Virtual Studio Visit: Kirsten Leenaars
Announcement
This is a virtual event on Instagram Live. To join, tune into the MCA's Instagram page, at noon CST.
Visit the official Instagram for [The
Broadcast](https://www.instagram.com/kirstenleenaars_thebroadcast/) including all one-minute episodes prior to the conversation.
About
Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage criticality. Join Leenaars to as she discusses her artistic practice and the latest evolution in her video-based work The Broadcast in conversation with MCA Interim Senior Curator January Parkos Arnall.
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This virtual studio visit at the MCA is organized by Interim Senior Curator January Parkos Arnall with the Performance and Public Practice team.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kirsten Leenaars is an interdisciplinary video artist based in Chicago. Various forms of performance, theater, and documentary strategies make up the threads that run through her work. She engages with individuals and communities to create participatory video and performance work. Her work oscillates between fiction and documentation, reinterprets personal stories and reimagines everyday realities through shared authorship, staging and improvisation.
Leenaars examines how we relate to others and explores how new forms of relating can be created through the production of an artwork itself. Recent projects include The Broadcast
Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, at venues including the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; MAI, Montreal; the District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington DC; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Glass Curtain Gallery, Threewalls, Gallery 400, and 6018North, Chicago; Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Detroit; Printed Matter, Inc., New York; the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; and Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin. Leenaars has received multiple grants from the Any Warhol Foundation; The Mondrian Fund; cultural support grants from the Dutch Consulate in New York, Milwaukee Art Board Production Grant and Fonds BKVB. She currently is an associate professor in the Department of Contemporary Practices and the performance department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.