Candace Thompson

Candace Thompson is a media maker and land steward fascinated by the feedback loops of ecology economics culture history media and daily human interaction They make video audio web and social practice projects that examine and challenge the truths we purportedly hold to be selfevident Perhaps they arent so selfevident after all Thompsons current projects search for healing and agency in the face of opaque profit systems This includes human relationships with the unnatural world vis a vis local food webs phone addiction and the corporate surveillance state and rituals of healing that locate personal and intergenerational trauma as somatic heirlooms Recent institutional relationships include More Art Residency Unlimited Oak Spring Garden Foundation Brooklyn Arts Council NYFA the Urban Soil Institute Cycle X Burlington City Arts Wave Hill and Swale House As a freelance video producer and editor they have made music videos documentaries and experimental narratives Thompsons short nonfiction films The Next Epoch Seed Library and Body Map have screened at various US festivals As a performer they have worked in theatre voiceover and television most notably on HBOs High Maintenance and with artist Pablo Helguera at BAM and the Guggenheim They hold an MFA in Integrated Media Art from Hunter College and are the Park Manager of Stuy Cove Park a 2 acre public food forest in lower Manhattan