Chip Kimura

Programs and Events Associate

Chip Kimura is a transdisciplinary cultural worker and performance scholar. Their research practice approaches speculative experiments in language, somatics, performance, and pedagogy as historically material encounters with anti-colonial possibilities for living on, with, and otherwise. They are published in Heichi Magazine, Weekend, Another Tab of Chrome, No Dancing, and Ginger Magazine; performed and exhibited in NY, LA, Portland(OR), Berlin, Basel, and Oslo; co-founded Complimenta Inc., an artist-run center in Enfield, NY hosting site-specific programs from 2012-2015; received an M.A. in Performance Studies at NYU, MFA in New Genres at Hunter College, and B.A. in Sculpture from Bard College; attended LANDING 2.0 with Miguel Guttierrez, MSA^ Mountain School of Art, and Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Chip was raised in Brooklyn, where they currently live with their cat No.6.

 

A photo of Chip in a park with a concrete wall behind them. They are wearing a hat and gloves, wrapped in an emergency blanket that they hold in their teeth, while pulling a spool of blue twine between two long metal poles and yellow sheets.
ID: A photo of Chip in a park with a concrete wall behind them. They are wearing a hat and gloves, wrapped in an emergency blanket that they hold in their teeth, while pulling a spool of blue twine between two long metal poles and yellow sheets.