KRISTEN ANDES
Searching for Meat: Pt. 1
We’re All Moving to Vegas
Carol/Queering Death
Hidden Spaces
Cultivating Queer Spaces
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tool for relationships and environment, my experiences with femininity and identity relative to childhood, and notions of queering death. Questions I am considering include:
Why do I equate aggression to independence and how does that relate to my
experience of womanhood (or a shared experience of perceived female violence)?
How can I utilize print to create a space to hold queer intimacy and conversation?
What rituals do we have around death and queer people? Do these rituals relate and/or
connect?
My work is rooted in intimate reflection: both in recalling memories and in the creation of
new ones. Interactive and performative printmaking is the primary way I articulate these (re)imagined experiences, through imagery and text. I play with impression, materiality, and display to create tangibility and a sense of closeness; to guide viewers to interact when able.
Just as prints rely on a matrix, I rely on close relationships with people and shared spaces to serve as a matrix for my research. I aim to expand print into performance and dialogue: To create participatory work that creates (or takes up) space, and that upholds confrontation with questions.