rahne alexander

Sick Transit is a tripartite intermedia piece about medicine, mobility, and art-making within a mother/daughter relationship defined by multiple sclerosis and transsexuality. The titular video performance is featured in Let’s Exchange, a streaming telethonic variety/talk show hosted by the artist, and framed by Control Room, an installation replicating the artist’s pandemic studio. Visit rahne.com/letsexchange for updates and information on viewing Let’s Exchange.

Sick Transit (2021)

Sick Transit is an exemplativist femmage, comprising a series of autobiographical monologic performances meditating on mobility, maternity, gender, feminism, and systems of healthcare in the relationship between two artists: the transsexual daughter of a devout Mormon who lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 30 years.
The Sick Transit monologues are exhibited on a monitor in the gallery as part of the artist’s Control Room installation in Home Bodies. They are also viewable at the Let’s Exchange Youtube channel.  (see links below)

Let’s Exchange (2021)

A telethon talk show featuring performances by the artist from her Sick Transit series and interviews with Baltimore-based artists Jamie Grace Alexander, Sandy Asirvatham, ellen cherry, Elizabeth Downing, Linda Franklin, Hunter Hooligan, Eze Jackson, Lynne Parks, Jack Pinder, Sarah Pinsker, Mejdulene Shomali, Tyler Vile, and Melissa Wimbish, as well as the artists of the 2021 IMDA MFA class: Safiyah Cheatam, Lindsay D’Andelet, Danielle Damico, Elijah Davis, Maksym Prykhodko, and Amelia Voos. Let’s Exchange is presented on a continual loop in the Control Room installation, and will also be accessible online via Youtube.

Let’s Exchange with guest Melissa Wimbish

Let’s Exchange with guest Liz Downing

Control Room (2021)

A true-to-scale recreation of the artist’s studio, a confined space which has had to serve as a recording studio, a painting studio, a classroom, a research library, a screening room, an office, and broadcast studio during the COVID-19 quarantine. Control Room contains artifacts, resources, tools, and original artworks by the artist and her mother, as well as looping video of the artist’s telethon talk show Let’s Exchange.

rahne alexander

Sick Transit is a tripartite intermedia piece about medicine, mobility, and art-making within a mother/daughter relationship defined by multiple sclerosis and transsexuality. The titular video performance is featured in Let’s Exchange, a streaming telethonic variety/talk show hosted by the artist, and framed by Control Room, an installation replicating the artist’s pandemic studio. Visit rahne.com/letsexchange for updates and information on viewing Let’s Exchange.

Sick Transit (2021)

Sick Transit is an exemplativist femmage, comprising a series of autobiographical monologic performances meditating on mobility, maternity, gender, feminism, and systems of healthcare in the relationship between two artists: the transsexual daughter of a devout Mormon who lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 30 years.
The Sick Transit monologues are exhibited on a monitor in the gallery as part of the artist’s Control Room installation in Home Bodies. They are also viewable at the Let’s Exchange Youtube channel.  (see links below)

Let’s Exchange (2021)

A telethon talk show featuring performances by the artist from her Sick Transit series and interviews with Baltimore-based artists Jamie Grace Alexander, Sandy Asirvatham, ellen cherry, Elizabeth Downing, Linda Franklin, Hunter Hooligan, Eze Jackson, Lynne Parks, Jack Pinder, Sarah Pinsker, Mejdulene Shomali, Tyler Vile, and Melissa Wimbish, as well as the artists of the 2021 IMDA MFA class: Safiyah Cheatam, Lindsay D’Andelet, Danielle Damico, Elijah Davis, Maksym Prykhodko, and Amelia Voos. Let’s Exchange is presented on a continual loop in the Control Room installation, and will also be accessible online via Youtube.

Let’s Exchange with guest Melissa Wimbish

Let’s Exchange with guest Liz Downing

Control Room (2021)

A true-to-scale recreation of the artist’s studio, a confined space which has had to serve as a recording studio, a painting studio, a classroom, a research library, a screening room, an office, and broadcast studio during the COVID-19 quarantine. Control Room contains artifacts, resources, tools, and original artworks by the artist and her mother, as well as looping video of the artist’s telethon talk show Let’s Exchange.