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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 of books, a block of wood with an image of my bare feet burned into it). In recording this exhausting exercise in absurdity it is not the physical space of the river levee that I am attempting to map; the bike path makes a tidy circle, crisscrossed by bridges. Rather, the social space of my particular movement through that space is demarcated. The privileges that I experience in that space (the privilege of transience, of certain skill-sets and certain knowledge-sets) are figured as a literalized metaphor in the form of walking on top of objects that represent those privileges. Such privileges appear, in Transcience, to increase my stature (by giving me something to stand on) and insulate me from the ground (as though in a child’s game of “hot-lava”), but they also slow down my progress, and appear at once awkwardly calcified and precarious.

transience from kyle mckinley on Vimeo.

Porter Walkabout from Kyle McKinley on Vimeo.

Preview – Experiments in the DARC from Miki Foster on Vimeo.

mutoscope from kyle mckinley on Vimeo.

Untitled from kyle mckinley on Vimeo.