about
crossbreed {the story}
Crossbreed is a collaboration of works
created by Jennifer Parker and Bret Parker. Bret and Jennifer first
met and became familiar with one another’s work at the 5th Annual
International Art Festival and Conference at the World Trade Center
in Osaka, Japan, in June 2000. They both immediately identified and
embraced the commonality and shared ideology of their work and decided
to try and collaborate on a project when they returned to the United
States.
Jennifer Parker is an assitant professor of art at the University of California
in Santa Cruz and Bret Parker is a performance artist and an animator
at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville. It is ironic that they met in
Japan in that they share the same last name and both live in the same
city in California.
Their first collaborative video
performance installation was entitled Without
Borders for a festival at the Military Museum in Seoul, Korea 2001.
Due to the success of this collaborative project theydecided to continue
and form an active collaborating partnership: CROSSBREED.
They have since gone on to produce several mixed media video installations,
performances and short films. These include: Translocate,
a short film that combines two walks, one in Osaka, Japan and one
in Joshua Tree, CA; Clem Snide, Your’re so Evil, NYC; Exit
to the Interior as part of the sixth annual activating the medium
sound art festival presented by 23fiveinc, SFMOMA, Cuesta College and
Mills; Street Royalty in collaboration
with Doran George at the 2003 Transgender Film Festival in Holland; and
most recently Linking
Equilibrium a video sculpture installation and performance at the
Triton Museum in Los Altos, CA. |