STATEMENT / BIO
KS Brewer is a transdisciplinary artist-researcher and Ph.D. student of Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, exploring the normative imperative to preserve and extend life in medical and ecological contexts, and alternatives made possible from queer and abject standpoints of death and decay. CPR manikins, flesh flies, and vibrant corpses animate their theoretical and creative concerns. Through experiential art, multiple senses, mediums, and technologies are incorporated together in search of affectively difficult encounters between human and/or inhuman beings. Results may resemble historic technologies, moldering reliquaries, living organisms, toxic fumes, ASMR soundtracks, traumatic flashbacks, surveillance footage, ghosts, monsters, pests, or some combination thereof.
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KS holds a BA in filmmaking from NYU, and uses their training in time-based technologies and experience as a professional fabricator to inform their practice. Recent shows include Co-Prosperity Gallery of the Public Media Institute (Chicago, IL), the IOTA Institute at the University of Windsor (Windsor, Canada), the Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science (Cholula, Mexico), and Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio (Buffalo, NY). Their work has been published in Forbes, Ravelin, and Hyperallergic, and their writing is published in Strange Matters Magazine and World Futures Review (forthcoming).
