backstory

the inaugural pink: a (love) courier service was a month-long, site-specific, community-engaged, interactive performance event in austin, texas, commissioned by first night austin and underwritten by the still water foundation. pink was operated out of an empty storefront in the commercial district just west of the downtown and run by a collective of cyclists, visual artists, performing artists, activists, and poets. for the month leading up to new year's eve 2006-7, the storefront space was converted into a love factory, and people throughout austin, as well as local passersby, visited pink to write and send pink love notes to friends, lovers, co-workers, and strangers. The love notes were scrolled and bottled, marked with hand-stitched monogrammed tags, and hand-delivered by bicycle courier to the homes and businesses of the recipients. two-thousand and seven (2007) bottles were sent and received in the month of december, and the event culminated in a community parade and bicycle carnival in downtown austin, as part of first night austin 2007.

mission

the mission of pink is to engage the local community in art-making while modeling and spreading a positive message of love and hope to the city. pink benefits the city by providing a free service through which community members can express their love and appreciation for one another. it also provides local artists, cyclists, youth, activists, and art enthusiasts the opportunity to volunteer and participate in the creation and implementation of a large-scale, community-based, and interdisciplinary art project, as pink requires the love and sweat and hundreds of volunteers to work and grow.

pink: we (deliver) love (for) you. (pass it on.)

jaclyn pryor (director/performer/choreographer/conceptual artist)

jaclyn is an interdisciplinary artist based in austin, texas. her most recent project, pink: a (love) courier service, was commissioned by first night austin 2007 (underwritten by the still water foundation) and has been nominated as best independent project of the year by the austin critics table 2006-2007. in 2006, pryor created BREAD, also commissioned by first night austin, winner of the first night international creative programming award. other current projects include floodlines (2004-2010), a multi-year and multi-site-specific performance installation about history, memory and loss, and recipient of the w.h. deacon crane award for outstanding new work by the austin critics table 2005-2006.

upcoming projects include correspondence+fear, a collaboration with hungarian visual artist katalin kausel and canadian musician leanne zacharias, to be presented at the creative research lab in austin, texas in 2007 and in stuttgart, germany in 2008, where kausel is in residence with the schloss solitude foundation. the illinois project, conceived and directed with close collaborator julia m. smith, will be presented by refraction arts project in austin in 2007, where she and smith are both company members.

jaclyn received her b.a. summa cum laude from washington university in st. louis, where she studied theatre and literature, and her masters in performance as public practice from the university of texas-austin, where she is currently a candidate for a phd.