I make video works, sculptures, and publications. Recording, copying, editing, reading, talking, listening, drawing, fictioning, animating, woodworking, printmaking, and organizing are some of the world-making activities I call upon.
I am driven by a curiosity about how technological tools translate the world into images, but I am wary of an over-reliance on visual truth. Stones repeatedly crop up in my work—not always invited—whether they be folkloric hagstones or near-Earth asteroids like Bennu. I find it disorienting how the earthly and cosmic are shrunk down into museum cabinets and digital files on our screens. By considering these acts of delimitation, I search for ways to occupy this disorientation, trouble binary thinking, embrace slippages, become tangled with the non-human world, and push at the limits of inherited knowledge systems.
Consequently, my work touches on the broader themes of time, space, narrative, and spectatorship. My processes are multiple, responding to the deconstructive, feminist, queer, and multispecies conceptual framework that guides my artistic inquiry.
kat newman 