Christine Gaffney and C. Bain

Menstrual Weatherbot, 8:33 min.

Menstrual Weatherbot tells the story of the artists as they exchange privacy and bodily autonomy for the promise of safety and cure in their respective ways.

Christine Gaffney is an interdisciplinary sculptor from Dayton, Ohio. She holds and MFA in Art and Technology from California Institute of the Arts. She has also studied art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio. She has a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Her practice embraces ideas around body image, body politics, and feminism.

C. Bain is a gender liminal writer, performer, and artist. His work is about interstices of sex and violence — the body subjected to the extraction of knowledge. He has a mental health focused social work degree from Hunter and an art MFA from CalArts. He’s a 2023-24 Fulbright scholar in Leipzig, researching the end of the world.