspora that aims to dismantle the essentialist notion of an immutable 'Serbian cuisine.'
. A Dash of This & A Dash of That
by Marisa Jahn and Noa Treister, 2007
A cookbook featuring foods from the Serbian diaspora that aims to dismantle the essentialist notion of an immutable 'Serbian cuisine.'
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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