BIO

Chelsea Coon

Chelsea Coon is recognized as both an artist and a writer. She graduated from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts with a  BFA degree and then received her MFA from the Tufts  University. She has also received a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Theatre, Performance and Contemporary Live Arts (2015) at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts‘ ​Scuola​ ​Teatro​ ​Dimitri​ ​​​in​​ ​Switzerland.

Coon is the art director of the bicoastal performance art festival FUCK ALL in the Los Angeles and New York City. She is the author of No One Thing is the Root of All Anything and many other published texts.

The artist has exhibited extensively across the expanses of North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania with performances at the Tempting Failure (London, UK), CREATurE Live Art Festival (Kaunas, Lithuania), Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (Kolkata, India) and PALS: Performance Art Links (Stockholm, Sweden). She has also attended a multitude of residencies such as the Kattilakoski Artist Residence in Finland and Studio Kura in Japan.

CONCEPT

Work Title: Factors

Duration: 3 hours.

I walked around the perimeter of a dark, decrepit room, and scraped the walls with a small clear glass bowl that I held in my hand. The sound permeated the space and the force of the bowl pressed against the wall tore the paint and plaster off which resulted in a trail of white dust that accumulated around the space, disrupted by impressions of my feet as I moved through them. Every thirty minutes, I would take a glass bowl to the center of the room and smash it under a brick with three impacts at full force. I would then take another glass bowl and begin the cycle again.