Meredith Kooi - 2019 Summer Fellow
Meredith Kooi is an artist, curator, critic, researcher, and educator working across mediums who is driven by curiosity and an eagerness to understand the places where she is at any point in time. Using performance, radio, audio, installation, drawing, writing, the web, and social practice, Meredith digs into the materials of history to uncover narratives of place. Meredith was awarded Creative Loafing’s inaugural Influencer in Art & Culture award (2018), was a recipient of the 2014-2015 Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Emerging Artist Award, and was a WonderRoot Hughley Fellow (2017-18). She is the founder and director of the curatorial platform ALTERED MEANS, the director of development at The Bakery Atlanta, and was the editor and assistant director of Radius (2011-2017), an experimental radio broadcast platform in Chicago. She received her MA in Visual and Critical Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently a PhD candidate in The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University.
Meredith Kooi’s project, Muncie Memories, was a collaborative storytelling project that invited the residents of Muncie to participate in a mobile interview booth which appeared at numerous locations around the city throughout five weeks. Kooi also used process such as conducting and recording oral histories, soundwalking, archival research, and asset mapping in collaboration with five interns from the Ball State University School of Art. Together they gathered artifacts and living archive that was presented in the form of a collaborative exhibition and website.
The written portions of the project are visible at munciememories.tumblr.com. Below is an archive of images from the wide-ranging project.
