OAKLEY BOYCOTT
“Art is anything and everything done with passion and attention to detail that shifts the way we experience the world.”
SILENCE
SILENCE will be installed at the Bighorn Arts Collective Festival on August 8th at the Whitney Commons Park in Sheridan, WY from 2pm-8pm with no breaks, contributing to durational work 737, which aims to log 737 hours of performance of SILENCE before 2029.
SILENCE will conclude with an artist Q&A/ TALK BACK
ECHO.
ECHO is a collaborative endurance art installation on community mental health.
NOISE
NOISE was a three-day long community collaborative mental health installation performed on the day before, on and after the 2024 election. A ‘auditory rage room” was created in the Carnegie Room of the Lander Library which cultivated a container for pure freedom of expression, protected by the First Amendment. Audience members were encouraged to express themselves in any capacity with no repercussions.
NOISE was funded almost entirely by elected officials and candidates running for public office.
S O U N D
Premiered October 9-11 at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming for the Wyoming Arts Council Biennial Fellowship exhibition,“Wyoming Wind” curated by Ginger Porcella, in conjunction with the Wyoming Arts Council summit, “Rooted and Ready”.
SOUND is the fourth endurance installation of the SENSES series following SILENCE, ECHO and NOISE.
SOUND was performed for three days with no breaks in the gallery of the Nic and is a collaborative documentation of the sounds we take for granted.
SOUND concluded with an artist talkback moderated by Anne Mason
sponsored by Artillect
So that it would be proof that we existed.
Photography by Mei Ratz
“Oakley Boycott is the kind of outlandish talent that Broadway used to harvest and write shows around; the sort of performer that has no better use for anyone but to be musical comedy star.”
-BroadwayWorld
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'...the hands-down winner was scene-stealing newcomer: Oakley Boycott...'
-Wall Street Journal