Collaborators: Tiny Circus (Jenn Stratton, Carlos Ferguson, Johanna Kasimow), Sam Hoolihan, Christopher Kennedy, Lucia Carroll
The History of Dust is a short animation created by our friends Tiny Circus from Grinnell, Iowa. While here they produced the animation and experimented with several of our dolls and toys in order to create characters for a proposed series of animations.
Chris Kennedy is a teaching artist and curator living in Greensboro, NC. He makes place-based projects that experiment with social learning, queer identity, and civic play. His process is research-based and collaborative. He is currently working through education and the rise of academic capitalism by playing inside a living museum Elsewhere, and pursuing a PhD at the University of North Carolina. At Elsewhere Kennedy directs CoLab a youth-led platform for media experiments and digital storytelling that speaks to peers. His previous projects include an intergenerational free school in an abandoned park in North Brooklyn (School of the Future), a movement research platform exploring fungi as metaphor for connectivity (StrataSpore), and an ongoing investigation into queer identity (Queer Explorer's Club).
Grinnell, IA
August 24, 2011 - September 20, 2011
blog | the tiny circus dot blogspot dot com
website | tiny circus dot org
Lucia Carroll, documentarian and curator, is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist most recently based out of Providence, RI. She was was born in Bogota, Colombia and grew up on four different continents. Lucia returned to the states to attend Smith College, where she received her BA in Studio Art. Her work explores the curation of self and our own narratives through physical and digital objects and strives to give those objects a voice. Using both photography and other forms of documentation she creates structure and systems to present them in frank means while also revealing the stories behind them. Her most recent work investigates how regional and national identity is integrated into our urban environments and how histories of place and space, both official and unofficial, can re-activate a neighborhood, town, or city through its inhabitants.