brin gordon

About

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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

We live our lives on a giant playground, and nobody seems to notice this crucial fact of existence! Why is everything the same as it is!? Things are the way they are because they have always been that way, and that’s a bore, boring into our bodies and brains everyday. I work with my hands and words to grab the world and people around me and pull them together to try and build something new, something playful, something ready to be rebuilt again and again when it gets old or we just want to have some fun.

I work to inhabit life like a burlesque mythology, bend genre and gender, revel in human materials, invite new forms of contact, plan extravagant meals, truly share experiences, and take people deep into the forest. I mean all of this literally and at times metaphorically, and my work makes a point to take the literal metaphorically and the metaphor literal. I take a confectionary approach to the world and sample as much as I can. At times by myself, but as often as possible in collaboration, I strive to learn and to teach in ways which build community and new ways to be together.