Kara Thorndike
- Work
- Biography
As an integrated, antidisciplinary researcher and practitioner, I am interested in how we choose to be and why. I seek wisdom in understanding the context of experiences that shape how we are to give voice to experiences, realized or otherwise, to highlight potentiality. I reject that life, work, family, and environment are separate and/or static.
Through telling serialized stories of lived experience across mediums and platforms my work challenges myths that fragment humanity, subverts marginalization and feelings of powerlessness in lived experiences, and aims to instigate growth experiences. Each story is an opportunity to learn, understand, and reclaim our place in this interconnected whole; a beginning step toward wisdom, personal and social.
Through telling serialized stories of lived experience across mediums and platforms my work challenges myths that fragment humanity, subverts marginalization and feelings of powerlessness in lived experiences, and aims to instigate growth experiences. Each story is an opportunity to learn, understand, and reclaim our place in this interconnected whole; a beginning step toward wisdom, personal and social.
EXHIBITIONS
producing knowledge, installation, OPEN, Westside Arts Base, Edinburgh : April 2024
DIO Gallery, A gallery of home, place, and all the spaces : Worldwide : 2023-2024
DIY PhD : prefiguring learning for the ecocene, Artist Talk, There’s Something in the Way exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland : September 2023
IN UNISON, The Community Gallery, Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Museum, Dunfermline, Scotland : Mar. - Apr. 2023
try as they might…, NORTH, Visual Arts Scotland Winter Exhibition, Inverness, Scotland : Dec. 2022
this is not a manifesto. this is life., durational performance, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland : Oct. 2022
Prefiguring Learning for the Ecocene: Decolonizing doctoral level arts research, serialized performance of DIY PhD research, with(in) Scotland and global independent research communities : 2022-2025, Scotland
Cake Stand Biennale group show, David W. Mullins Library, Fayetteville, Arkansas : Apr. 2022
Whose story is it? group show, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland : Mar. 2022
Artist Talk, Eastern Maine Camera Club, Maine : Dec. 2021
I am here, group performance, 7 min., International Women’s Day, FlushFest, Horsecross Arts, Perth, Scotland : 2019
and we farmed…; MFA Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland : Aug. 2019
not small, solo performance, 5 min., International Women’s Day, FlushFest, Horsecross Arts, Perth, Scotland : 2019
Annual Show, Frederick County Art Society, Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, MD : 2017, 2018
Washington County Annual Community Art Show : Best Local Art 2017, Hagerstown, MD : 2017
EDUCATION
MFA, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
MA Sociology, Texas A&M International University
BA Sociology, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
producing knowledge, installation, OPEN, Westside Arts Base, Edinburgh : April 2024
DIO Gallery, A gallery of home, place, and all the spaces : Worldwide : 2023-2024
DIY PhD : prefiguring learning for the ecocene, Artist Talk, There’s Something in the Way exhibition at Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland : September 2023
IN UNISON, The Community Gallery, Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Museum, Dunfermline, Scotland : Mar. - Apr. 2023
try as they might…, NORTH, Visual Arts Scotland Winter Exhibition, Inverness, Scotland : Dec. 2022
this is not a manifesto. this is life., durational performance, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland : Oct. 2022
Prefiguring Learning for the Ecocene: Decolonizing doctoral level arts research, serialized performance of DIY PhD research, with(in) Scotland and global independent research communities : 2022-2025, Scotland
Cake Stand Biennale group show, David W. Mullins Library, Fayetteville, Arkansas : Apr. 2022
Whose story is it? group show, Spilt Milk Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland : Mar. 2022
Artist Talk, Eastern Maine Camera Club, Maine : Dec. 2021
I am here, group performance, 7 min., International Women’s Day, FlushFest, Horsecross Arts, Perth, Scotland : 2019
and we farmed…; MFA Degree Show, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland : Aug. 2019
not small, solo performance, 5 min., International Women’s Day, FlushFest, Horsecross Arts, Perth, Scotland : 2019
Annual Show, Frederick County Art Society, Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, MD : 2017, 2018
Washington County Annual Community Art Show : Best Local Art 2017, Hagerstown, MD : 2017
EDUCATION
MFA, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
MA Sociology, Texas A&M International University
BA Sociology, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania
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- Mixed Media
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- untitled (home econoomies of scale)
- Photography
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- untitled (conversations with institutions series)
- Performance
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- untitled (conversations with institutions series)
- Performance
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- untitled (coping)
- Performance
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- philosophy (producing knowledge series)
- Photography
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- no. (powerful words series)
- Mixed Media
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