Location: Muncie, IN
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Kristin Reeves
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- Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] Performance Detail
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- Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] Performance Detail
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- Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] Performance Detail
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- Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] Installation Detail
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- Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] Installation Detail
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- Je Ne Sais Plus [What Is This Feeling] 9-Film Detail
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- Je Ne Sais Plus #1 Archival Inkjet Print 43" X 32"
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- Mechanoreceptors 1-3 Archival Inkjet Print
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- Excitable Cells [Excited] II Dimensions (HxWxD): 8.25" X 15.5" X 6" inches Media: x-ray light box, electrical cord, archival inkjet print on film Medical experts are charged with unpacking the mysteries within bodies. They ask optical machines and their resulting media to answer what it is to be human and where it hurts. I ask the same questions as an artist. I also believe in the power of media to uncover truth and to perform as a virtual self.
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- Excitable Cells [Excited] II Print Detail
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- Songs About Me Interactive Installation Dimensions (HxWxD): 58X58X32 inches Media: x-ray light boxes, record player, headphones, records, film projector, archival inkjet print on film A mysterious gene mutation impaired my metabolism of phosphorus resulting in physiological abnormalities. I was often used for pediatric research during the extensive medical investigation, taking my body in other distorted directions. Both my clinical and genetic matrix motivates me to seek an understanding of how we have come to know ourselves through the clinic’s gaze.
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- Songs About Me Detail
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- The White Coat Phenomenon Video Still
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- The White Coat Phenomenon Video Still
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- [What Is This Feeling] #1 Archival Inkjet Print I started digging through medical archives to see if I would find myself. Now by dissecting media cadavers, I diagnose their effects and uncover moments that feel like my own. I’m taken by the memory of their use made visible by the marks left on their bodies.
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- Cadere II Archival Inkjet Print
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- Cadere I Archival Inkjet Print
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- Blue Dr. Archival Inkjet Print
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- Red Dr. Archival Inkjet Print
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- [What Is This Feeling] #2 Archival Inkjet Print
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- [What Is This Feeling] #3 Archival Inkjet Print
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- [What Is This Feeling] #4 Archival Inkjet Print
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- [What Is This Feeling] #5 Archival Inkjet Print
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- THREADBARE Film Still
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- THREADBARE Film Still
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An obstacle course between the heart and the doctor's office leads to [DESTINY.] Playing her tower of projectors to the timing of a prerecorded soundtrack that pivots around international versions of "You Don't Own Me," Kristin Reeves meditates on the materiality of the body and the struggle to achieve personal sovereignty within its bounds. Built on 27, 10-second 16mm film loops constructed from optically printed found footage and direct laser-animation techniques.
"Je Ne Sais Plus" is Lesley Gore's French version of "You Don't Own Me." The translation of je ne sais plus is I don't know what I once new, or I don't know anymore. What is this feeling?”]
- "Mechanoreceptors 1-3" installation excerpt
Identity transforms into material, as optical diagnostic machines become the body's voice. Sections of each of the film's frames have been cut out and transplanted into the other film's frames using a laser cutter and splicing tape.
A digital composite of the three 10-second 16mm film loops, which run continuously as a 3-projector installation.
- The White Coat Phenomenon
Found VHS and vinyl LP, 00:02:50
Finding sex in an unexpected location requires some examination.The body holds secrets confessed in examination rooms through expert techniques. Truth-telling clinical media has the authority to objectively answer what is found within physical bodies and processes. The White Coat Phenomenon uses found material from a distressed VHS training series on how to give examinations and the first ten questions of The Sexual I.Q. Test to analyze our understanding of sexuality and clinical subjectivity.
- THREADBARE
16mm Film, Color, Sound
A fever-dream processes childhood memories of medical exploitation. Back and forth flash the clinical gaze, which holds tight to the profitable conjuring that vulnerable bodies make possible. Patients unravel into material to support a billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry driven by commercial interests and the fear of our fragile physiology.
ACRE Show