Kristin Smith

Kristin Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who has long been fascinated by our unnamable physical sensations and their relationship to our awareness. Smith explores both the experience and concept of time as well as the relationship between the physical and internal worlds of an individual. It is especially the liminal spaces, the vast confusion in layers of human awareness that inspires Smith. Lost in this convoluted web herself, the artist relies on her visceral experience, intuition, play, chance, and even sometimes scientific research to guide and inspire her. Through performance, photography, and video installation, Smith investigates this complex constellation of relationships between mind, body, experience, and consciousness. Kristin Smith comes from a diverse artistic background, combining her love of physical theatre and visual art. Smith\'s work will be showcased in Canada by the Esker Foundation in Summer 2012. She now lives and works in San Francisco after completing a residency at CELLspace in 2010. Smith earned her MFA in Mixed Media from the University of Calgary, during which time she also participated in Interrarium, an interdisciplinary residency at the Banff Centre (2008). Her performance work was presented as a part of E-Merge for the Fluid Movement Arts Festival (2008), and she also enjoyed collaborating with companies such as kloetzel&co (Calgary & New York) and W&M Physical Theatre (Calgary & Poland) throughout her time in Calgary. Smith earned her BA in both Theatre Arts and Art from the University of Minnesota.