NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio:
Xander Marro has been living the good life in the feminist sub-underground for too many years to count on her long bony fingers. She draws pictures (usually narrative), makes movies (usually not narrative), produces plays with elaborate sets and costumes (usually narrative, but confusing), and then makes stuff like posters, quilts and dioramas (probably narrative?). Her work is often about spiritual relationships to the material stuff of this world. Co-founder of the Dirt Palace in 2000 (feminist cupcake encrusted netherworld located along the dioxin filled banks of the Woonasquatucket river, which is to say in Providence, RI USA). Her studio (and heart) is there still.
Original NetWorks Catalogue Bio:
Xander Marro is a fake scientist/olde style tinker residing at the dirt palace; a feminist cupcake encrusted netherworld located along the dioxin filled banks of the Woonasquatucket River (which is to say in Providence, RI, USA). From this post she makes movies, puppet shows, prints and phone calls. Her adventures underground have included curating the “Movies with Live Soundtracks” film series and performing in various theatrick/musical formats as one of the variety of her alter ego’s (Madame Von Temper Tantrum, Lady Long Arms, Lil Blood-n-Guts, Madame Von Malt Liquor, etc.) Of recent days she has gotten herself deep into the wild world of community organizing around neighborhood social justice and human rights issues. In her spare time she is the managing director of AS220 where she crafts endless spreadsheets and reports documenting the possibility of an organized egalitarian approach to art making as a revolutionary tool in achieving enlightened human consciousness. Fuck war! True Love is the end of oppression!
Fabric crazy quilt 62 x 62 in.
Credits:
Video: Richard Goulis
Music:
Various Artists from the films of Xander Marro
Keith Munslow
Film Clips from:
0106
Fast Riding
Now This Be a Tale of as Fine a Wench as Ever Wet Bed
Fine Dishes for Fine Bitches
The Journey
Executive Producer: Joseph A. Chazan M.D.
Additional Resources:
Artist’s website: xandermarro.com
Highlighting the work of selected artists who have played vital roles in shaping the contemporary visual arts community in Rhode Island. This collection of brief video portraits provides a window into the lives, practices, and cultural contributions of professional artists.
