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kristen spillane bio & artist's statement |
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Kristen Spillane received her B.A. from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in January 2004 with a concentration in Digital Media and Performance Studies and a minor in French. She has worked in Los Angeles and NYC in many areas of the entertainment industry from casting to post-production, and as an actor with the British-American theater company, Theater M, and is now moving on to different endeavors. She freelanced as a producer / editor / assistant editor / videographer ... in the Los Angeles area, after having spent a few months working in the 3D department at Motion Theory in Venice, CA. She has appeared in several of Lydia Grey’s performance art pieces including Steering By Starlight at The Muddy Cup, and The Traveler Performances: Ready for Return for the Jersey City Artists Studio Tour. She also played the role of Duckling Smith in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s “Our Country’s Good” at The Culture Project, 45 Below with Julia Carey’s Theater M in NYC. Kristen documents, edits and compiles the performance work of artist Jim Jeffers, and her edits of his performances have screened in galleries across the country including Nofufi Gallery in Encinitas, CA; Korn Gallery in Madison, NJ; and most recently Contemporary Artists Center in North Adams, MA. Kristen has curated art shows in NYC and Newark, NJ, and completed a series of short documentaries on contemporary performance artists. |
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Artist's Statement... A great friend once said to me. “In the end what do we take with us? A look, an offhand comment that made your day, a thank you, a smile. These are the things that matter, not the size house you lived in or the labels you could afford.” It’s the little things that count – the individuals that are the most interesting. This is how I have always understood the world. As a child I did science experiments at home, in high school I spent my time in the lab trying to figure out how the world worked, and from middle school through college I worked as an actor observing the details of relationships and daily routine. I like watching people – the way they move and interact with others, the way they hold themselves when they drink their morning cup of coffee. I like seeing how light reflects off bubbles, I like the way water moves over sand. In a world driven by cell phones and instant messaging where all the information you could ever need or want is available on google it is all too easy to overlook the details of the real world. I have found respite in documenting these little things, because it helps me see them better, because it makes me stop and examine them, because it somehow makes them more real and gives proof of their existence. In documenting these things they cease to be little things at all, instead they become things of great intrigue that provide fuel for thought and conversation. I like this. I like showing other people the details and the magic of the individuals, of the locations, of the situations, of the happenings, because these things don’t need manipulating, only telling. I like telling these stories because they help me understand. |
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