About

 

Chrissy Brimmage (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working out of Brooklyn, NY, by way of Atlanta, GA.

Her practice utilizes the opportunities and constraints of digital and material mediums and space to research the structures of consciousness & experience. She is currently interested in social phenomenology (our social reality as a product of intersubjectivity), identity formation (how identity can be constructed & altered, & the negotiation of identity in society), spatial anthropology (understanding space as an extension of the body, and how the body & space co-construct each other) and embodied romance (understanding, building, and living a life of romance).

She has shown works nationally and internationally with Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia), PPOW Gallery in conjunction with Frieze Fair (New York), VMF Winter Arts (Vancouver), WISH Gallery (Atlanta) and more, and has taken residency with IMMENSIVA (Barcelona), Laboratory Interactive Art Residency (Spokane), and The Recurse Center (New York).

photo by ize commers

 
 
 

Some questions I’ve been asking myself:

  • What world do I want to live in?

  • What is identity, and how is it used?

  • What does freedom beyond oppression feel like?

  • How do you create space?

  • How do we build for a world where value is disconnected from capitalism?

Some frameworks I’m prioritizing:

  • Human-Centered Experimentation - Investigating and ideating new projects and tools around the needs and betterment of humanity.

  • Digital Refuge - Intentionally building spaces online that offer safety and respite during times of grief, trauma, or chaos as both standalones and alternatives to inaccessible, or unsafe material spaces.

  • Restorative Interaction - Interacting, and creating interactions that restore us to our authentic selves, before oppressive systems altered our physical, mental, spiritual and emotional relationships to ourselves and others.

  • Eschewing Binaries - Making room for the full breadth of humanity, and embracing the nonlinearity of gray areas and uncharted dreams.

  • Proactive Accessibility - Treating usability as a core value instead of an afterthought, and maintaining an intersectional practice through research and conversation to anticipate usability needs.