Hyla Willis
littlescience.com
November 2013
Healthy Artists
Design for the Healthy Artists Movie Poster Exhibition. I was inspired to combine references to Andy Warhol's "Vanitas" painting, Día de Muertos colors, and Lance Wyman's visual program for the Mexico City 68 Olympic Games.
Propositions and Undoings
subRosa combined notes, drawings, materials, and objects that reflect some of our own and others' meanderings and serious study in scientific, social and artistic pursuits. Pittsburgh Biennial, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, 2011. (photo by Tom Little…
Propositions and Undoings
Gallery visitors are invited to sit at the different tables, alone or with another person, to think and talk about the themes, histories, and ideas embedded in each setting—and to share their responses in the space. subRosa: Pittsburgh Biennial, Re…
Propositions and Undoings
This project by subRosa initiates a collective inquiry about how feminist knowledge sharing might inform "bench-side" approaches to scientific method and science pedagogy. Pittsburgh Biennial, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, 2011. (photo by Tom Little)
Propositions and Undoings
This project by subRosa initiates a collective inquiry about how feminist knowledge sharing might inform "bench-side" approaches to scientific method and science pedagogy. Pittsburgh Biennial, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, 2011. (photo by Tom Little)
Out-Rage-Us-Joy
subRosa's project for “The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics.” Participants were invited to write shout-outs to inspirational figures, and decorate paper “Cones of Respect” that were then pinned on a ‘pier post,’ or communication…
Out-Rage-Us-Joy
subRosa's project for "The Way That We Rhyme." A poetic, performative installation, commissioned for an intergenerational feminist exhibition. Performers rode on two ‘rafts’ made from discarded tires, painted canvas, and reclaimed billboard mate…
Propositions and Undoings
This project by subRosa initiates a collective inquiry about how feminist knowledge sharing might inform "bench-side" approaches to scientific method and science pedagogy. Pittsburgh Biennial, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, 2011. (photo by Tom Little)
Grenadine
Grenadine, 2012. (photo by Tom Little)
Can You See Us Now?
The audience could investigate the connections between the large aerial maps, objects beneath the floor, and an interpretive text distributed in the space. Another wall displayed five posters by Mexican artist/designer teams expressing concern and ou…
Can You See Us Now?
Created specifically for "The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere," subRosa mapped the intersections of women’s material and affective labor in North Adams, MA, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico after discovering that the museum itself was a former…
Rhythmic Smelling Machines
Rhythmic Smelling Machines, 1999.
Rhythmic Smelling Machines
Rhythmic Smelling Machines, 1999.
Transfer Points
"Transfer Points," 2009 collaboration with Jen Morris.
U-Gen-A-Chix
After taste-testing the GMO biscuits, participants give live video interviews to subRosa, offering their opinions about the widespread use of GMOs, and related biological and social eugenic tendencies. (Note: This performance has been re-staged under…
U-Gen-A-Chix
Originally staged inside the student center at a large US public university, subRosa's "U-Gen-A-Chix" engaged students directly in an experience designed to stimulate critical conversations about eugenics as it relates to contemporary genetic enginee…
Rhythmic Smelling Machines
Rhythmic Smelling Machines, 1999.
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