GET HUBBIED

The marriage project I conceived early this winter now feels like a real undertaking instead of just a conversation. It all started with thoughts of doing a group show on marriage - to study it, think about it, discuss it and create something about it. My life has been touched by the institution time and time again in that my parents married and divorced each other a few times, both my sis and I have married and divorced, and the prop 8 issue has brought marriage into the forefront of current discussions. I thought it fair game and of interest as a topic for art making.

With time and reflection the group show structure was too lifeless as a format for Get Hubbied. I came around to the fact that the format needed to be a wedding itself; all the players within would be the creators of the wedding, including the couple, the bride and groom’s families, my family, the artists, Tif and me. So, I began thinking of this more as a collaborative event, and to choose the couple based on their ability to enjoy and participate in this unconventional but very joyous way of discussing, questioning and celebrating the institution of marriage.

Though, through various technological challenges and learning curves broached and battled, proudly, the first few interviews have been filmed, and the footage awaits our virtual red pen...and then we'll begin posting them to the website.

Stay tuned.

xHubbyCo

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From Dictionary.com

mar-riage [mar-ij] noun 1. a.the social institution under which a man and woman establishtheir decision to live as husband and wife by legalcommitments, religious ceremonies, etc. Antonyms:separation. b.a similar institution involving partners of the same gender:gay marriage. Antonyms: separation. 2. the state, condition, or relationship of being married; wedlock: ahappy marriage. Synonyms: matrimony. Antonyms: single life,bachelorhood, spinsterhood, singleness; separation. 3. the legal or religious ceremony that formalizes the decision of twopeople to live as a married couple, including the accompanyingsocial festivities: to officiate at a marriage. Synonyms: nuptials,marriage ceremony, wedding. Antonyms: divorce, annulment. 4. a relationship in which two people have pledged themselves toeach other in the manner of a husband and wife, without legalsanction: trial marriage. 5. any close or intimate association or union: the marriage of wordsand music in a hit song. Synonyms: blend, merger, unity, oneness;alliance, confederation. Antonyms: separation, division, disunion,schism.

Origin: 1250–1300; Middle English mariage < Old French, equivalent to mari ( er) to marry1 + -age -age

Can be confused: ?marriage, wedding (see synonym note at thecurrent entry ).

Synonyms 3. Marriage, wedding, nuptials are terms for the ceremony uniting couplesin wedlock. Marriage is the simple and usual term, without implicationsas to circumstances and without emotional connotations: to announce themarriage of a daughter. Wedding has rather strong emotional, evensentimental, connotations, and suggests the accompanying festivities,whether elaborate or simple: a beautiful wedding; a reception after thewedding. Nuptials is a formal and lofty word applied to the ceremonyand attendant social events; it does not have emotional connotationsbut strongly implies surroundings characteristic of wealth, rank, pomp,and grandeur: royal nuptials. It appears frequently on newspaper societypages chiefly as a result of the attempt to avoid continual repetition of marriage and wedding.