Narcissister

Narcissister is an American, Brooklyn-based, feminist performance artist, born of Moroccan Jewish and African-American descent.

She then worked as a window stylist and designer while completing the Whitney Independent Study Program and performing at burlesque shows around New York.

She has acknowledged previous inspirations like Adrian Piper, Marina Abramović, and Carolee Schneemann; however, her work seeks to use humor, irony, and sex beyond a singular political stance.

In 2011, Narcissister was also asked to be the date of and accompany goth singer Marilyn Manson to various events in California surrounding the screening of his film Born Villain.

Her most notable works include I'm Every Woman, a piece named after the song by Chaka Khan, in which she coined the term "reverse strip tease," by pulling clothing out of her bodily orifices and getting dressed that way.

This piece ended with an outside viewing of the videos at a Newsstand on Canal Street, a gallery space called Petrella’s Imports.

Another more recent work of hers is Organ Player, a full length cabaret piece in which Narcissister embodies multiple parts of the body, including but not limited to the hand, the breasts, the mouth, and the vagina.

The exhibit showed her unedited video project where willing participants were invited to step behind her famous mask and explore her artistic process in their own way, highlighting Freud's two types of narcissism "primary" and "secondary".

While attempting to get viewers to identify what it is in the "self" image that gets us to fall in love with it, it also beckons the question how can such beauty be admired in an artificially constructed subject.

[10] As a side project, Narcissister also collaborates musically with the electronic and noise musician EarthMasters, and their first 10-track album, Subliminal Weight Loss, was released in October 2014.