brin constant gordon

About

Brin Constant Gordon is an animator, dramaturg, and pataphysician whose work and thinking is communicable at the syzygy of genre, subjectivity, the body, and play. While their work doesn’t stand clearly in any specific disciplines, their individual work generally manifests as poetry, animated non-fiction films, and 2 dimensional works for the wall. These projects tend towards an interest in language and systems, and how those things divide up the world into different forms of subjects, objects, and other things, perhaps. They are additionally the co-founder of Experience Cult Research Group, through which they focus on the ways in which we jam meaning making in our lives, and how we can constantly find new ways to resolve those contradictions. They hold an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts.

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Mission Statement

I work to reveal, through performance, animation, and writing, that the world is a giant playground which we have the power to build and rebuild together as we need. I work, as a dramaturg, animator, and pataphysician, to bring people to the ability to encounter the world as a malleable place in which we can encounter each other and ourselves. This world is frightening and fun, it is impacted by things like words, ideas, stones, actions, and buildings. 

Through experimental essay films, writing which bridges the academic and the poetic, and illustrations I propose frameworks and diagrams which can be used as ciphers for our world. My ‘Periproxology’ project focuses on these forms of communication and language to draw ideas and words into syzygy so that new meanings can be created, and new things can be revealed in the world. Through my theatrical and performance work, I both create stage images which blur the relationship between the literal and metaphoric, focusing on the fundamental element of performance which is the actual encounter between an audience and a presence on stage. I have long been engaged with the lineage of Jerzy Grotowski, and create and lead participants in performance-adjacent, or paratheaterical, experiences ranging from improvised movement to invented holidays to durational retreats. In all these forms, it is fundamental of my work that it interrogates or plays with or deconstructs binaries; binaries of gender, of human and object, of literal and metaphor, of mental and material. I work with and for communities across all these disciplines I work in, and my work finds purpose through bringing together people with different ways of thinking, different metaphysics which get to be exchanged and added as facets to a greater shared experience of the world we are collaboratively building.