alicia love mcdaid

trash picker i

alicia — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 15:04:13 +0000

An anthropological excursion.

Self Un-Help

alicia — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:14:38 +0000

Reverse re-birthing!

Pleasure Principal Performance

alicia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:56:50 +0000

Alicia and the Yoga Ball Bounce tear it up at Wieden+ Kennedy October 6th, 2011. (My Dad is also featured at the end of this video wearing an awesome Grateful Dead shirt.)

Untitled from Alicia McDaid on Vimeo.

The Pleasure Principal October 6-26 W+K Gallery

alicia — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 01:02:22 +0000

Wieden + Kennedy Portland
224 NW 13th Avenue Opening reception with performance by the artist

October 6, 6pm-9pm (performance 7:45)

“The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us — of becoming happy — is not attainable: yet we may not — nay, cannot — give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.”

-Sigmund Freud

“I know, what you mean to me
Baby this is nowhere
You know what came in between you and me, human differential
Sa dat dit dit dit baby
It’s the principle of pleasure
Oh, oh oh oh ah.”
-Monte Moir (as sung by Janet Jackson)

After 23 years of therapy, Alicia McDaid realized there was nothing wrong with her. Now what?

The Pleasure Principal documents her character driven performances in the shadows of environments people habitually and compulsively frequent in search of self-enhancement. From therapist’s chairs to tanning booths, McDaid’s photos, videos and performances explore the vulnerability, anxiety, narcissism and entertainment value inherent in the quest for transformational redemption. Sa dat dit dit dit baby.

Gimme Pizza Slow REdux

alicia — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:12:07 +0000

I loved “Gimme Pizza Slow” so much, I had to add more to the pizza…like Liquid Sky, Kate Bush, Estelle Getty and music by the Chromatics.

Alicia McDaid @ Worksound (Oh, Did I Assassinate Your Penguin?)

alicia — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:47:05 +0000

“Oh, Did I Assassinate Your Penguin?” (An evening of stand-up comedy by several Portland-based artists)
Hosted by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney @Worksound Thursday, August 19, 2010

Alicia McDaid @ Worksound (Oh, Did I Assassinate Your Penguin?) from OPENWIDEpdx on Vimeo.

don’t fart in my pussy and call it a whoopee cushion- (excerpt from the movie)

alicia — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:52:01 +0000

Golden Girls mash up Aerosmith and Lily Allen from Alicia McDaid on Vimeo.

RAD WAVE USA JUNE 10th @ NATIONALE

alicia — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:51:34 +0000

Thursday June 10th, 2010
7pm

Alicia McDaid & Paul Wig & Erik Blad & Scott Blais are Rad Wave U.S.A. They will perform music that will be released this fall on Who Let the Dog Out records. All members have a thing for pizza and power forwards. They are very excited. Dancers will join them. We hope you will too.

Galactic Daughters of Passion

alicia — Wed, 26 May 2010 01:05:36 +0000

Galactic Daughters of Passion ah-tayne at The Woods 5/23/10 from Alicia McDaid on Vimeo.

Kathleen Keogh, Alicia McDaid, Lena Kassof, & Sarah Johnson presenting…

“The Galactic Daughters of Passion” (GDP) a groundbreaking technique for Self Realizing Group Think (GDP)
Learn how to use each other in workplace to ah-tayne the Ultimate Truth of non-existenz™ of the “I” and and and total submission to the “W.E”. It is the first technique of its kind in all of history.

Dark: A Show to Winter

alicia — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:39:57 +0000

DARK: A SHOW TO WINTER

Curated by the Blood Rainbow Family

FEBRUARY 5 – MARCH 13, 2010

1430 SE 3rd Avenue

Portland, OR 97214

OPENING FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 6-9PM

In a 1998 interview Alan Vega of electronic duo Suicide described the live experience of the band as “you are coming off the street to come into the street.” The exhibition DARK: A SHOW TO WINTER will function under the same premise. Opening during the dead of a Portland winter, DARK will include work that addresses and/or reflects this outside environment. The grim, the cold and the black will mingle with the solitary, the contemplative and the transcendent. Explorations of dark and winter drawn from both a common visual culture, as well as more personal voids, will work together to bring the vast, seemingly endless dark winter into the confines of the gallery space.

- The Blood Rainbow Family