HOUSECOATS is a collective formed by Olly Greer, Kaitlin Fox, and Mitchell Oliver. Together, we fuse installation, sculpture, and choreography to explore bodies-as-sites and sites-as-bodies through an excavation of memory. Recognizing the body as a potent site for self-knowing or capitalist extraction, our installations use visceral experiences to highlight the body’s presence; as an immediate path to a more felt place of consciousness. Using material intervention and performance, Housecoats agitates by calling attention to the social practices of rape, hazing, and broader institutions of oppression and violence. Our current research considers how patriarchal social spaces uphold harmful methods of maintaining power through hegemonic traditions. We study how the generational membership of elite male societies weave into the sociopolitical fabric of America. Housecoats disturbs the sediment of archaic legacies, while using care as a medium to overturning them.
We attend to the chores that the privileged have dismissed; there is work to do.
We love you,
Housecoats