In her performance-based video works, Kate Gilmore, dressed in cardigans and lipstick, struggles to complete a variety of difficult and nonsensical physical challenges: freeing her own foot from a bucket of hardened plaster; kicking her way through a wall wearing a pair of high heeled shoes; squeezing herself through a narrow passageway.
In dialogue with the history of time-based and feminist performance art, Gilmore's carefully composed scenarios allow for moments of humor, desperation and physicality. Selected for inclusion in the upcoming 2010 Whitney Biennial, Gilmore's work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, White Columns, The Kitchen, PS 1 and many more.
When: March 30, 2010, 12:30pm
Where: Riley Seminar Room, MFA
Image: Kate Gilmore, Between a Hard Place, 2008. Video still. Courtesy of the artist.
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