Genevieve Belleveau

Genevieve Belleveau
Born 1984 (age 31–32)
Bemidji, Minnesota
Alma mater Bennington College
Known for Performance art
Notable work Emoji Autism Facial Recognition Therapy

Genevieve Belleveau (also known as gorgeousTaps) (born 1984)[1][2] is an American performance artist and singer based in New York City and Los Angeles.[3] Belleveau is best known for her relational art pieces which involve the audience in the art.[4] She confronts within her work issues of human connection, technology and religious ritual.[5] She was also a driver of a Mister Softee ice cream truck[6] and has managed operations for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.[7]

Early life

Belleveau was born in Bemidji but grew up in the village of Puposky, Minnesota.[8][9] She attended Bennington College[2] and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Performance Art in 2007. She moved to New York City in 2008 and secured a job driving a Mister Softee Ice Cream truck from which she created performance art, music, and photography.[10]

Work

In 2009 she began her backyard performance series,[11] The Church of gorgeousTaps and the Reality Show[12] which used the traditional structure of a Lutheran Mass in a secular celebration of the creative process. Belleveau's work was scouted by Lilith Performance Studio in Malmo, Sweden who invited her to produce a series of performances in an exact replica of her Greenpoint backyard apartment.[13][14] She went on to create similar services in Rotterdam, Netherlands[15] and New York, New York.[16][17]

After working with the church she developed in 2011, the idea of producing a reality television show that happened entirely within the Facebook interface. She collaborated with artist and VH1 reality star Ann Hirsch[18] in creating a web-based performance that would mimic the style of a reality television show.[19]

In her 2013 piece, Emoji Autism Facial Recognition Therapy examined common misinterpretations people make with emojis and she created a chart cataloging the emotions, as dictated by Siri.[20] Belleveau had a corresponding performance in which hypothetical (and emotional) scenarios are given and you must use the limited emojis to communicate your feelings, this was used in the context of explaining how autism works.[21]

In 2013 she began an IndieGogo campaign[22] to fund the purchase of an RV Motorhome which she called The Mobile Monastery.[23] She cut her hair in a monk tonsure[24] to promote the project, and traveled from New Orleans to Los Angeles in the motorhome, examining the intersection of technology, attention and solitude.[5]

In 2014 she introduced her Sacred Sadism[25][3] floral healing practice which draws from both BDSM and alternative therapeutic methods as a form of private performance.[26]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Genevieve Belleveau (USA) | Lilith Performance Studio". lilithperformancestudio.com. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  2. 1 2 "Member Spotlight: Genevieve Belleveau aka gorgeousTaps (Brooklyn, NYC)". Contemporary Performance. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  3. 1 2 Bess, Gabby (2015-02-12). "Artist Genevieve Belleveau Explores the Softer Side of BDSM in Sacred Sadism". Paper Magazine. Paper Publishing Company. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  4. ↑ Alvarez, Ana Cecilia (2013-09-22). "The Artists of gURLS". The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast Company LLC. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  5. 1 2 "Artist Profile: Genevieve Belleveau". Rhizome. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  6. ↑ Crow, Sarah (2009-07-07). "No Ice Queens, Just Ice Cream-An Interview with the Queen Frostine Ice Cream Girls". Guest of a Guest. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  7. ↑ "The Big Gay Ice Cream Truck". New York Street Food. Street Eats. 2012-06-15. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  8. ↑ "Meet: Genevieve Belleveau". The Creators Connect. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  9. ↑ "Artist Bio" (PDF). Vogt Gallery. Retrieved 2016-04-02.
  10. ↑ "Queen Frostine Makes Ice-Cream-Truck Jingle Tolerable". Grub Street. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  11. ↑ Chang, Talisa (2009-12-17). "Greenpoint's Church of gorgeousTaps". Greenpoint Gazette. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  12. ↑ Valencia, Lena (2010-07-01). "Genevieve Belleveau". Bomb Magazine. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  13. ↑ Stigsdotter, Ingrid (2010-03-08). "Farväl till ironin (Farewell to the irony)" (in Swedish). Sydsvenskan. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  14. ↑ Erlandsson, Yvonne (2010-03-03). "En bakgård i New York - i Malmö (A backyard in New York - in Malmö)". Skanskan Dagbladet (in Swedish). Skanskan. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  15. ↑ "Act IX: Let Us Compare Mythologies". Witte de With Contemporary Art. Witte de With. 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  16. ↑ "Like: A Performance Series". Johannes Vogt. VOGT Gallery. 2011-06-01. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  17. ↑ "Collaborative Means". Flux Factory. Flux Factory. 2011-10-19. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  18. ↑ Archey, Karen (2012-03-07). "Artist Profile: Ann Hirsch". Rhizome. Rhizome. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  19. ↑ Archey, Karen (2011-02-01). "Studio Visit: The Real World of Ann Hirsch". Blouin ArtInfo. Louise Blouin Media. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  20. ↑ "This Artist Uses Emoji to Explore Empathy, Autism, and How We Connect". WIRED magazine. Condé Nast. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  21. ↑ "Do Emoji Speak Louder Than Words?". Brit + Co. Brit Media, Inc. 2016-02-01. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  22. ↑ "CLICK HERE to support MOBILE MONASTERY". Indiegogo. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  23. ↑ PAPERMAG. "Artist Genevieve Belleveau's Experiment in Urban Asceticism". PAPERMAG. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  24. ↑ "Tucked In — Meet Genevieve Belleveau aka GorgeousTaps aka...". tucked-in.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
  25. ↑ "ARTIST GENEVIEVE BELLEVEAU EXPLORES THE SOFTER SIDE OF BDSM IN "SACRED SADISM"".
  26. ↑ "Genevieve Belleveau Interview". newhive.com. Retrieved 2016-03-19.

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