On view July 14 - July 31 * Reception Saturday July 17, 4-6pm
open during all events, or email info@rhizomedc.org to make an appointment
Krissy Talking Pictures presents Double Dare, a multimedia exhibition featuring seven members of the Krissy Talking pictures community. The show is on view from July 14th to 31st at Rhizome DC and online at www.rhizomedc.org/ktpand www.krissytalkingpictures.net/double-dare
Krissy Talking Pictures is a video art organization and alternative to art institutions based out of Philadelphia that uplifts the voices of queer artist while creating community around art making. The show, featuring Cherry Nin, France Rreally, Rat Porridge, Xhep, Alyssa Michener, Oona Taper, and Yellow 5 Yellow 6 brings together video, new media, installation, sculpture and works on paper.
Double Dare is a celebration of doubles, alternatives, and imagined utopic parallel worlds that may or may not intersect with our own. The show itself is doubled, existing both in the Rhizome galleries and online. By overlapping, the two iterations of the show work together to test the boundaries and porousness of physical and digital space.
Still from Question Everything Bitch by Cherry Nin and Rat Porridge
Krissy Talking Pictures is a collectively-run video art organization presenting work through pop-up installations, film screenings and online events. KTP believes in art as a means for survival, protest, expression and communication.
Founded by Cherry Nin in 2019, KTP became a collective with four members in May 2020. The collective has hosted video installation and performance art events in DIY venues throughout Philadelphia. Since the start of COVID-19, Cherry Nin, Rat Porridge, Oona Taper, and Florence Fire have continued to create space for video watching and sharing through the creation of a virtual gallery space and online hub, www.KrissyTalkingPictures.net, a project that was made possible with generous support from the Leeway Foundation’s Art & Change Grant. Currently they are in the middle of Krissy On Tour, a virtual tour of college campuses, hosting screenings and discussions at schools including Haverford College, The University of Oxford, and Ohio State University.
Still from Regenerative Memory Bank by Yellow 5 Yellow 6
Featured Artists:
Cherry Nin is an interdisciplinary artist in Philadelphia with a practice that includes video, performance, writing, and sound. Often employing cut-up techniques, garish effects, and spiraling interwoven dialogue, she points to reality as being unreliable. Nin is the founder of Krissy Talking Pictures and a recipient of the Leeway Foundation's Art and Change Grant as well as the Philadelphia Independent Media Fund.
France Rreally is a multimedia artist working with video art, documentary, performance, and costume to explore the ways rapidly changing technologies saturate and mediate our lives and relationships. He presents queer identity, interpersonal boundaries, and reality itself to be complex and customizable, empowering users to claim the agency to actualize their ideal lives through virtual means. FR has performed and screened his work online and around the USA with BRIC Arts Media, The Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Krissy Talking Pictures, and various film festivals. He is based in Brooklyn, NY, where he is continuously becoming himself in each passing moment.
Rat Porridge is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist born in Queens, currently living and walking in West Philadelphia (*U.S.-occupied Lenape Lands.) Her works center themselves around the creation//destruction of spaces. She recently released a full-length tape, Live from the Plant, via Gavilán Rayna Russom's NYC based label Voluminous Arts exploring themes of radio-activity. She also recently released a half-hour film with her creative partner Cherry Nin entitled "Question Everything Bitch" and they are currently working on a new video together that explores dreams, queer community, and anti-capitalist frameworks of living. She can be found haunting underground/DIY spaces near you across the colonized landmass of Turtle Island.
Xhep is a white non-binary, trans creator wanting to recreate spaces of communion, celebration, and expression found in queer dance and rave culture. They work in video and performance and meditate on radical honesty, education and hope.
Alyssa Michener is an experiential designer who identifies as a white non-binary, trans person and has documented social justice protest movements in Washington, DC since the George Floyd uprisings. In envisioning transformative justice, they seek for a space of healing for themself and their community members outside of the confines of their current spatial reality.
Oona Taper is a multimedia artist and experimental animator whose work, which embraces a love of physical materials and repetition, creates chaotic meditations on intimacy, physical space, and subjective experiences. Taper's short films have been screened at national and international film festivals including; The IVY Film Festival in Providence RI, OUTsider Fest in Austin, Texas, and Locomoción, an Experimental Animation Festival in Mexico City. Her video installations and works on paper have been showcased in galleries in Boston, Philadelphia, and Rome.
Yellow 5, Yellow 6 (they/them) is a Philadelphia-based multimedia artist exploring the confines of crisis and existence through catharsis. Their work sometimes explores memory, habit, ritual, and mindfulness practices, and other times focuses on consumer culture, and sometimes intersection of both.
Still from Queering Utopia by Alyssa Michener and Xhep