Garments
Imagine something you know very well, like the trousers you put your legs into this morning. Imagine encountering them in an impossible …
Goldenrod Transect
Goldenrod Transect (2021) 15-minute performance commissioned for Cecilia Vicuña’s “Insectageddon” event on the High Line in New York, NY in September of …
Treetopping
Treetopping (Blake’s Hitch, Ladder Tie, Limb Loop). Denim, cotton, poly-fil, installed in a red oak tree with the assistance of arborist Dylan …
Cucú and Her Fishes / Cucú y sus pececillos
New Museum artists in residence Ensayos premiered Act I of their experimental ecofeminist drama Cucú and Her Fishes on September 1, 2020 at 6AM, …
Hydrofeminist METitations: Americas
As part of our digital residency at the New Museum, Ensayos produced three podcasts drawing from our transdisciplinary work. The podcasts focus on waters …
Heart of Goldenrod
Workroom at Swale House, Governors Island, NYC Christy Gast brings her Mobile Tinctorium to Governor’s Island to extract color from goldenrod (solidago …
Topology
This series of sculptures proposes poetic and tensile entanglements between human and tree limbs, with textiles as the intermediary. Behind this work …
Vi ser på korn på Ruene (Hva skal kyrne f ores med?)
Looking at Grain at Ruene Farm (What to feed the cows?) is the result of a collaboration with Stian Haltuff of the organic …
¿’Onde va la lancha?
From Discipline / Gertrude Contemporary announcement ¿’Onde va la lancha? is a 15-minute lecture-performance during which Gast provides a live voice-over for a video …
Castor Magellanica
From When Species Meet exhibition text In Christy Gast’s video Castor Magellanica, the figure of a beaver in the form of a …
Field Work
Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile 2016 In her first solo exhibition at Galería Patricia Ready, Christy Gast presents Field Work. The exhibition …
Mobile Tinctorium
Mobile Tinctorium is an itinerant textile dye studio devoted to foraging for colors in forests, fields and urban environments. The intention, rather than …
Dear Enemy
Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles, 2015 Dear Enemy consists of four perfumes created by a team of artists and scientists …
Entangled
From BHQFU press release Collaboration with writer/sociologist Denise Milstein and other members of Ensayos FUG will serve as Ensayos’ New York basecamp—part …
Byways
Gallery Diet, Miami 2014 Text by Jarrett Earnest Christy Gast is a Tramp. And by that I don’t mean she’s a floozy, …
Beyond the End
Beyond the End at the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris was the first exhibition of projects by artists, scientists and thinkers involved with Ensayos, …
Rock Quarry
Rock Quarry 2014 HD Video 4:54 Performer: Jarrett Earnest Audio: Whiskey Noise (Felecia Carlisle, Emile Milgrim, Mindy Abovitz, Thom Wheeler Castillo, Reed …
Inholdings
Locust Projects, Miami 2014 From Locust Projects’ press release Locust Projects is pleased to present Inholdings, an exhibition of new work by Miami-based …
War Drums
War Drums (25 minutes, 2014) was shot in one of the few existing stands of pine forest in Dade County, near a …
Quilts
A series of reconfigured bed quilts. From Gallery Diet press release for The Sleeping Cowboy and Mary/Steven Christy Gast will show a pair …
Source
Source 2012 [NAME] Publications “Source, with transcendental passages of analogy and allegory is an invitation to a reality of Americana, slightly off, but …
Out of Place
Gallery Diet, Miami 2012 From Gallery Diet press release This new body of work investigates the collision that occurs when two notions …
Self Portrait as the Barefoot Mailman
Collection of Pérez Art Museum Miami Neither pirates, nor sharks, nor crocodiles shall keep these carriers from their appointed rounds. Self Portrait …
Herbert Hoover Dyke
de la Cruz Collection, Miami 2010 From the de la Cruz Collection press release A tap dancer manipulates the literal point of …
Batty Cave
2010 From the Miami Art Museum press release In this three-channel video installation, the artist uses rocks, scraps of wood and bits …
The Earth We Inhabit
We Live Inside the World 5 minutes 2010 Hollow Earth propaganda! The video’s point of departure is an assertion by a 19th …
Potato Salad Hill
Engines roaring, Jeepers conquer Potato Salad Hill while spectators watch in the right foreground from atop a building sprayed with Utopian graffiti. …
Canario
Canario 2008 Site-specific video & performance Created in collaboration with Nicolas Lobo and Psychic Youth Video light show and live psychedelic music …
Mounted Horse Men
Mounted Horse Men 2008 Video edition on USB stick Part sculpture, part accessory, part documentary, Mounted Horse Men is a primitive tool …
Moab Video Project
Moab Video Project Throughout 2008 I organized a video program called Moab Video Project on MAC21, a small cable station broadcasting in …
Contemplating a Stream
Contemplating a Stream 2007 Performance for live webcast Inspired by Whitman, this performance was broadcast via live web stream. Contemplating a Stream …
Amazonian News Network
Amazonian News Network 2005 video, 5 minutes 45 seconds Amazonian News Network explores the Female Soldier archetype, representing both gender transgression and …
Female Soldier Ballads
Female Soldier Ballads 2005 A cappella folk song cycle and screen printed broadsheets Female Soldier Ballads is a cycle of ballads about …
Lady Presidential Candidates Commemorative Plates
Lady Presidential Candidates Commemorative Plates 2004 & 2008 Repurposed ceramic plates, hand painted These plates are hand painted with portraits of some …
Left Mitten and the Great Denudation
Left Mitten and The Great Denudation 2004 Sculpture & performance Fabricated of silicon-coated ripstop nylon, Left Mitten is decked out like a …
Monster Tree
2003 Monster Tree is a sculpture and performance created in collaboration with Fabienne Lasserre for High Desert Test Sites 2 in Joshua Tree, CA. ” order_by=”sortorder” …