Collective Genus: Projection Show
The Dark, Too, Blooms and Sings (2020): In dialogue with Joshua L.I. Gentzke’s chapter, "Viral Visions and Dark Dreams: Ecological Enmeshment in the Age of COVID-19", published Pandemic, Ecology, and Theology: Perspectives on COVID-19 on Routledge Press, Kathryn produced a short interpretative film, which takes a line from the poet Wendell Berry as it title. "The Dark too Blooms and Sings" was projected large-scale onto various locations throughout San Francisco over Labor Day Weekend, September 4th-7th, 2020, alongside work from other members of Collective Genus.
The goal of this city-wide exhibition, given the context of the global pandemic, was to realize the safety and accessibility of an online exhibition, while maintaining the elements of space and place of a more traditional in-person format. For more information on Collective Genus and the exhibition, please click here.
Concerts for No One (& Everyone.)
2020 is forcing us all to continuously rethink and reimagine how to care for the ecology of relationships that weave together the texture of our lives. And the dynamics between audience and artist are very much included in this. As the eerie stillness fell over the normally frantic pace of late-capitalist America, we hit the road to seek out places far removed from the arenas of contemporary cultural production. From the West Coast, to rural Appalachia, to the postindustrial East, live from the deep woods to the ruins of abandoned grain silos, we performed a series of concerts without human audiences - a ritual of reflection on our relationship to both the creative act and the hidden ecologies it is essentially bound up with.
An Intimate Evening with Six Organs of Admittance, Donovan Quinn, and Lux Interna
November 2019 saw our first foray into the wonderful world of DIY concert organizing with Six Organs of Admittance, Donovan Quinn, and our own Lux Interna! A wonderful night with two of our favorite artists and a small audience of wonderful people gathered under the Redwoods of Kings Mountain in Woodside, CA.
SF MOMA
Jacob, Body Seer (2018) by Kathryn Ian and Joshua Levi Ian; digital video, color, sound, 8 minutes; presented by San Francisco Cinematheque and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on June 8, 2018.
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Mercy Entered his Body as Night: A Three Part Narrative in Film & Music (2018) by Lux Interna; digital video, color, sound, 20 minutes + live musical performance; presented by San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art as an ICA Live! event on March 2, 2018.
Voice, visuals, chordharp, hand percussion: Kathryn Ian
Voice, text, guitar, tambourine: Joshua Levi Ian
Drum kit, hand percussion: Adam Collins-Torruella
Bass, Synth: Tim Gotch
Toto Concept 190
We Praised Shadows Then (2017) by Joshua Levi Ian and Kathryn Ian; digital video, black and white, 16 minutes + live musical performance; presented by Toto Concept 190 Experiential Showroom.
Visuals: Kathryn Ian
Voice, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, loops: Joshua Levi Ian