Hannah Raisin b. c.1990s

  • Artist (Performance Artist),
  • Artist (Video Artist)
Hannah Raisin is a Female Australian Contemporary Artist. Raisin is the primary figure in her; live and gallery performances, videos, sound and digital photography which challenges the limits of her own body. Her work is fueled by her interest and personal frustration in what society perceives to be behavioral norms in relation to femininity.
Tags: Feminist, Contemporary, Humour, Performance, Video
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contributor to
Lying in concrete
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Medium
Performance/ Sculpture
URL
http://hannahraisin.com/wp/portfolio/tl4e/

Hannah’s performance work (TL4E) is about the need to immortalise ourselves in forever.

 
Separation Anxiety
creator of
Foxy Chicks
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Medium
Photography
URL
http://flickr.com/photos/monash_gallery_of_art/7791722246/sizes/l/in/set-72157631092394564/
 
contributor to
Rose Garden
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Medium
Single Channel Video
URL
http://hannahraisin.com/wp/portfolio/rose-garden/
 
creator of
Milking
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Medium
video, performance
URL
http://hannahraisin.com/wp/portfolio/milking/

Raisin dressed in only pink underpants and a see through raincoat pours bottles of milk over her head on the footpath outside a cinema showing Mary Poppins. Raisin challenges societies acceptable behavioural norms.

 
creator of
Sugar
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Medium
Video, Performance
URL
http://hannahraisin.com/wp/portfolio/sugar/

Raisin clad in a costume made of Fruit Loops stands in a clam shaped paddle pool filled with milk. Raisin challenges the societies ideals of feminine beauty by referencing Disney’s “Little Mermaid” and Botticilli’s “Birth of Venus”. These artificial 'dream like’ images of woman which are unsustainable, are likened to the popular sugary breakfast cereal- Fruit Loops!

 
contributor to
Flowing Locks
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URL
http://hannahraisin.com/wp/portfolio/flowing-locks/

Flowing Locks was a live performance performed at the Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, in 2007. Raising dressed in a skin toned body suit dances across the stage airing her long extensions of body hair extruding from her underarm and pubic region.

 

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