Kathryn Marshall

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About Kathryn Marshall

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Framed stills from Mock-Science 16mm camera-less...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:45:36 -0400

Framed stills from Mock-Science 16mm camera-less animation.

Color Prints in Shadow boxes.

10”x10”

Framed stills from Mock-Science 16mm camera-less...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:43:15 -0400

Framed stills from Mock-Science 16mm camera-less animation.

Color Prints in Shadow boxes.

10”x10”

Chroma-Choreography A video of dance, two bodies, two...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:36:46 -0400

Chroma-Choreography

A video of dance, two bodies, two costumes, and two colors. In Post-production, the bodies’ “skins” are changed and mutated into windows, reflections, projections, and new integuments that reflect the body within, respond to it, or dissolve its boundaries as a single body or structure. The dance reflects experiments in color, shape, and movement—exploring how two bodies move in conjunction with one another. Further experiments investigate how these bodies, these organisms, these shapes hold the potential to embody a new space or entirely new form that is contingent on the costume and color palette cloaking the body.

The video was produced by sewing two chroma-key costumes—using blue and green fabric—and keying out each panel of color within the costumes to create a window for an alternative surface, texture, or color. The embedded videos are experimental clips examining the vast spectrum of color that can be found within our skin, when pressure or tension is applied; other clips use fabric or ink as a means of animating a surface and bringing a wide scope of colors to a small area. The choreography was heavily influenced by contact improv and was conceived on the spot, dictated by the costume’s limitations or flexibility when moving.

Directed, Produced, Choreographed, Animated, and Costume Design
by Kathryn Marshall & Noemi Bilger.
© 2013

“Coloropoly.” An interactive performance video using...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:33:52 -0400

“Coloropoly.”

An interactive performance video using paint and a simple text-to-speech program to propose visual and linguistic challenges within a carnival of colors.

Written and Performed by Kathryn Marshall.

Music by Muzak.

“Trapascopic” 50lb Plaster mold with two windows in...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:32:42 -0400

“Trapascopic”

50lb Plaster mold with two windows in wooden hood, encasing monitor and computer.

Two-channel video of 16mm film camera-less animation, “Mock-Science.” (see below)

Glass and copper antique kaleidoscope mounted on wooden trapezoids fixed to pedestal.

Plaster mold, 38”x36”x24” / 3.5” deep.

Wooden hood, 40” x 38” x 26” / 8” deep.

“Mock-Science” A series of strips of hand-painted...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:31:00 -0400

“Mock-Science”

A series of strips of hand-painted 16mm film spliced together and animated through color and shape. Each strip was painted on with India ink, acrylic paint, drawing inks, gloss medium, shellac, bleach, acetone, xylene, sharpie markers, thread, cotton, saran-wrap, and x-acto blades. Heat, moisture, and cold were applied—and in some cases, gravity, where the strips were hung at shifting angles as they dried or hardened. Finally, each frame was photographed individually and either backlit or frontlit to emphasize color or texture.
Though each strip was created in an entirely experimental manner, there was a startling resemblance not only between all the strips, but also to biology and microscopy—where each individual frame was strikingly similar to images produced in a lab or photographs of micro-organisms, fibers, or crystals, etc.

These films evoke a living-laboratory, where the images—or mock-science—comes alive when played as a film, but also can be dissected as individual specimens or samples from a larger study when the video is scrubbed through frame by frame.

Kathryn Marshall
©2013

“Helix Nebula” Monoprint. Lithographic Ink on...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 21:03:00 -0400

“Helix Nebula”

Monoprint. Lithographic Ink on paper.

31” x 22.5”

Video stills of “Terre,” three-channel video, with...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:45:00 -0400

Video stills of “Terre,” three-channel video, with sound, rear-projected in box.

Gallery Shots of Senior Show Exhibit, “Moving...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:09:00 -0400

Gallery Shots of Senior Show Exhibit, “Moving Target.” Featuring works by Kathryn Marshall, Noemi Bilger, and Victor Fernandez. Opening Night March 26, 2013.

Work pictured: [three-channel video in box with headphones]

“Terre” by Kathryn Marshall

Gallery Shots of Senior Show Exhibit, “Moving...

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 18:52:00 -0400

Gallery Shots of Senior Show Exhibit, “Moving Target.” Featuring works by Kathryn Marshall, Noemi Bilger, and Victor Fernandez. Opening Night March 26, 2013.

An old clip dug up from the Pre-Linger archives for a carpet...

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:27:00 -0500

An old clip dug up from the Pre-Linger archives for a carpet company, Chemstrand Corporation, ad-campaign. The clip was then re-edited, condensed, and had its audio stripped. The new soundtrack and narration were revamped to completely alter the ad’s message and product—resulting in a short parody of the “Golden Age” of advertising.

Script written and read by Kathryn Marshall.

Music and SFX from archive.org

Untitled. Digital Photograph. New York, NY. 2010

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:48:00 -0500

Untitled.

Digital Photograph.

New York, NY.

2010

“Real Estate Agency” Photograph. West Palm Beach,...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:47:42 -0500

“Real Estate Agency”

Photograph.

West Palm Beach, FL.

2010

“Portal” Digital Photograph. Paris, France. 2012.

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“Portal”

Digital Photograph.

Paris, France.

2012.

An experiment exploring the reproduction of interstellar images,...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:38:54 -0500

Frontside of Helix Nebula monoprint

Backside of Helix Nebula monoprint

An experiment exploring the reproduction of interstellar images, specifically the Helix Nebula—a dead star 650 light years away from Earth.

This series of monoprints, where each layer was run through the press multiple times with multiple layers stacked on each print, is a study of how light travels through space and how much of its intensity and clarity is lost before it even reaches our retinae. Certain colors of our visible light spectrum possess higher energy (such as blue and violet) than other colors (such as red and yellows) and therefore is more likely to travel further distances more “intact.”

The physical qualities and limitations of paper are similar to that of stellar dust clouds or atmospheres the light has to travel through; in other words, each sheet of paper is another “atmosphere” the ink has to travel through before it is absorbed and visible on the final and furthest sheet of paper. The resulting image—or ghostprint—is perhaps more compelling than the original and most saturated print.

Lithographic Ink on Newsprint. Acetate top-layer in left print.

German Etch Paper. 36” x 27”

Second ghost print of the Helix Nebula. Lithographic Ink on...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:21:26 -0500

Frontside of Ghostprint of Original (with acetate layer on top to mask Nebula with a dark halo)

Backside of Ghostprint

Second ghost print of the Helix Nebula.

Lithographic Ink on Newsprint. Acetate top-layer in left print.

German Etch Paper. 36” x 27”

Third ghost print of Helix Nebula. Newsprint laid on top of the...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:58:25 -0500

Third ghost print of Helix Nebula. Newsprint laid on top of the 2nd ghost print, laid on top of the original, and then run through the press.

Lithographic Ink on Newsprint.