Olivia Mole is an artist and educator who works across disciplines including installation, performance, drawing, and animation. She examines the ways in which popular culture serves historical and contemporary ideologies and explores ways in which those ideologies can become unfixed, politically and personally.
She has participated in exhibitions, screenings, and performances at the Hammer Museum, 2220 Arts, Weirdo Night, Gattopardo LA, LAXART, JOAN Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, The Wattis Institute, Southern Exposure and Cloaca Projects, San Francisco, among others, and teaches graduate and undergraduate classes in video, performance, and studio practices at UCLA, UC Riverside and California Institute of the Arts.
At MacDowell she scripted the audio parts of an ongoing project involving three characters are derived from the Charmin Bear, Skeletor, and a human dressed as a tree. They shift and merge with each other as they try to find their collective and singular states of being despite the baggage of their histories.
