lady, on a line drive to dork-shirt

At once ‘loving and cruel’ according to the artist, Lilly McElroy has generated a broad portfolio of performance pieces exploring the overlap of private behavior in public spaces.

One of her pieces “I Throw Myself At Men” involves the artists 1. Asking men if she can throw herself at them, and then 2. Literally jumping through the air towards them. 3. An accomplice snapping a photo of the exact moment she throttles towards their unsure, mannish embrace.

This harkens back to one of my earliest performance pieces “Restraining Order Blues,” which involved me hosting :25 second figure-drawing classes outside of public restrooms.

Shock and Awe, far to the left. Her eyes stick out.