Scott Kiernan

Bio

Scott Kiernan is a recent MFA from the New Genres program of the San Francisco Art Institute and founder of the ZENITH FOUNDATION, a masked collective of none. He works across mediums, usually within the same piece. Scott currently lives in San Francisco, is a resident artist at Root Division, and is represented by Micaela Gallery (San Francisco), and Dam, Stuhltrager (Brooklyn). He is a 2008 SECA Award nominee, and will be showing next in Art Now Miami, Dam, Stuhltrager Brooklyn, and Realform in New York.

Statement

“Healing of K.” is an 11 minute video with content based on a box of found cassettes of what appears to be a healer/color therapist's taped sessions with a patient named “Kaye” from 1977-1980. In this video, Kaye has become K., as in Kafka's K. or “everyman”; and the audio has been assembled as to address a new audience. I hope the viewer struggles with feelings of ironic skepticism at the somewhat cheesy, soothing, even cult-like intonations of the speaker, and later in the piece, with the opposite feelings of reflexive physical response to matched color and aural intonations. Armed with the knowledge that this piece is based on actual candid sessions, I hope to explore what drives the “doctor/patient”, “cult/initiate”, even “media/consumer” relationship.