On Collaboration with Glenn Kaino
The Future Is Intersectional: An Artivist Series
What’s the real value of collaboration and giving generously in times of scarcity and division?
In this intimate BTS interview, artist Glenn Kaino discusses the beauty of finding strength in numbers, using art to bring people together, and creating collaborative projects that expresses the power of merging diverse perspectives.
This interview is part of IE’s newest video interview series ‘The Future is Intersectional: An Artivist Series’ - a program spotlighting your favorite artists in every region across the country to help you unlock transformative lessons + learnings for radically imagining an inclusive future for people + planet.
How can collaboration help you envision thriving futures for people + planet? Tell us in the comments!
About the Artist
Glenn Kaino was born in 1972 in Los Angeles. Kaino’s works, often functioning as poetic contradictions, aim to reconcile conflicting ideologies, opposing systems, and strict dichotomies in material and experiential ways.
Conceiving his practice as conceptual kit-bashing, akin to a model maker’s way of appropriating readymade kits to assemble unique models, Kaino reconfigures the conditions of distinct cultural spheres into ecologies of making in which seemingly disparate materials and ideas are brought into contact.
His studio practice includes sculpture, painting, filmmaking, performance, installation, and large-scale public work. He also operates outside the traditional purview of contemporary art, instigating collaborations with other modes of culture—ranging from tech to music to political organizing.
Kaino is also an Emmy and Webby Award-winning producer and documentarian, whose films have been featured at the Tribeca Film Festival and SXSW.
How to support the series
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