Eleanor Kipping. Photo by Nathan Dumas.

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Embark on a self-guided journey through a digital archive of images, text, and video mined and collected by 2023 Artist-in-Residence Eleanor Kipping for the development of their solo multimedia performance, [transmission]. Their work integrates the notion of “virus as other”, at the intersection of public health, politics, and stigma, and through an exploration of Western media, political speech, public persuasion, and propaganda.

For this virtual program, a desktop or laptop computer is highly recommended, as participants will access and manipulate these materials in real time.


Eleanor Kipping (she/they) is a Black Queer Brooklyn-based Artist, Educator and Arts Administrator, originally from Maine. Her multidisciplinary practice lies at the intersection of performance, installation, and lens-based media and image making. Her work explores the othering of viruses at the intersection of race, gender, class, and place with specific concentration on HIV. Through the examination and deconstruction of historical and contemporary narratives, she is interested in the public, private, and civic negotiations of race, gender, in addition to the effect and practice of violence and surveillance. She has been awarded residencies at the Lunder Institute for American Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. She is currently a 2023 CPR – Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence. Her work has been exhibited at The Shed, Portland Museum of Art, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Yellow Fish Durational Performance Festival, and more. She is a Media Instructor at BRIC, the Marketing Manager at Hi-ARTS, and the Co-Founder of Camp El, a Maine-based artist retreat.

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