Janine Renee Cunningham
New York, NY
Margaret Jacobs
Janine Renee Cunningham is an interdisciplinary artist, theater-maker, producer, and performer. Recent Work: In the End the Garbage Will Win, A Score for Free Time: Do Whatever You Want for 8 Hours” (created for The Syndicate’s A Day’s Work project), and Will They Play Golf on Mars?, presented at Dixon Place in 2019. She has also presented work at Prelude Festival, On the Boards, and the World Ecology Resource Network Conference. In 2020, she was an Associate Artist with Culture Push. In 2018, she was a fellow with EmergeNYC through the Hemispheric Institute. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art with a focus in Performance Creation from Goddard College (2021) and a BA in International Studies from Portland State University (2008). She attended the Evening Acting Conservatory program at the Atlantic Acting School
Artist Statement
Underpinning my art making is the belief that our thoughts, feelings and experiences are the products of an ever unfolding social and intellectual historical process. Working primarily within the documentary genre, making theater, performance and film, I employ techniques of collage or assemblage - using found text, audio, and images to recontextualize popular cultural narratives and examine this historical process. I am constantly curious about the historical contexts that make up events, words, and beliefs. Theoretically, my work engages with Social Theory, Marxism, and specific areas within Sociology and Anthropology. Currently, my work is focused on living in the anthropocene, and specifically, reckoning with how our culture may shift and coalesce around the conditions that define the anthropocene.