My Vote Performs

For the November 4 2008 elections, a highly ambitious, non-partisan, performance art organization called "My Vote Performs" (co-produced by Pegi Taylor, and John Loscuito), put together performance art pieces at 11 different polling places in the city of Milwaukee. The artists involved represent three decades of Milwaukee's finest performance artists. I was lucky enough to have been honored by Pegi and John, with the task of creating a doucmentary of the project in its entirety to be shown on the My Vote Performs website, as well as an open forum held at MIAD. The documentary is about 45 minutes, and catalogs the individual projects of all 11 artists, as well as our conversations concerning them. Thank you so much to John and Pegi for giving me this wonderful opportunity, as well as each artist for sharing their time and wisdom with me. I cannot express how wonderful and inspiring of a task this documentary has been for me, and how exciting it has been to work so closely with a project that I truely feel represents the importance of celebrating the democratic process, and our privelaged right to vote. The documentary can be found on the My Vote Performs official website, and is in the process of being sent out to various film festivals. I will keep updates about future screenings. http://www.myvoteperforms.com/index.html I encourage everyone to look into the amazing artists that were involved in the project, Renato Umali, Ted Brusabardis, Jill Sebastian, Steve Wetzel, John Schneider, Dasha Kelly, Raoul Deal, Miachael Pettit, Thewhiteboxpainters (Brent Budsberg, Shana McCaw, Mark Escribano, Harvey Opgenorth), and Debra Loewen.