Residency #135
JUNE 29 – JULY 19
Application deadline: March 6, 2009

PROJECT RESIDENCY

CAROLE KIM , live video performance/installation

Carole Kim is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on live video performance and performance-based video installation.  Digital/new media technologies interface with the sensitivity of the improvisational live performer.  The installations explore the illusory architecture of layered video projection in space and real-time video performance. The use of live-feed cameras introduces the human form into this layered landscape, mediating the body while preserving the dynamic edge of the live performer. The performance/installations are multi-sensory immersive environments that often explore a de-centralized viewing space. Kim seeks a generative hybrid of disciplines that collapses boundaries and supports an integrated reciprocal exchange between sound, image, movement, space.

A particular love for live improvisational new music has fostered many sound/image collaborations with musician/composers including Nels Cline, GE Stinson, Jesse Gilbert, Mark Dresser, Vinny Golia, Hahn Rowe, Steve Roden, Joelle Leandre, Carla Bozulich, Alex Cline, and Scott Amendola. She has collaborated with the following dancer/choreographers: Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, Michael Sakamoto, Shuriu Lo, Jesske Hume, Liz Hoefner, Hassan Christopher, Christine Pichini and Maya Gingery.  A lineup of visual artists and filmmakers that have contributed to past projects including Astra Price, Maile Colbert, Mirabelle Ang, Rebecca Baron, Beth Bird, Eve Luckring, Adele Horne, Christine Marie, Bo Sul Kim, Ann Kaneko, Lisa Tchakmakian, Pablo Molina, and Alex Lorge.

She has exhibited and performed widely in the US and abroad. Recent venues include the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles, REDCAT/Disney Hall, the Getty Center, Springwave Festival/LIG Performing Arts Hall (Seoul, Korea), Trampoline: Platform for New Media Art (Nottingham, England), the Stanford Jazz Festival, Engine 27 (New York), Arizona State University-West Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance Program (Phoenix, AZ), the Knitting Factory (LA), ArtSonje Center (Seoul, Korea) plus numerous festivals and performance series.  Kim will be a featured artist in the August issue of Abitare/CHINA.  Eyebeam Atelier in New York commissioned a piece on the web and the performance/installation REVERSE HOUSE KIT was featured in the DVD publication ASPECT vol2: New Media Artists of the West Coast.

* For more information on Carole Kim please visit http://www.carolekim.com.

Residency Statement

I am interested in working together as a loose ensemble and/or in smaller satellite groupings to take advantage of the diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise of each artist.  Joined by an openness to collaborative experimentation and an interest in any of the following:

• Installation
• Video projection in space
• Architecture of the screen
• Site-specificity
• Immersive environments
• Soundscapes
• Live arts
• Improvisation
• Group interaction / Interactivity
• Participatory art

I wish to foster an interdisciplinary generative exchange.  We will need a core group of media (film/video) artists along with any number of other disciplines represented: music/sound art, dance, visual art, new media, spoken word, theater, or…? We will explore the interior and exterior spaces of the ACA. We will probably have to be night owls given all the skylights and windows in every space besides the black box theater. Whether we do a series of small experiments or whether it culminates into a larger scale production remains to be seen.  Mainly I wish to tap into the full collaborative potential of the group with an inclusive eye to the Associate Artists working with Heather Woodbury and Mark Applebaum.

Application Requirements

• work sample: up to 20 images and/or 10 minutes of video/sound of current work
• work sample description
• current CV
• one e-mail reference
• artist statement (1 page max)
• residency comments

* 1-3 written pages about the ideas you think you’d like to explore during the residency. These can be very open-ended and are apt to change.

* Please also briefly list the various specific talents, skills and technologies you have worked with and could contribute to the arsenal of knowledge of the group.