Kara Rooney

Language is the driving force behind Kara Rooney´s work. She is interested in the intersection of the body, word, and image as a means of gaining deeper insight into how we communicate with each other—how we formulate identity (or hide it)—as well as to how language's inherent blind spots affect our sense of collective consciousness.    

Her multi-disciplinary experiences as an artist, curator, and critic have helped fuel these interests, tuning her awareness to the role dialogue plays in shaping new ideas and testing boundaries. Rooney´s sculptures and photographic works fuse these components through the media of two and three-dimensions, in addition to site-specific installations incorporating digital video, sound, and performance.    

Of particular interest for Kara Rooney at this time is the subject of "closed" systems, specifically those surrounding the art object, photographic document, and written text. Through the creation of interactive environments and sculptural assemblages that invoke the openly interpretive nature of poetry, her work aims to highlight the slippage between memory, social interaction, and actual event as well as offer a physical meditation on how we build and break down our competing modes of thought and their residual structures—that dialectical and warring relationship between the rational and emotional mind.

Kara Rooney (born 1979) is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer and critic working in performance, sculpture and new media installation. Her visual work has been widely exhibited in international and domestic venues. Beginning in September of 2016, Rooney will participate as an artist-in-residence at the MeetFactory, Prague where she will continue her recent explorations into the field of choreography and performative installation. She is a Santo Foundation Individual Artist Grant recipient (2014) and her critical writings have been published in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic and M/E/A/N/I/N/G.  

http://www.karalrooney.com/