Landi Kirkwood

Landi Kirkwood creates work that reflects upon identity and legacy using a range of processes, including sculpture, lens media and performance. Exploring individual as well as collective trauma, her interest is in not only its occurrence, but the potentiality for healing in its aftermath. Questioning personal agency alongside social myth, her work often looks at gender, racial and class inequality as well as the systems that continue sustain these ideologies.

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In the spaces between is in contemplation of narrative, language and ownership, the elevation of native culture at the forefront of the work. As the daughter of a Colombian woman of indigenous descent I am drawn to the traditions and mythologies of the Muisca people, bringing attention to the cultural assimilation of their spiritual practices and native tongue. Reflecting upon the institution of the museum and its dark colonial legacy, I explore myth, truth and knowledge in the hope to subvert these occupied histories as well as empower and recognise those who have come before me.
 

The use of technological output alongside analogue processes such as performative drawing allows me to bring attention to the importance of accessibility to knowledge and culture as I explore material and its many possibilities. The transformative nature of my making allows for ever-changing states that carry into the future alongside the trace of action left behind, my use of technology and the glitch a strategy to both illuminate and disrupt. The interruptive nature of the glitch opens endless space as it cuts through what we have come to accept as the norm. The glitch reveals much more than just something gone wrong – it reveals the spaces in between, and it is within these spaces that opportunity lies. 

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Click HERE for Landi's performances.