Eric Doeringer with Eric Doeringer Costume

 

Eric Doeringer Costume

Mixed Media, Dimensions Variable, 1998

The Eric Doeringer Costume is based on football team mascots and Disney World characters. I used the costume as a combination of promotion for my MFA thesis show and performance art.

 

The week before the exhibition, I wore the costume and passed out handbills advertising the show in several high-traffic areas in Boston. I had four different flyer designs: two advertised the exhibition as an MFA thesis show and two advertised it as a "Giant Home Decorator Sale" and "Starving Artist Blowout". I posed for photographs with tourists and was harassed by locals.

 At the opening for the exhibtion, I hired two assistants. One wore the costume and the other, armed with a Polaroid camera, took souvenir photographs of visitors posing with the costumed character.

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