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11 Facts About Genevieve Belleveau

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Genevieve Belleveau was born on 1984 and is an American performance artist and singer based in New York City and Los Angeles.

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Genevieve Belleveau confronts within her work issues of human connection, technology and religious ritual.

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Genevieve Belleveau was a driver of a Mister Softee ice cream truck and has managed operations for the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck.

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Genevieve Belleveau was born in Bemidji but grew up in the village of Puposky, Minnesota.

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Genevieve Belleveau attended Bennington College and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Performance art in 2007.

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Genevieve Belleveau moved to New York City in 2008 and secured a job driving a Mister Softee Ice Cream truck from which she created performance art, music, and photography.

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Genevieve Belleveau's work was scouted by Lilith Performance Studio in Malmo, Sweden who invited her to produce a series of performances in an exact replica of her Greenpoint backyard apartment.

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Genevieve Belleveau went on to create similar services in Rotterdam, Netherlands and New York City.

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Genevieve Belleveau collaborated with artist and VH1 reality star Ann Hirsch in creating a web-based performance that would mimic the style of a reality television show.

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Genevieve Belleveau had a corresponding performance in which hypothetical scenarios are given and you must use the limited emojis to communicate your feelings, this was used in the context of explaining how autism works.

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Genevieve Belleveau cut her hair in a monk tonsure to promote the project, and traveled from New Orleans to Los Angeles in the motorhome, examining the intersection of technology, attention and solitude.