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August Artist-in-Residence: Camila Carper
Camila Carper (@camillacarper) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator exploring the murky boundaries between individual and collective identities through dress codes, performance, sculpture, and social engagement.
They hold an MFA in Sculpture from Yale and a BFA in Integrated Fashion from Parsons. Much of their practice unfolds through long-term dressing experiments—self-imposed dress codes that reframe daily life as performance.
For the past 7 months, they’ve been wearing As Much Clothing As Possible—making every garment from scratch in shades dyed to match their skin tone, aiming to accumulate and carry the maximum volume of fabric their body can hold in any given situation.
As they navigate New York City within these self-constructed logic systems, Carper's body both aligns with and resists dominant infrastructures. Their clothing becomes a unit of measure—a tool to recalibrate social order and render visible the codes embedded in shared dress. The work offers a more legible key—a guide, a scale—to the complex network of signs and symbols that shape clothing and self-presentation. It reveals the motives beneath our shared visual language.
Their installations and performances are made in relation to these dressing practices, offering spaces for reflection, exchange, and participation. During their residency at Otion Front Studio, Carper is building a meta-performance within As Much As Possible, exploring the weight of a soul in a hybrid reality.
Photo by Jascon Campbell @superneck
We are a single small studio for rehearsal and performance exploration. We believe in a poetic means of processing information. As we move through constantly changing paradigms, Otion Front Studio offers space for moving it through the body.
Otion Front is run 100% on work-exchange, ticket sales, and donations from our community.
Accessibility & Warnings: There are several flights of stairs to access the building, if you need help using the stairs please notify us and we will be there to assist. Masks and proof of vaccine encouraged at shows. Email us at otionfront@gmail.com.
Established in March 2014 by Monica Mirabile & Sigrid Lauren