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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 self-evident. Perhaps they aren’t so self-evident after all. Thompson's current projects search for healing and agency in the face of opaque profit systems. This includes human relationship(s) with the (un)natural 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 Co...
