Current Project// KYLE PEETS
Throw a Potato Into the Void
Digital Video, 2:14 mins, 2020
ABOUT THE WORK
“I was really stressed once after having a fight on the phone with someone and hung up and just picked up a potato from my counter and opened the front door and threw it into the night void (probably my neighbor’s yard) and it made me feel better.
So I put out an open call with these instructions:
FIND A SPROUTING POTATO // PLACE ALL OF YOUR PAIN INTO THE POTATO // FIND A VOID // THROW THE POTATO INTO THE VOID // SEND ME THE VIDEO OF THE ACTION.
This video is a compilation of those submissions of collective catharsis and healing centered around the ritualistic gesture of throwing a potato into the void. To add to the collection send videos to kpeets@bellsouth.net”
- Kyle Peets
https://kylepeets.com / @kyle.peets
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kyle Peets (b. 1984, Utah) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who has exhibited his work nationally and abroad. He has had solo exhibitions at Platte Forum gallery (Denver, CO) the Ana Mendieta gallery (Iowa City, IA), and the Retzlaff gallery (Ashland, OR). Various group exhibitions and portfolio exchanges include Character Profile at Root Division gallery (San Francisco, CA), GET’CHA HEAD IN THE GAME at The Naughton Gallery at Queen’s University, Belfast, Ireland, Art Is Our Last Hope at The Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ), and Art Shanty on the frozen White Bear Lake (Minneapolis, MN). His video, You, was shown at the 2015 Southern Colorado Film Festival (Alamosa, CO). His work was published in the periodical SPRTS by Endless Editions (New York, NY), archived in the Watson Library Special Collections, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA, Manhattan, Artists’ Books. His poetry has been published by various literary journals such as Interrupture, NOÖ, and Stolen Island. Kyle received an artist in residence Richardson-Spica fellowship for the spring of 2017 and 2018 at Interlochen (Interlochen, MI), SIF fellowship, and Wilhelm and Jane Bodine fellowship from University of Iowa. He received his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from the University of Iowa as well as a graduate certificate in book arts from the Iowa Center For The Book.