Jean Bodies

In these stop motion videos Megan Prince’s Jean Bodies sculptures explore and interact with their found environments. These environments are places they find themselves in, frequently exhibitions where they are on display.

Banding Together in Our Humanity visits Carbon

In this stop motion video Megan Prince’s Jean Body, Banding Together in Our Humanity experiences the group show Carbon at The Vestibule, visiting the works in the show and pondering the future…

Spinning Lines

Both transparent and solid, this site-specific string installation addresses the circular nature of life while toeing the line between drawing and sculpture. Why is it that we make the same choices and walk the same paths? Sometimes we get stuck and forget we have a choice. The truth comes out in the saying "We are creatures of habit." The seemingly simplistic aesthetic evokes a personal search for each viewer leading toward introspection and our human tendency to repeat ourselves.

Temporary Site-specific installation created for the exhibition If You See Nothing, Say Something at Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, NY.

Exhibition dates: May 22nd through July 25th, 2010
In conjunction with:
If You See Nothing, Say Something
A Group Show curated by Kiya Kim
With: Adam Parker Smith, Young Paik, Chong Gon Byun, Carolyn Salas, Eun Jung Hwang, Woolga Choi, Hong Seon Jang, Hee Jung Cho, Jason Peters, Julie Evanoff, Kiya Kim, Megan Prince, Noah Klersfeld, Richard Jochum, Sea Chang Chun, & Thomas McKean

Time-lapse photography by Adam Able.

Spinning Lines Live Performance is a collaborative piece. Performed on June 18, 2010.

Co-choreographed by Megan Prince, Jessica Anthony and Elinor Harrison, dancing by Jessica Anthony and Elinor Harrison. This performance was developed in conjunction with Megan Prince's site-specific installation Spinning Lines which was created for the exhibition If You See Nothing Say Something at Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, NY.

Writings on the wall

In 2009 I created my installation piece Writings on the Wall. I put nails down the two sides of the selected installation site from top to bottom. Then carefully wound string between the nails up and down wall several times. Occasionally a string would slip off the nail and I would leave the loose loop to “float” and be bound-in among the string lines behind and in front of it. This art piece is about how the future and the past give equally clear signs when a situation is going to become very difficult or unpleasant but when you are in the midst of it there is nothing to be done.

Spurred on by revolving thoughts over my above installation, Writings on the Wall, choreographer Arron Rachel Masters created a little movement sketch (Writings on my Mind) based on a dream she had.

After Arron shared her dance piece with me we paired up with our friend Tom Eaton, an animator, to re-record the dance phrase in front of a green screen, in order to create a digital collaboration of visual & performance art.

Well, after a bit of trial & error, another video shoot, much hard work by Tom and many thanks to another friend, Ryan Simms, for helping to make this possible – we’re happy to share with you Writings Converged.

Dancing by Elinor Harrison, visual art by Megan Prince, digital compositing by Tom Eaton, videography by Ryan Simms at Radio Tag, choreography by Arron Masters.

Eight Years and 12 Days

Eight Years and 12 Days is a one night performance by Megan Prince, joined by her husband Theo Prince in 2008. During the three hours performance work they use seperate lines of white fabric, pulled from off screen, and hand-construct an abstract nest-like form, becoming encased by it in the end.

Nothing can remain the same as it was now.

We make choices, even when we don’t want to make them.

Time passes, things change; everything moves and stretches with the pull of life.

The bonds that are formed between two people's spirits and hearts in a relationship are jointly woven. In this performance, Theo and I weave a Relationship that will envelop us, demonstrating the stages our relationship has gone through and the continual need for communication with each other to make our relationship work in life.

This art piece is dedicated to my husband, Theo, in honor of our anniversary.

Performance by Megan and Theo Prince. Videography by Christy Hayner.

This video has been condensed down from three hours of footage. The original performance on April 20, 2008 at Rififi in NYC.