Amber Hawk Swanson worked on multi-platform performative auction of the 556 pieces of her identical life-like sex doll, Amber Doll, that remain after Hawk Swanson transformed her doll's body into a small replica of the bull orca Tilikum, who lived in captivity in Sea World Orlando and has been involved in the deaths of three humans.
Discipline:
Interdisciplinary Art – new media
Amber Hawk Swanson
Discipline:
Interdisciplinary Art – new media
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2013
Studios
Putnam
Amber Hawk Swanson worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…