MEGHAN MOE BEITIKS
APRIL 4 - 5 // HOME // GAINESVILLE, FL
Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and disassociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyzes perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions, and her own body in order to produce work that analyzes relationships with the non-human. She was a Fulbright Student Fellow, a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists, and a MacDowell Colony fellow. She exhibited her work at the I-Park Environmental Art Biennale, Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery in Chicago, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the House of Artists in Moscow, and other locations in California, Chicago, Australia and the UK. She received her BA in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her MFA in Performance Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida.
During my short 2-day residency, I worked on a contacted book for Routledge, played with some audio transducers, read a new book from Candor Arts, and took some self-care/downtime. The book I'm working on is based on a project exploring pain and resilience-- and ideas of viral interconnectivity are proving very relevant, in a somewhat heavy way. The audio transducers are something I've been playing with for awhile, ironically for a yet-unrealized piece on safe distances-- trying now to just spend some with them and get an idea of what they might be doing or saying that is generative.
I often work best within self-devised structures, so Shelter as a framework for working from home was perfect for my process, gave me a lens on my goals and tasks for the weekend. I got a lot done without feeling too much pressure to by hyper-productive. Stuff was done, in a way that helped move my process forward and distract me from the escalating seriousness of the pandemic.
