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“[Being an artist is] being a rock-star, it’s being a doctor, it’s all of that. I like to do a little bit of everything, so if we wanted to sit down and do a piece that was us being electricians for a year, then we would do that. If I wanted to become a lawyer and represent a friend in a divorce trial, then I could do that.”

- Muistardeaux Collective

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Pam Martin & Linda Ford

December 31 1969

image Pam Martin and Linda Ford, Porta-Peephole, 2007, performance at Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco.

The work of Linda Ford and Pam Martin explores the complexity and instability of power relationships while also examining their own ambivalence and complicity. They are interested in the privileged eye, private property and public space. They investigate visuality and the expanding/contracting landscape of “self” within these structures of control. Their collaboration addresses personal repression and compliant behaviors through mutual acts of confrontation. In questioning the official discourses regarding normalcy they explore the exposure of personal and collective fear and desire.

Their work has recently been included in Humane Slaughter Acts Performance Festival, Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA (2009), Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2008); The Professionals, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA (2007); TERROR? Intersection for the Arts San Francisco, CA (2006); ELSEWHERE-ANDERSWO, Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany (2006); TRUTH AND LIES, Mission 17, San Francisco, CA (2006); Form/Reform, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA (2005); A Spoonful of Sugar, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2004); Test Tube: Freezer Burn, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004); and Lodged In, Big Oaks Lodge/Cal Arts, Saugus, CA (2003).

Pam Martin and Linda Ford in conversation with The Orchard Project

image Linda Ford and Pam Martin at the Orchard, February 13, 2009