thank you everyone, I want you all to be my Kardashian
Published on Monthly Art Assignments | February 2025
Link to ongoing collaborative series here.
Monthly Art Assignments is a project created by a tight-knit artist-friend group I am a part of. We all graduated from MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2022 - and this ongoing series of monthly ‘assignments’, each proposed by one of us, is a way to keep us all connected to each other (and art making!) in the great scattering after graduation. Life has sadly pulled us away from each other through physical distance and the demand of survival. Participating in this series has helped me significantly in prompting and sustaining my joy in making especially with the chaos of my own relocation from London to New Zealand.
“How do we stay connected when everything keeps shifting? This project is an answer—a way to process change and uncertainty through shared creative challenges, just like we did in college, but without the pressure or expectations. Instead of keeping in touch through words, WE CREATE —a language we all understand. There’s no right or wrong way to participate. It’s not about perfection or productivity. It is a shared experience. An open invitation to make something, together.”
February 2025 Assignment Description by Medb:
Rewrite Zoe Leonard's infamous "I want a dyke for president" as "I want a dyke Kardashian" - make it as long as you want, ascribe them some of your humanity.
The substantial weight of Zoe Leonard’s infamous “I want a dyke for president” was a feast to encounter in the year 2025. It was fruitful watching other prominent writers and artists respond to the piece at High Line Art’s afternoon of readings/performances (2016). So many magnetic words and phrases sounded the platform and moved the people out of immediate sight. I was inspired to collage some of these fragments with some cliché, textured headlines I came across to form this little piece. I envision a Kardashian lost to the mountains and stars and eventual galaxies because this planet simply holds too much incomprehensible lesser-of-two-evils noise.
