Kylie Newcomb

Kylie Newcomb is a performer, sculptor, writer and photo-videographer. Within the study of ecology, ancient rites, rituals, and shamanism...

There is an unconditional use of the body in Newcomb’s work. The body is her link, a pulsating conduit, indicating a place that is here and elsewhere. A body neutralized on a sexual and erotic level, A body rendered symbolic.

Her words and gestures tell a tale of isolation; a wild othering of the self. In a world built for us to sit outside of, the magic and power of the earth has been deemed super- natural and Not of this world. We have grown accustomed to the predictable and mechanical. We have forgotten the definition of safe.

Let us regenerate the social tissues torn by conflicts aris- ing from distinctions of status and discrepant structural normalities.

End of the use of your inside voice.

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Kylie Newcomb

How would you describe the visual language in your art? I deeply wish to understand and to be understood; my work is based in the tension between wondering and knowing. That frustrated, visceral internal shifting. I am waving at you. I am dancing with you, but you are holding a mirror while we move.

How did you land on photography as your primary medium?

All mediums may live inside of the photographic. The camera allows you to capture and contain and itemize and immortalize. The photograph may contain a sculpture, a painting, a performance, a secret...it is the shellac of the art world. It binds and unifies and encapsulates. To understand seeing opens new perspectives in all areas of creation.

When you were a kid, did you have the sense of what sort of creative path your life might take?

When I was little I was going to win American Idol. I was to sing to the country of love and peace, but I began singing at restaurants and neighbors’ birthday parties. Now I sing quietly to myself to calm my breathing. Now I feel like I pulsate. I was born into performance and I sing and I dance through this. I sing and I dance for my own peace.