Dr. Cara Judea Alhadeff, anarchist mother, performance artist, photographer, writer, climate-justice organizer, and educator, has published dozens of critically-acclaimed books and essays on critical philosophy, spirituality, epigenetics, sexuality, art, petroleum parenting, and living our ecological ethics. A former professor at UC Santa Cruz, her photographs and performance-videos are in private and public collections including MoMA Salzburg and San Francisco MoMA. Alhadeff teaches, performs, and parents creative-zero-waste living in her family’s eco-art installation repurposed school bus: www.carajudeaalhadeff.com
Trickster Menage-a-Trois
Video installations of my self portraits projected across my body as I dance/ photography myself...cinematic video-projection installations of my autoethnographic ecological-justice photographs intended to provoke audience discussion and group action.
Embodying the Apocalypse-Self-Portrait #336
Combining concepts and practices of Animal Studies (specifically what I call Interspecies Intimacies) and Disability Studies, I play on the border of California and Mexico—photographing and writing at Bombay Beach, a nebulous artist colony at the edge of the Salton Sea—massively contaminated by Big Ag and now a dominant site for lithium mining. My movement is the key to open the doors of my perception. There is no hierarchy within these multiple entwinements of body intelligence and body wisdom. The apocalypse cannot be segregated, localized, or categorized; it is inherently messy, relational.
