Born 1990, Edinburgh, Scotland
Based in Glasgow, Scotland
Rooted in performance, MV Brown’s practice uses the human body and new technologies to explore tensions across embodied subjectivity, the body as spectacle and socio-techno constructs of gender and sexuality. Their practice builds upon questions around the (non)performance of daily life & identity in a post-internet context. Drawing on cyberfeminist, glitch feminist and transhumanist approaches, they investigate avatars, prototypes, ‘false-self’hoods and the fallacy of the ‘IRL’.
Brown has an MA in Film & Television Studies and English Literature from the Universityof Glasgow, and an MLitt in Fine Art Practice from Glasgow School of Art. Previous exhibitions and performances include French Street Gallery, Glasgow; Glasgow International; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Celine Gallery, Glasgow; Maleki House, London; Grace Exhibition Space, NYC; and Venice International Performance Art Week. Residencies include Studio Somewhere, Tramway, Glasgow; Cove Park, Argyle & Bute; and Art/Life Institute, New York.
Brown also works as a makeup artist and has over 7 years industry experience working across beauty, fashion, commercial, film and music. Their makeup work has been published in magazines such as: Interview, Another Man, Elephant, Mixmag, and BRICKS.
They also work as an occasional visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Art.
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