Kirsten Leenaars

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Updated project website: (Re)Housing the American Dream
Exhibition Catalog (Re)Housing the American Dream, 2018
Exhibition York College Galleries: (Re)Housing the American Dream, September 6 – October 12, 2018, York (PA)
Opening Reception (Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles, Thursday Sept 20th, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee
Living Architecture: Opening Celebration, September 3, 2018, Chicago
Boulevard Dreamers at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 21, 2018
Lecture: (Re)Housing the American Dream at Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement conference at the University of Utrecht, June 21, 2018

Interviews / Texts

Everyday Resistance in the Art Space
Episode 636: Haller Baggesen and Leenaars, interview Bad at Sports
WVYC Perspectives with YCP Artist in Residence Kirsten Leenaars
Bad at Sports review: A World of Pain
Curatorial Text #thisistomorrow by Jose Ruiz
COMP Magazine Interview Kirsten Leenaars – Fictionalized Real Experience
Essay by Lori Waxman: Spinning Hula Hoops with My Dad, and Other Ways to Make Happiness
Inside/Within Interview
“Public Art: Given a Chance, Can It Work for You?”
Amy Moony and Neysa Page Lieberman on RISK
Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice
WBEZ 91.5: An MCA Soap Opera
Sounding out Useful Pictures
How To Get To Mutualisms

Video 2018

(Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles
What a f what a f what a freedom
Self Portraits (Face Time)
(Re)Housing the American Dream: Freedom Principles at the Haggerty Museum of Art, installation views
(Re)Housing the American Dream at York College Galleries, installation views
Boulevard Dreamers at the Art Institute of Chicago

Drawing & Text 2018

It is easy to get lost in metaphors (my intuition is a song)

Video 2017

Three Channel Video: (Re)Housing the American Dream: A Message from the Future
Video Interviews: The Shape of Things (Come Tomorrow)
Home Front

Drawing & Text 2017

Typographies of Hope
how are you feeling America?

Video 2016

Three – Channel Video: (Re)Housing the American Dream
We The People – video interviews
New and Definitively Improved, dream house videos

Drawing 2016

I’ve Got The Best Words
A House is a House is a House
(Re)Constitution

Video 2015

#thisistomorrow
#thisistomorow installation views show
The Veras: Family Constellations

performances 2015

The Imaginary Center of Perception
Notes on Empty Chairs (part 3)
Notes on Empty Chairs (part 2)
Notes on Empty Chairs (part 1)
I will talk like you will talk like me / Yo hablaré como tú hablarás como yo – Mexico City

Drawings / Text Based Work 2015

The distance between you and all the words spoken, all the things you read

Video 2014

3 Channel Video Installation: Not In Another Place, But This Place… (Happiness)
Video: Not In Another Place, But This Place… (Happiness)
Boulevard Dreamers at MCA, Chicago (excerpts)

Projects 2014

Symprovisation
I will talk like you will talk like me / Yo hablaré como tú hablarás como yo – Chicago
Risky Encounters at 6018 North: 3 channel video installation/live performance: Not In Another Place , But This Place… (Happiness)
Boulevard Dreamers at the MCA, Chicago

Photo 2014

Boulevard Dreamers Portraits

Drawing 2014

Drawings for a Video
Still Life
Romancing the Post Office, Or Why You Love Your Mail Carrier So (part 2)

Video – Performance 2013

Preview: Not In Another Place, But In This Place… (Happiness)
Under Construction Live
Boulevard Dreamers at The Franklin
Preview of The Invasion of the Hairy Blobs
Homeland of Gestures, part 1 – 4

Projects 2013

Boulevard Dreamers Installation

Photo 2013

Love, Daughters, Girls, (Josie)
Not in another place but this place…
And what is reason? And what is love? And what is life?
Boulevard Dreamers Portraits

Drawing 2013

Romancing the Post Office, Or Why You Love Your Mail Carrier So (part1)
The Imaginary Center of Perception
You Are Here

Curatorial 2013

The Dutch Don’t Dance
Between Places 13 – Detroit
Between Places 13 – Chicago

Video 2012

Preview of The Invasion of the Hairy Blobs (The Conspiracy of Improbabilities)
All Will Be Revealed
Astro Space Party

Projects 2012

The Invasion Of The Hairy Blobs: On The Set
The Happiness Project Part 3: On The Set
The Happiness Project Part 2: Visiting Artist at Senn High School
The Happiness Project: Set Building
Cutlery and the Technology of Oneness

Photo 2012

Ways to Wayfinding

Drawing 2012

Rising and Falling Actions. (Everything is imprinted forever with what it once is)
Yes and No. (Words Can Eat Things.)

Curatorial 2012

Between Places, Detroit
Between Places, Chicago
Detroit USA: Material, Site, Narrative
Mutualisms: the publication

Video 2011

On Our Way to Tomorrow – episodes 1-13
Folding Within You Without You
Family Swim, attempts to synchronize
Acts of Seeing – a choreography for what actually is
The Shadows Lay Where They Belong

Projects 2011

The Happiness Project Part 1: Under Construction
On Our Way to Tomorrow
The Making of On Our Way to Tomorrow
Mutualisms
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
The Making of Family Swim

Photo 2011

Yeah, You Made Me Feel Shiny and New
Playas Ball
Family Swim Publication

Video 2010

The Impossible Voyage
Circus Vertigo
Imaginary Homelands
In the Distance All the Other Voices

Video 2009

About Love and About Nothing Else
Money From Nowhere

Video 2008

Travelogue of a Stationary Dreamer

Projects 2008

Studies in Isolation
Where Did You Go Bas Jan Ader – Lovingly Rose Selavy

Projects 2007

Belief

Studio Drawings

Studio Drawings

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