still from the 15 minute video studies for the perfect moment by Trudi Lynn Smith and Krista Caballero — Trudi Lynn Smith and Krista Caballero. Still from Studies for Making and Unmaking, 15 minute video loop (2017).

Projects

Studies for Making and Unmaking

ByTrudi Lynn Smith July 20, 2018August 15, 2023

Studies for Making and Unmaking

Shown Here: Video still from 15′ loop. Background Photo: Timothy O’Sullivan’s City of Rocks, Idaho 1868. Source: War Department. Office of the Chief of Engineers. U.S. Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel. (1867 – 1881)

Over the past decade Krista Caballero and I have collaborated on arts based research and experimental knowledge practices, including collective workshops, place-responsive installations, and scholarly publications. Through these varied actions we have developed a collaborative, unfixed lexicon depicting our struggles as artists to bring attention to the overlooked and unrecognized through focusing on interdependence, justice, agency and everyday ecologies.

From our work together we have created several works and collaborations with other artists. The project website can be found here: http://studiesfor.org/ And the video here http://studiesfor.org/video/

Installation shot of Studies for Making and Unmaking. Trudi Lynn Smith and Krista Caballero

Studies for Making and Unmaking. Shown here, installation documentation.

Breath Camera

ByTrudi Lynn Smith January 30, 2016March 4, 2023

The Breath Camera is a wearable camera form about impermanence: camera bellows, viewing screen, and a 3 x 9 foot darkcloth mix the fleshy with the fleeting.

Anarchival materiality

ByTrudi Lynn Smith April 10, 2018August 15, 2023

Anarchival materiality within archives is an ongoing research-creation project that documents the generative force of entropy in archives. The force of molecular transformation, violence, displacement, and other human and non-human agencies render archival materials as fugitives, both eluding and driving preservation.