Alexandra Bischoff
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Selected Projects
    • Attempts at Preservation
    • beholden
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • homesick
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
  • Partial Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Selected Projects
    • Attempts at Preservation
    • beholden
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • homesick
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
  • Partial Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum
Picture
​a woman's charm, 2016
long stemmed rose with thorns, bar of salted butter, mason jar, red candle, butter warmer, knife, ice water, ball gag, poem, guest speaker
performance duration: variable
a woman's charm is a performance that includes an abstract incantation of the same title. Both involve a satirical (yet earnest) and occult perspective on what constitutes woman within our society, focusing on how these elements can harbour great power, ​even when derided. The resulting sculptural object is intended as an "elixir" or "charm," fit to fortify even the most femme of femmes.

Performed for "SAD Spells" at the Vancouver Art Book Fair on October 15, 2016.
  • ALEXANDRA BISCHOFF
    • Statement & CV
  • Selected Projects
    • Attempts at Preservation
    • beholden
    • cherry shrimp and golden Laure
    • crick
    • give my regrets
    • Here you go, Bernard
    • homesick
    • house poor
    • Notes on Madonna
    • The Readers
    • Rereading Room: the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996)
    • secretory
  • Partial Archive
    • au clair de la lune
    • a muse me
    • Dear Large Bachelor
    • eggshells, eggshells
    • For the Good Times
    • Iron-Woman
    • I SEE THINGS IN YOU (36 Vancouver Galleries)
    • Peep Show Pop-Up
    • Skin on Skin
    • sleepy selfies
    • SOOT
    • Suds-Bucket
    • thrum