Juliet Oh

Juliet is an aspiring artist double majoring in Performance Studies and Collaborative Arts where she explores both practice and theory. As an artist, her interests range from acting and visual art to dance. She incorporates her experiences in making creative work when engaged in the scholarly study of art and performance as a scholar. Through Performance Studies, she has gained a fascination with the body as an archive and the performance of everyday life.

Title of Capstone Project

Dear Ophelia

Description of Capstone Project

My capstone explores the blurred space between our bodies as archives and the clothes we wear everyday. In sharing and analyzing my personal experience with bodily trauma, this project provides a context for how I make choices with garments in my life. Inspired by Julieta Singh’s No Archive Will Restore You, this study includes a short video that questions the separation between fabric and skin. I ask how the function of clothing differs according to one’s own bodily archive as well as social perceptions of the body. My video piece and the accompanying artist statement suggest that clothing is a part of our skin to comment on our struggles to accept and to be accepted.