Charity Be

Statement

Contextual intermedia artist Charity Be constructs unnatural environments and temporal-spatial situations in her art. She is currently interested in how and why we move our bodies individually and collectively through time and space. How do we connect, how do we encounter, what are our intentions and rhythms? Drawing heavily from philosophical texts and the cycles of nature, Be often builds sensory-rich environments with video, sound, textiles, performance and sculpture that heighten or disorient our senses, in order to manifest the invisible and experience the conceptual through our bodies.

GlogauAIR Project

Presently I am thinking a lot about the connections existing between lifeforms–both tangible and intangible: air; energy; vibrations; time; space; experiences; language; culture. During this six month artist-in-residence period at GlogauAIR, I am exploring these interconnections in the realization of a series of intermedia installations and participatory performance workshops. Considering both horizontal geographies and vertical spaces as informants of individual and group identity, I am in part responding site-specifically, be that to the residency itself or the city of Berlin. How are we experiencing our bodies, and our connections and communications with one another in these spaces?

CV Summary

• Solo-Exhibition
  • 2017 con•text•u•al, Slide Space 123, Oakland CA.
• Group Exhibition
  • 2021 Performance Salon, GlogauAiR. Berlin, Germany.
  • 2020 Cityscapes, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
  • 2018 Walk the Line, Gearbox Gallery, Oakland CA
  • 2017 Open Dissonance, BFA Thesis Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA
• Awards
  • 2017 Vermont Studio Center Residency Scholarship (for 2018)
  • 2017 Undergraduate Research Grant, Mills College, Oakland CA
  • 2014 Oakland Stock MicroGrant, Oakland CA
  • 2006 Angeles Arrien Grant, Oakland CA
• Residency
  • TBD Icelandic Textile Center, Iceland. (postponed from 2020)
  • 2021 GlogauAiR. Berlin, Germany. June-December. (postponed from 2020)
  • 2020 Carrick Quay. Glasgow, Scotland. August 2020-January 2021
  • 2018 Vermont Studio Center, April

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