contactprojectjournal:
CONTACT is honored to present CONTACTinRESIDENCE and April’s Artist-in-Residence, Mollie McKinley, with two recent series, PRIESTESS and DARK SPECTRUM.
About CONTACTinRESIDENCE
Each month one artist will be selected by the CONTACT staff and featured on the CONTACT Journal as an Artist-in-Residence in our virtual space. Making use of the digital platform, this artist will use the CONTACT lens to meditate on their own creative practice.
IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST
A selection of works from two recent series. PRIESTESS is an ongoing series of site-specific installations and video performances. The videos present abstracted rituals, wherein mundane objects—such as balloons, ropes, life vests, and fishing nets—aid in the ceremonial dissolution of boundary between ego and nature. I love playing with contemporary sound to contextualize the timelessness and absurdity of these rituals. Pop music, ranging from Peggy Lee to Kelly Rowland, is manipulated, distorted, and turned into hypnotic mantra, becoming a surreal totem of ceremonial time in Sun Threshold/Fire Magic. The deeply textural sounds of water, mud, overhead planes, and distant ATV’s in Existential Marina provide a similar aural totem.
DARK SPECTRUM is comprised of large-format color photographs revealing rituals, symmetries, and hidden places. The sacred residues within an otherwise profane, secret, or forgotten place. Mischief, longing, and discovery mark the moment of arrival at these mysterious places.
For CONTACT PROJECT, selections from these two series are presented together, revealing the rhythm and common language that they share.
