Noelle’s work lives as performative sculpture, objects, and video. She’s interested in performativity as a form of reenactment, and its potential to glitch into new narratives through cultural mythmaking. The impossibility of a singular object holding such an enormous feeling develop into moments of activation, questioning reliability and folding into a kind of celebration. Combining craft with improvised methods, elements ask for immediacy as theatrically sentimental props, distorting biographies, and racing disembodied weight down a hill to simulate a haunted memory. Her mom only spoke Chinese when she was counting or cursing. Otherwise, she said she didn’t remember. Diaspora is an obstacle course, not a single precious object. This activates the role of reenactment, of re-remembering, into the unreliable and absurd such as with intergenerational time travel, or peeling an orange. She’s thinking about how we get really big inside our body, giving grief a place to grow with love.
Noelle is currently an Assistant Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute in the Painting Department.
