Sascha Hughes-Caley (PA)
April 1-30, 2016
No Joke
No Joke is an installation of performance documentation, sculpture, and new video work. The exhibition is framed as a meditation on “endings”: a sunset; a speech never delivered; an interview botched; a rehearsed departure; a miscommunication occurring when symbols of one culture circulate in another.
By examining the economic, political, and social structures of the American wellness market – specifically, how focus on personal empowerment or purpose can become a mania – Hughes-Caley works to deliver an incisive critique of the limits of triumphalism.
Sascha Hughes-Caley is a multidisciplinary artist whose primary artistic concerns are centered on conversations around power, gender, self-help, spirituality, and failure. Also trained as an actor, she is particularly interested in playing with the notion of rehearsal and the potential it has for flattening the language around our experiences. Hughes-Caley received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art with an emphasis in Time-Based Media and Performance from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Her work has been performed, screened, and exhibited in Philadelphia, Chicago, and Los Angeles, as well as in Canada, Mexico, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, and India. Sascha is currently adjunct faculty in the College of Media Arts and Design at Drexel University. She lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
