Xander Marro (American b. 1975) is a fake scientist/olde style tinker residing at the dirt palace; a feminist cupcake encrusted netherworld located along the dioxin filled banks of the Woonasquatucket river (which is to say in Providence, RI USA). From this post she makes movies, puppet shows, prints and phone calls. Her adventures underground have included curating the "Movies with Live Soundtracks" film series and performing in various theatrick/musical formats as one of the variety of her alter egos (Madame Von Temper Tantrum, Lady Long Arms, Lil Blood-n-Guts, Madame Von Malt Liquor etc.) Of recent days she has gotten herself deep into the wild world of community organizing around neighborhood social justice and human rights issues.

 

PIPPI ZORNOZA is an artist, musician, performer and co-founder of the Dirt Palace in Providence Rhode Island. She is characterized by the incredible variety of media in which she works. The extreme intricacy and meticulousness of her work evidence a system of self imposed rules bordering on the obsessive. This maniacally disciplined approached manifests printmaking, embroidery, lace making, carving, knitting, musical performance, installation, sewing and drawing. Her printmaking work has been exhibited in the United States as well as Japan, Argentina, Columbia and Sweden,and was published in the art-poster anthology, , The Art of Modern Rock. Pippi is known for her frightening performance style which manifests the undernourished expression of female power. In 2004 she formed the musical performance project Bonedust, with musician/composer Chrissy Wolpert. Bonedust toured the US in 2006 and is featured in the Corleone Records 10 year anniversary DVD "Everything I own in Either Broken or Bent". Formed out of a mutual period of desperation, VVLTVRE a collaboration with Annapurna Himal Wagner began performing in 2007. VVLTVRE'S debut release is slated on .Corleone Records for next year. Other musical projects of hers include: Throne of Blood (2002-03) released on Corleone Records; Sawzall (2001-02); and the ongoing solo project, Master Pizor (songs for the heartbroken, horny and metalheads. Pippi is also the star in the cult movie classic, Die You Zombie Bastards, directed by Caleb Emerson. Someday she will direct and perform in a musical where she will star as death.

JAMIE URETSKY

Spawned from a large egg on the isle on Nwar, J.R. Uretsky crawled from her fetal cocoon to Providence, RI where she broke into the Dirt Palace and slept in a nest of dust, cat vomit and detached armpit hair for thirty years.   When she was found she was emaciated and ugly. Uretsky had kept herself alive by suckling from the teat of a pregnant gerbil who she later took as her wife. Once nursed back to health Uretsky joined the public education system and currently teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University.  J.R. and her wife, Nibbles McGobble-Uretsky, are located in Providence and plan to use in vitro to start their family. Please send sperm samples to The McGobble-Uretsky's c/o the Dirt Palace.

J.R. Uretsky received her BFA at BIOLA University in Los Angeles, CA and her MFA at the University of Connecticut. Uretsky has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and Germany. Her work has been published by online and video journals such as Gaga Stigmata and ASPECT‐EZ.

Sam Merritt

TRAINING < EXPERIENCE
Shopping is stupid.

Sam makes sweet clothes from other clothes, builds things from other things, repairs antique books, makes signs, and plenty else. She avoids the stores by going through the trash a lot, and making everything herself. Not cause she's cheap, unfriendly, and of limitless ability, which are also very true, but to avoid all the applicable mind poisons of today! (That's right, mind poisons. You see ad in front of the youtube video she sees "mind poison." You see new jacket she sees "mind poison." Energy drinks alone escape her scrutiny!)

Not only does she make all the things and dodge all the landmines, she crashes cymbals around the world in wild brass band What Cheer? Brigade, and abuses the mic in the awesome punk band the Cavegirls. Her independent, generous demeanor, and love of hard work have landed her many character building and many character dissolving experiences. Looking forward to the rest!

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KIMI CAKES
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mickey zacchilli
b. 1983

likes breakfast, likes fun socks, now owns a van. one day aspires to have hair longer than natalja mickeyz.org

Rebecca Mitchell

?b 1982
?Pisces 2
?Week of the Loner
?Day of Heaven and Hell

Born in the Bible Belt. Loves Jesus; not joking. Raised by an understated Methodist percussionist gone Zen and a chic square-dancing bohemian. Brought up singing in the classical tradition. Began playing guitar and writing in bands at 14, gigging with a fake ID at 15. Ran screaming from the Midwest in 2001, began to regret it in 2003. Laments a bad case of cosmic isolation, but not as much as she used to. Turn-ons include well punctuated text messages, scholarly musicianship, and drinking like a grown up. Music projects include Whore Paint, Sexaphone, Made In Mexico, Blood Sacrifice, Assembly of Light Women's Choir, and something without a name yet. The good news is, she's a visual artist now.

SASHA WISEMAN
b. 9/20/86, 3:19am, lat.41.82 long.-71.24

"Next level" baking pioneer, resident dilettante at M.I.T.'s Center for Advanced Visual Studies (where she assembles analog synthesizers with less efficiency and precision than the machines that would normally do her job), public access tv star, singer and performer of weird deeds in the band Russian Tsarlag. Exhibits extreme fondness for specific kinds of shoes and boots, Victoriana, 3-D pornographic photography, elusive New England sunburns, youtube, mirrors, latex couture and lo-fi video. Fun facts: her name is not really Sasha, she once had a (female) rabbit named Trent Reznor, and she cannot swim or whistle.

Carrie Collier is a writer, a visual artist, and a scholar. She studies anatomy, literature, foreign languages, and the occult. She wants to explore the ways in which language and imagery affect us intimately - how they arouse, distress, disgust us. She plays with the sorcerous or alchemical effects of words positioned and repositioned in relation to other words. She also makes films; regarding the relationship between her literary and cinematic praxes she writes: ?My films are about language and/or the body; my stories are about the body couched in language. The body, to me, is always a site of past or potential injury. Injury, in my work, wants to make an account of itself, to narrate a history, be rendered vocal. It wants to discover ? perhaps to indict ? a perpetrator. I like scarred bodies and scarred texts: works and forms that are crippled, that hobble, but that are potent enough to injure in turn, damage or harrow, that are thereafter culpable, injured and injuring alike.? Obsessions include: masks; chimeras; people eating animals, animals eating people, people eating people; female aggression; communication as failed intersection of consciousness vs. communication as communion; consensual sexual violence; and nihilist Francophone authors of the 20th century. She enjoys travel and a surprising number of popular television shows. She is willing to bet that she has seen more dead fetuses than anyone else at the Dirt Palace.

kristina brown
b. 1981

who is kristina brown? born in hartford, ct into a fundamentalist, born-again christian family. setter of fires. traveler of places. wnba pirate basketball superstar. maker of exceptional home-made fire death water, wreaker of havok. destroyer of homes and creater of faux shakespearian realities. eventually stumbled into the dirty place. gave it all up for adventure on the high seas, lost in time.

serena jv
b. 1987

serena was born in the desolate ice-tundra of norway in a possibly dishonest alternate reality. requiring a skill in order to survive the frozen white hell, she learned the ancient art of "timberframing" which may or may not actually exist. she made many skill-trades in exchange for basic sustinance, but was eventually destroyed by the international viking army for undisclosed reasons.

Kate Gronner survives exclusively off of chickpeas and chard, and possibly drinks as much tea, coffee, and other beverages as the whole dirt palace combined. She relocated to the providence from chicago during a blizzard in february 2006. She is excellent at loosing her cell phone, climbing trees and parallel parking pippi's van. She works in various mediums, such as embroidery, drawing, crochet, papier mache, carving, and printmaking, and is contemplating working in film again in the near future. Her interests include taxidermy, old pick up trucks, stereocards, blankets crocheted in striped patterns, succulents (and select other plants), her accordion, wood paneling, nature guides, encyclopedias, her mother's button collection, objects with a history, and the olneyville new york system. Rest in peace Salty.

Cassie Tharinger grew up in vermont—-but redneck vermont, not hippie vermont. she shares a birthday with george washington, teddy kennedy, frederic chopin (though his birth date is contested,) her great aunt faith, and julius "dr. j" irving, and someday they will all form a superstar basketball team together. she has been known to make costumes, undies, lampshades, little boxes with stories in them, movies, collages, drawings & sometimes prints, overly-conceptual installations involving ebay, and various apple desserts. she is fond of obscure children's books from the 70's, listening to the radio, irish whiskey, wendell berry, things that really happened, popcorn, and salt. currently, she is learning about herbs (cultivation and lore), and pondering the inevitable, imminent apocalypse.

Ian Cozzens is an artist, designer, screen printer, carpenter, and "emerging professional in the field of architecture". He has lived in Providence since 1999 (spending time also in Italy, Worcester MA, Philadelphia, and New Orleans). He received a bachelors' degree in architecture from RISD in 2005. Since then, he's worked on drawings, prints, and posters, organized the renovation of a kitchen in a collective house, mentored high school students in screenprinting and artmaking, and collaborated on participatory city-building projects. As an artist, builder and designer, he hopes to use his skills to create radical change in the world. Updates on his current projects can be found here.

Laura Rodriguez is in love with clay, candles, marinated mushrooms, maria (the cat), teaching, video & new media technology, and shamanic meditations. She is currently working on 2 installations & finishing up her movie, Lydia Li, which will soon be distributed to queer- & diversity-focused youth groups. For more info on that, check out www.LydiaPink.com.

Jo Dery draws pictures and makes short films. Her current project, "Echoes of Bats and Men," has received funding from theLEF Foundation and RI State Council on the Arts, and was screened in 2005. In 2002, she and friend Devon Damonte brought you the 24-hour Movie Making Experiment Tour, a project where crazy people stay up all night and make short films any way they can. She doubles as Peace Fancy Fancy, a former Dirt Palace pioneer, and faithful student of the natural world.

Sam Lopes

Samuel Lopes is a painter, carpenter, teacher and a feminist living in Oakland, California. He was part of the D.P. from 2001-2002 and learned how to hang drywall there and use a screw gun. For this he is eternally grateful. His current work has focused on queer history, and fantasy. In the last five years, he erected a monument to the dreams lost throughout the AIDS crisis, made a visual biography of a genderless society, and most recently began a series called "house of no," which begins to address a queer relationship to architecture and geographical location.

Erin Rosenthal
b. 1976 Planet Earth

creator of shadows, sculptures, and sounds as drummer/percussionist and singer in Crude Hill, Urdog, Sleepy Bones, and more guises to come.  a shape shifter of cut-paper prints and dancing feet, she transforms ordinary objects into forms for focusing the ground state and exploring the myriad realms of mystical experience.  most recently, she tends to spend as much time outside as possible, learning from plant and animal teachers.