MEGAN YOUNG (MEGLOUISE)

MegLouise is a Cleveland-based interdisciplinary artist whose work centers physical experience and participatory action. She creates interactive installations, digital portraits, and coded rule sets that highlight agency within a given system. Viewers are included in the work through creation, activation, and distribution. Her work addresses the manipulation of bodies in contemporary culture, with a social practice that extends beyond formal exhibition to the homes,workplaces, and public spaces of participants as necessary. She uses new media as "a laboratory of resistance."
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Her work includes Cloud of Whiteness (2017), an installation and performance piece presented at SPACES Gallery in Cleveland as part of the exhibit The First 100+ Days, comprised of Ohio-based artists' responses to the initial phase of Donald Trump's presidential term; The Longest Walk, which creates temporary installations as a form of public monument honoring women who have led resistance groups throughout history, and was developed during the 2016 Republican Convention in Cleveland; and Scores for Distributed Dancing, a public game of algorithmic dance play.
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Young came to NCCAkron in August 2018 as part of a Dancing Lab Residency exploring embodiment and archival practice with RAWdance (San Francisco), Jonah Bokaer (Hudson, NY), and Holly Bass (Washington, DC).