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Artist Curated Screening with Kate Stone
Live Event
June 7, 2024, 7:00 – 9:00pm




Kate Stone works within a range of media, including sculpture, installation and animation to explore her interest in the potential of quotidian architectural structures to reveal the “uncanny”  within. She writes,  “Drawing inspiration from myths, conspiracy theories, quantum physics, anatomy and horror tropes, I construct liminal worlds that exist somewhere between interior and exterior, between reality and superstition, between architecture and the body. They are psychological spaces that are often in the midst of transformation, being overtaken by natural, supernatural or invisible forces. These forces serve as stand-ins for the anxiety that current world events bring into our personal lives and private spaces.”  


Stone received a BA from Bard College and an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. She has been awarded the Tierney Fellowship, The Lotos Foundation Prize, an FST StudioProjects Grant and a Kone Foundation Grant. She has attended residencies at NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance LES Studio Program, Kone Foundation, MASS MoCA and Mudhouse Residency in rural Greece. Her work has been exhibited at 601Artspace, bitforms gallery, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, Dinner Gallery, FiveMyles, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Rubber Factory, Spring Break Art Show, South Bend Museum of Art, The Museum of Broken Relationships and Transmitter Gallery, among others.




Image courtesy of the artist. Strange Loops, Animation 2022.





Not Yet
Single Channel Video Festival
March 1 - 2, 2024




Not Yet

A time uncertain
The situation is unfolding

(In, re,) actions influence the possibilities; fear, disinterest, or
exhaustion affects the shape of a storm in the making.

What are the forces pushing, pulling, twisting
a child
the uprooted or never home
an idea

This earth





Participating Artists: Lisa Blackburn - USA, Brit Bunkley - New Zealand, Wey Yinn Teo - Malaysia, Amanda VanValkenburg - USA,
Chenmo Wu - China, Dowon Yoo - Korea




Images courtesy of the artist: Lisa Blackburn - still from Here and There, Brit Bunkley - still from Natural Intelligence, Wey Yinn Teo - still from Enflightenment, Amanda VanValkenburg - still from Expansion, Chenmo Wu - still from The Lost Conversation, Dowon Yoo - still from Dongwon Kim’s Gesture








You’ve Been Had! 
Single Channel Video Festival
March 10-11, 2023





Even fools like me
Even fools like me
I said you're running out of fools
Even old fools like me

the jig is up

Polonius: O, I am slain!


Babe, we’ve all been there. DEFEAT.

O how you held on. Iron on the tongue - whose blood? - every ragged fingernail, every festered wound cauterized, every sweet asshole clenched. But it’s oooovveerrrr nooowwww. The water rises; the curtain falls. The planet, your lover, the cat, roll to their side and lick themselves, leaving you to shelter on the edge of the bed. So what? Now what?

It’s the old poetry of scoundrels, cads and rogues. Ancient, moody songs that make betrayal sound as normal as fried eggs. Somehow we know the lyrics, but only as they fall out of our mouths.

I wish I could, but my car broke down, and I missed the bus, then the taxman came, and my baby left me, right after the cops pulled me over (before the car broke). The war washed it all anyway.

We regret to inform you.
Thank you for your time.
We had an incredible volume.
Your mother/father and I.
After careful consideration.
Thank you.
ASAP.





Participating Artists: Saïd Afifi - France/ Morocco, Dee Hood - USA, Zerek Kempf - USA,  Shori Sims - USA, Kate Stone - USA, Ryan Muchen Wang - USA, Rebecca Weisman - USA



Images courtesy of the artist: Dee Hood - still from Realigning the Forward Back, Kate Stone - still from Insides, Rebecca Weisman - still from Tap Lessons, Ryan Muchen Wang - still from Can’t Let Go, Saïd Afifi - still from Etymology, Shori Sims - still from Two Story Home, Zerek Kempf - still from This Is How You Start the Clock








Broken Compass
Single Channel Video Festival
March 4-6, 2022



broken compass – land ho

We are thinking about visibility, vantage points and our mutualistic relationships to place: seeing and being seen within and through the reverberations of shifting worlds. Pressed against the earth, what’s under your nose? Breathe it in. Draw from memory one end to the next.

Is to be unknowable, to be free?
What would the notion of discovery look like freed from its extractive, violent history?

Where could nomadic movement guided by difference, ambiguity, and detours lead us?
Can we imagine and be in relation with what we can’t fix by name?

We are thinking about land.


Participating Artists: Heidi E Cooper-Bassam – USA, Katerie Gladdys – USA, Janice Howard – UK, Ahmed  Ozsever – USA, Serena Perrone – Italy/USA, 
Duane Peterson lll – USA, Sam Sloan Wiechert – USA



Images courtesy of the artist: Ahmed Ozsever - still from Reading the (Rock) Record, Duane Peterson III - still from Recreation, Heidi E Cooper-Bassam - still from âbi, Janice Howard - still from A Flying Centre of Gravity, Katerie Gladdys - still from Cranefly, Sam Sloan Wiechert - still from Parasympathetic, Serena Perrone - still from Sideroads




Lift 

A performance in 3 acts by Kate Donnelly


April, 2022, Danville, Vermont
May, 2022, Burlington, Vermont

September, 2022, Shelburne, Vermont





About the performance:

The first installment of work begun before the Pandemic, Kate Donnelly’s performance introduces an archive of unruly grief and her attendant: desire. It tracks the artist’s own movements, along with those of her sister and mother, within sites made transcendent by grief: an old farmhouse, a garden, family. It foregrounds efforts of futility: bodies orbit annoyance and longing against backgrounds transforming at their own slow and steady pace.


Generous support provided by Vermont Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, and Snakehouse VT.
 

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