“Dana Osburn filters banal experiences, physical and emotional, through song, dance, live-eating and media-based sign-systems.” – Sarah G Sharp


My live performances are multi-media, lo-fi spectacles that (usually) involve costumes and the live consumption of food. They are my deranged coping mechanism for the burden of corporeality.

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Images above:

A More Interesting Ancestor, 2015, a live performance broadcast via Instagram in which I pasted the pages of my 2013 MFA thesis paper to my body and tried to upload my DNA to the cloud by licking a USB stick.

Compression Guidelines for Reduced Bandwidth Situations and Other Feats of Strength, 2015, a live performance performed in the Wrythe Studio gallery as part of Animal Architectures, curated by Sarah G Sharp. I performed live eating, effed up monologues, and a broadway song (complete with backup dancers) against the backdrop of a heinous free powerpoint template. Read more about the show here.

Extra Crispy @ the Amateur Drag Pageant, 2018, performed live at The Tank as part of Alison Guerra’s amateur drag pageant. (I won, by the way.)

Extra Crispy @ the Amateur Drag Pageant REDUX, 2018, performed live at The Tank as part of Alison Guerra’s amateur drag pageant. (I did not win.)

Medium Pepperoni, Stuffed Cheesy Bread, Marinara Dipping Sauce, Molten Lava Cakes, plus tax, tip and delivery fee, 2016, 

“What was once asked of architecture, though, is now accomplished by other means, both informational and computational. Now the presence and vehicular movement of people and objects through global space is tightly integrated with an infrastructure of software, and to send objects in motion or to impede their trajectory is a logistical labor performed by pulses of light as much as flesh and steel.”
- Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

This performance is part of artist Dana M Osburn’s ongoing investigation into the nature of the self as it exists in both digital and corporeal space, simultaneously alone and ubiquitously connected.A reflection on the mundane experience of the privileged individual in late capitalist America (read: the artist) as it conflicts with the violence of speed in the digital age, “Medium Pepperoni, Stuffed Cheesy Bread, Marinara Dipping Sauce, Molten Lava Cakes, plus tax, tip and delivery fee” focuses around two fundamental and inexorable sites of corporeality: the consumption of food and the physical habitation or home using time as an unknowable and uncontrollable variable as determined and misrepresented throughout the performance by the Domino’s Pizza Tracker.

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