A New York State Notary commissioned by the Department of State, I specialize in Public Notarizations, Oaths, Affirmations and Acknowledgments.
Up to Date BLOG Yesiree The Public Notary
With an examination of authority, questioning our need for it and the foundation of insecurity and trust from personal and subsequent legal implications. Just as one may need outside advise on minor personal details; a new pair of shoes, what to cook for dinner.. under the law we need an official witness to be believed and it turns out, to believe another. What stops us from believing ourself? and why we cannot believe another lone entity, is it against the set up of our culture to trust oneself and another? The State sanctioned witness to this signature is the Notary Public, sometimes found at a bank, or just as often, at a corner candy store.
Yesiree aims to invert this implication of deep mistrust, from both inside and state side levels, assisting citizens to take back the power of the affirmation and personal accountability first with ones self. The notary acts as a medium in which an individual may use them to create a covenant with one’s self.
Scroll down for a video of Yesiree in action at Zuccotti Park.
The list of performances are growing, please visit the blog for documentation and updates.
Press:
- National Notary Association: Magazine edition. Jan 2012, Ethical Practices Amongst Notaries and the Financial Crisis. Dave Thun.
Arts Practical 3.4 Of Friction, Of Location, Of Context: Nov 2011, Web: Aesthetic Events in Occupation: Authorizing Ideals. Elyse Mallouk.- Lo Donna, Saturday supplement to Corriere della Sera: Nov 2011, Italian Daily. Women at Occupy Wall Street, Notary, Nicola Scevola.
- Woodstock Times: Oct 27, 2011, Hope is in the Air. Violet Snow.
The New York Times, City Room: Oct 2011, WEB: Wall Street Protest moves to Washington Square Park.- These Gentlemen Art, Politics, Life Blog: Oct 2011, Interview Yesiree the Public Notary at Occupy Wall Street.
- Upcoming: New York Arts OWS Segment. TBA
Notarization Performances and Exhibitions:
- Yesiree the Public Notary, Legal Manifestations in online exhibition; The Eagle, Bull, and Bear on Little Paper Planes. Opening Nov 30, 2011
- Legal Manifestations, at Zuccotti Square, Occupy Wall Street. Oct/Nov 2011
- Free Tea & Doing Business As. Panopoly Performance Laboratory. Summer 2011
- The Lonely Notary. Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for The Arts. Nebraska City, NE. Spring 2011
- March Fourth, I do Declare. Scope Fare, March 2011
- Witness to the Belonging, a Tutorial in Radical Citizenship. Anhoek School, Hunter College Winter 2011, Governor’s Island, Summer 2010.
- The Lottery of Good Oaths. Art in Odd Places / Union Square. Fall 2010
- Good For The Day. Marian Spore, Brooklyn. Fall 2011
- Oaths and Affirmations. MLAB & Stephan Stoyanov Gallery Gallery, L.E.S. NYC Fall 2011
- The Clean Water Act (w/ Suzanne Thorpe). Delaware River, Narrowsberg, PA, NY.
- Beta Oaths. La Superette, Winter 2009/10
