[ me and my new friend ]
This morning Katat0nik tipped me off about the new Trevor Brown inspired art installation at Hotel dare, so I went there to take a peek and snapped a ton of pictures! It IS AWESOME. The build was created by Daniel Luchador and it is a creepy hospital building that includes a waiting room and operating room. Katat0nik Pidgeon, Marie Lauridsen ,Allegory Malaprop and Helianthus Mesmer created clothes, skin, hair and poses so that visitors can become a Nurse Doll participating in this 3-D art experience.This Hotel Dare officially opens at 5pm SLT today.
[ patients can check-in here and also get the Nurse Doll avatar goodies ]
[ this is the waiting room, I often feel this way when I am waiting for anything ]
[ Trevor Brown's artwork ]
[ the creepy hallway ]
[ the operating room ]
[ this is what happens to patients that aren't so lucky ]
[ here I am helping out with the operation ]
[ Oooh, that doesn't look good! ]
[ slacking on the job ]
[ sent to the corner ]
[ taking a break ]
I hope I haven't bored you guys to tears with my pictures! Most of the poses seen in this entry were created by Helianthus Mesmer and they're really great. They add to the experience and you don't even have to fuss about finding the right poses for photos! Just come visit The Hotel Dare!
note: I'm wearing the hair & Nurse Doll outfit, skin & shape not worn here but it is also available at the Hotel Dare.
Here is the info about this art installation at Hotel Dare, reprinted with permission from Gattina Dumpling:
I was Trevor Brown when I was a child.
I had Barbie dolls, jointed arms and thousand-yard come-hither stares, plastic legs that were easily broken and discarded amongst crayons and rubber Princess jewelry at the bottom of my toybox. Barbie now with a new haircut, shorn with red safety scissors and her tiny doll head exposed, black magic marker painting her lips and electrical tape tightly wound around her curvy synthetic body. I think, as a rule,most forms of doll extreme makeovers performed by little girls are done to Barbie and her counterparts , we are more careful with our babydolls, we tend to nurture them and adore them until we get our first Barbie, and then they are thrown into a pile to be forgotten, they have no pink Trans Am, no townhouse with working elevator, no breasts to be at once fascinated by and terrified of.
But Trevor plays with babydolls too.
I had seen his work in Answer Me! in 1994 and was reintroduced to his work when he illustrated the cover of a book I was in that was published in 2000. Pigtailed nurses crouching in corners surrounded by shiny medical implements, amputee latex-clad fetish doll parts piled in a corner, tiny, gossamer winged fairies impaled on metal spikes with blood gushing from their chest cavities. Bruised and bandaged with braces and cervical collars, black-eyed dolls squint at the viewer, a necklace of barbed wire and sharp razor blades encircling their tiny throats.
"Pornographic", "Disturbing", "Exploitative", "Offensive"..
I don't feel it. Maybe because I'm a japanophile and have a penchant for anything girly. I am also quite fond of medical art, and medical equipment as fashion accessories. Trevor's art is all of this, cute and shocking and humourous and ... I think his art is for girls. Girls get it. Girls who mutilated our Barbies and ourselves, girls who carved the names of teenage boyfriends into our forearms with dime store razorblades, girls who pierced our own noses while sitting on the bathroom counter, sucking on a cherry blowpop to distract us from the pain.
Girls who wear legbraces and are always on the lookout for the perfect bloody skin. Girls who swoon over Blythe dolls and have Tokyo dreams.
We are honoured that Trevor has allowed us to showcase his work at The Hotel Dare. All images are copyright Trevor Brown. For more of his amazing art, please visit http://www.pileup.com/babyart/
This room was made possible by Gattina Dumpling (http://www.thehoteldare.com), Daniel Luchador, Katat0nik Pidgeon, Marie Lauridsen ,Allegory Malaprop and Helianthus Mesmer.
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