Kristin Reeves

Scrat découvre une machine à remonter le temps et s'en sert pour notre plus grand plaisir.

CPS Closings & Delays takes as its subject the controversial decision by the Chicago Board of Education, under the auspices of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, to close 50 public schools in 2013. Kristin Reeves shot all 50 schools with a 16mm camera a year later then distressed the footage of the buildings in post-production using laser animation and bleach.

Using found educational films, direct laser animation and nine-projectors, I attempt to realize the multifaceted materiality of nothingness through the eyes of those who may be most vulnerable to the void.

A fever-dream processes childhood memories of medical exploitation.

When intimacy couples with dysfunction; feel the sensation of becoming suspended between pleasure and a reverse soundtrack of desire. Produced through a media art residency at Signal Culture using real-time analog video processing tools and found media. Sexual dysfunction and disruptions to pleasure are common symptoms of trauma. High and low-level therapies can include music and body work. I converted the filmic body into a controlling signal, which was then applied back onto itself. The process a model of trauma; the material sources, point to the need for therapy; clinical and pop.