SELECT PROJECTS
Making the Invisible Visible
Project Prototype
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
Boothbay, Maine
Created for the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science, these experimental prototypes exist as a part of a larger collaboration between the laboratory and the University of Maine New Media Department. I developed the early phases of the project and created these introductory pieces as a part of early experimentation and collaboration.
Tools: Adobe Premiere, Blackmagic
Shot, written and narrated by Eleanor Kipping
Workshop: Social Constructs and Haiku Portraits
Workshop Designer & Facilitator
GAKKO Project, Chiba, Japan
A 3-part workshop that explored the influence of cultural and historical narratives on identity. This workshop was designed to challenge participants to think about how they consume, create and present representations of themselves as well as others and how culture, and identity contribute to these understandings of ourselves and Others. Through a series of individual and group writing exercises, participants each created and recorded their own haiku. The outcome is a collaborative sound collage that is developed through a series of iterative writing activities, audio recordings, and assemblage.
Ages: 14-18
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WOKEshop™
Workshop Designer & Facilitator
WOKEshop™: an interactive experience designed to increase social consciousness around race and gender. This interactive workshop is designed to invite a group of multi-racial participants to challenge and explore notions of racism, bias, intersectionality, Whiteness, and other topics surrounding contemporary race relations.
Keep scrolling for additional resources to continue the discussion and thought on race relations specific to WOKEshop discussion.
4 Sound Poets
Album and Album Cover Design; Digital Program Design
#safetywork manual
#safetywork manual is a collaborative durational spoken word performance. Several male-identifying performers stand in the gallery space wearing nude tights and high heels for the duration of the piece with their bodies, their fatigue, and discomfort on display. Throughout the performance, they recite from a small paper pamphlet entitled #safetywork manual, a poetic instruction of the work that women do to protect themselves from sexual harassment and assault.
The content of the manual was curated by a group of Black female-identifying women that live, work, and study in the Orono community. Together they discussed and created the 15-foot banner that hangs in the space, accompanies the performance, and instructs women on how to protect themselves against harassment, assault, or abuse based on the work that they do to protect themselves in the workplace, their homes, and localities. The aesthetic, orientation, and language were solely determined by the female collaborators; they decided how best to articulate their safety work.
Authored & facilitated by Eleanor Kipping; Collaborators: Kirsten Daily, Noelle Leon-Palmer, Priscilla Moncrieffe; Male Performers: Reed Gordon, Steve Norton, Will Young; Video Assistant: Nathan Dumas