We are excited to announce to that, Kim Salac, is our first of two visual artist residents this year! They will be joining us from July – August.
About Kim:
Kim Salac (they/them) is a Brooklyn-based queer Filipino-American filmmaker who spent their childhood in Singapore and their adolescence in Virginia. They hold a BA in Film and New Media from the University of Virginia. There, they taught as an Aunspaugh Fellow, and later became an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Over the last six years, they have produced twenty-seven short films and screened recently at the New York Film Festival. Today, Salac uses personal documentary to assert modes of labor—be they personal, domestic, or collective—as transitory yet potent sites for reckoning with the legacy of U.S. imperialism and its aftermath of migration and cultural displacement in the Philippines.
Works by Kim:
I’ll Come Meet You in The Morning (2024)
In the early months of 1970, the Filipino masses organized to overthrow the dictator Marcos and his imperial puppeteers. Imagined as a letter to Enrique Sta. Brigada, a student protestor martyred at the hands of state brutality, this elegy pays homage to collective realities of grief and struggle.
The Seafarer (2023)
In this visual diary, personal archives interweave with the found archives of strangers to fill in gaps where time has eroded details. This act of “fishing,” a deliberate practice of collection, is a living act, casted as a form of eulogy and rebuilding simultaneously.
