Performance
Expanded Cinema · Theater · Music/Dance
I had an unique experience of being photographed for medical research as a child. The discovery of these images at an early age introduced me to media’s power to act in lieu of a human body. The camera had transformed me into an unfamiliar media body which could travel and perform in places unseen. Reversing the logic I believe the found and crafted media bodies I now stage give a truly corporeal performance. While my collaborative theater/dance/music projects provide a spectacular canvas to develop inquiries into media-as-performer and virtual/transformative window; my expanded cinema work looks more critically at representation, bodily exploitation, structures of power, models of management/resilience, and gets as close as possible to the high-wire act of being human. — Kristin Reeves
Kristin Reeves’ media performances include multi-projector expanded cinema performed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The MAC at The Green Zone, Dallas; and international festivals such as Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque. She has collaborated on over 20 multimedia theater, dance, and music performances staged in venues such as Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago; Pierogi Gallery’s The Boiler, Brooklyn; The Granoff Center, Providence; The Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Chicago; The Prop Theater, Chicago; Chopin Theater, Chicago; 16th Street Theater, Berwyn.
Selected Performances: Solo and Collaborative
Regarding collaborations, I solely direct, produce, and integrate all the video/film works into the exhibitions.
2018
Solo program, Cinema Expanded Hopkins Hall Gallery, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, internationally adjudicated, Winnipeg, Canada
Experiments in Cinema, internationally adjudicated, Albuquerque, NM
2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival, invited, San Diego, CA
Dallas Medianale, invited, The MAC at The Green Zone, Dallas, TX
Solo program, Ear & Eye Clinic, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2015
Stations Lost, invited, presented by David Winton Bell Gallery, Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, RI (in collaboration with Ann Filmer, Tony Fitzpatrick, Stan Klein, John Rice)
Solo Program, Antimatter Media Art Festival, Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC, Canada
2014
The Midnight City, invited, Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, IL (in collaboration with Ann Filmer,
Tony Fitzpatrick, Stan Klein, John Rice)
2013
Outside the Screen, invited, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, internationally adjudicated, Milwaukee, WI (Best Performance)
Jurors screening, invited, Haverhill Experimental Film/Video Festival, Haverhill, MA
Experimental Film Festival Portland, internationally adjudicated, Portland, OR
2012
Mono No VI, international expanded cinema exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Nickel History, theater collaboration, Steppenwolf Garage Theater, Chicago, IL
2011
Stations Lost, theater collaboration, Steppenwolf Garage Theater, Chicago, IL
Stations Lost, theater collaboration, The Pierogi Boiler Room, Brooklyn, NY
Naked July Festival, live music/video collaboration, National Pastime Theater, Chicago, IL
2010
This Train, theater collaboration, Steppenwolf Garage Theater, Chicago, IL
Imagined Landscape, live dance/music/video collaboration, The Prop Theater, Chicago, IL
2009
Fires In The Mirror, theater design, 16th Street Theater, Berwyn, IL
Dreamland Station, live dance/music/video collaboration, The Prop Theater, Chicago, IL
Ghost Cycles, live dance/music/video collaboration, Ruth Page Center, Chicago, IL
2008
The Scarlet Ibis, theater collaboration, 16th Street Theater, Berwyn, IL
Uvulittle Records Showcase, live music/video collaboration, The Frequency, Madison, WI
2007
Karaoke for Prosperity: Video Haiku, video performance, solo, 16th Street Theater, Berwyn, IL
Estrogen Fest, live music/video collaboration, The Prop Theater, Chicago, IL
CBDC Benefit, live music/video collaboration, Belle Plaine Studio, Chicago, IL
The Underground Returns, live music/video collaboration, Burkhart Underground, Chicago, IL
2006
Flotilla, live music/video collaboration, Peter Jones Gallery, Chicago, IL
Egg or Ex-egg, live music/video collaboration, The Prop Theater, Chicago, IL
2005
Patty Red Pants, theater collaboration, The Chopin Theater, Chicago, IL
The Flabby Hoffman Show, live music/video collaboration, Underground Lounge, Chicago, IL