Jesse Darling (b. 1980) is a journeyman artist currently based in London, UK. JD has a background in dance and physical theatre, but went on to study fine art at Amsterdam’s Rietveld Academie and at St Martin’s College in London. Responsive, collaborative, often site-specific, her work plays with entropy and contingency: structures (social, societal, archetypal and architectural) bricolaged together by magical thinking, gaffer tape and the “black foam” of intersubjective networks. JD works in installation, intervention and video, “dasein by design”, and the spaces in which performance becomes unmediated experience. She has performed, published and exhibited internationally. Jesse Darling also teaches experimental video and performance in community groups, and views this work as an important strand in her research.
While in NYC JD will be mostly editing greenscreen performance art, researching pornographic tropes in culture, playing with proximity sensors and reading about contingency, performativity, and Marxist Ideology.
Admittedly this sounds like a lot to deal with in one month, so offers of enriching diversion and good conversations are welcome. JD is into collaboration, flux and liminality. If anyone wants to get behind some of that, feel free to drop in and say hello.
