19.Jun.2010 My MFA Thesis Paper: “building: A Critical Spatial Practice”
building: a critical spatial practice
building was a site-attuned participatory art installation and artists’ collective convened in association
with completion of the DANM MFA program by Kyle McKinley and Nick Lally. In producing an installation space that
replaces traditional, individuated norms of production in the visual arts with a de-centered dialogic
model, building offered McKinley and other artists and [...]
27.May.2010 transcience 4
transcience4 from kyle mckinley on Vimeo.
In Transcience I explore how particular gestures produce space differently by traversing Santa Cruz’s San Lorenzo river levee bike path on top of objects that I pick up and set in front of me. Each step forward requires reaching backward to retrieve the object behind me (a suitcase, a stack [...]
09.May.2010 bicilogues: the podcast
Bicilogues Podcast
Click the above links to listen to Bicilogues. The little RSS icon should let you download as an mp3. Bicilogues is part of my MFA Thesis work building, an art collective and installation started in January 2010 by Nick Lally and myself. As installed in building, participants cooperate to pedal stationary bikes in [...]
11.Apr.2010 “What is “Electrocommunism and What is it Good For”
Below is a paper I presented yesterday at “Beneath The University, The Commons” conference in Minneapolis, Mn. A tremendous number of great ideas arose out of the conversations held there, of which the two most important are a parallelism of movements (which I hope to elaborate on soon) and the idea of a debt commune [...]
03.Apr.2010 Francis Allÿs and the Loss of the Object
I Lose Myself in Bicilogues, I Lose Myself in Mexico City:
Bicilogues in Dialogue with the works of Francis Alÿs
The carefully measured stroll of the museum goer betrays a gestural excess that has been over-determined by the very architecture of the museum itself. Fairly well trained in the contemplative and reverential composure that the viewer should [...]
09.Mar.2010 march 4th
The movement to fight privatization of education hit a high water mark on 3/4/2010 with UCSC shut down completely and major rallys, protests and occupations across the state and the world. Read about it best here: http://occupyca.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/march-4/ .
08.Mar.2010 toast
toast from kyle mckinley on Vimeo.
03.Mar.2010 spatial practice
transience from kyle mckinley on Vimeo.
12.Jan.2010 social cost tracker research survey
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