She Shell — Michelle Antonisse

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She Shell's "Rock Unsteady"

Claire Donoghue and Michelle Antonisse

"Rock Unsteady" explores a performance piece featuring She Shell (Michelle Antonisse), originally shown at Angel's Gate Cultural Center in 2014. In this work, She Shell, as water incarnate, is oppressed and controlled by the privatization and redirection of herself as a natural resource. This work features music by Aretha Franklin, rearranged by Jeff Brodsky.

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She Shell's "The Tide is High"

Hannah K Johnson and Michelle Antonisse

The Tide is High is a fantasy music video where She Shell, an embodiment of the Ocean, pines for humankind to respect and love her, bemoaning their attachment to other entities such as capital and commodity. This work features music by Blondie and a set designed by Martabel Wasserman in collaboration with Van Projects.

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She Shell's "Lost or Found"

Michelle Antonisse

"Lost or Found" is a new work exploring the human-centered narrativization of the apocalypse. In this performance, She Shell uses the language of drag to express her disdain for a doomed relationship with her unrequited love: humankind. Performed at Human Resources, Los Angeles.

She Shell Presents: Spiderfest

In October 2022, She Shell was honored to host a community celebration of spiders, and their symbolic power as storytellers, who continually reuse and reweave their expressions into new iterative expressions of art and survival. The festival included communal spell-casting and several performances, including She Shell’s rendition of “A Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush.