Ainsley Elizabeth Tharp
Medium: visual art, performance art, dance, projection design, film, graphic design
Born in Oklahoma City grew up in Victoria Texas.
Graduated 2017 from the University of Iowa with a BFA in Dance
My art is visual. The work I make is manifested through performance.
My nudes are swimming somewhere on the internet in a nonplace space for someone to find l8r.
I like to make a big fucking mess//
but I guess that’s a thing humans do…
Movement is my meditation, a mode of processing, and the way I feel connected to some deeper truth buried in the ground.
I’ve been thinking about decomposing, being devoured by the bees I used to save from drowning in my backyard, shriveling up like a dried out flower eventually dissolving into dust.
I love the internet, I love a long slow luxurious roll up, I love being choked, I love my house plants, and sweet sweet honey.
I source my magic from mania, orgasms, and being outside in nature.
I think microwaves left out on the side of the road speak to me on a psychic level.
Press and Publications
Coming Soon
Movement for the Movement
facilitator
Wednesday's in April 2020
an experiment for Social movement activist and dancers to merge and share space.
Cassandra
Ballet by Marika Brussel
ODC San Francisco
April 17-19th 2020
Visual and Projection Designer
UNDERGROUND UNDERNEATH THE UNDERGROUND (PRELUDE)
CounterPulse San Francisco
May 22-24 2020
Choreographed by: randy reyes
In collaboration with: Bae Laurel, Fitchett, Felix Linck Sol Frenz, Melissa Lewis, Kim Ip, Gizeh Muñiz, Ainsley Elizabeth Tharp, & Sairé
Seductive Decomposition
Solo Show
ATA San Francisco
End of July 2020