THUMP
Martha Wilson is a pioneer feminist artist and gallery director, who is known for exploring her female subjectivity through role-playing and costume transformations, where she invades other personae. “Thump” was created when Wilson started performing as Donald Trump before the election, in hopes of being able to retire the persona after November 9th, 2016. She chose to personify Trump, because she saw it as a chance to satirize someone who deserves to be satirized. Whenever she is in a role-playing position, Wilson says she tries to get into their mind set, but with Trump, she couldn’t nor didn’t want to get into that mind. Because of this, the performance is really just Martha Wilson dressed up as Donald Trump, speaking about how she has seen the art and politics scene has changed over the past fifty years. Her performance is exhibited at The 8th Floor Gallery, which is an independent exhibition and event space in New York City.