KADIST Portals Pathways and the Space Between us at EKU Giles

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Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us: EKU Giles Gallery

November 6

Thursday, November 6, 2025, 6-8 p.m.

Eastern Kentucky University (Burrier Building Porch)

Crabbe Street at 325 University Dr, Richmond, KY

Last stop Richmond, KY for Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us!

This collaboration with EKU Giles Gallery will activate the campus of Eastern Kentucky University on the Burrier Building Porch. Multidisciplinary artist, Zach Jett will DJ a conceptual set that will respond to the traveling exhibition through sound mixes that combine recorded field audio with minimal electronic sounds and rhythms to create a subtle, danceable atmosphere.

Sponsors: Taft Research Center and Blink

This event is free and open to the public.

Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us is an exhibition in collaboration with KADIST that explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and the temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River.

The exhibition explores placemaking, shapeshifting, and temporalities of Kentucky through the Ohio River. The river is a point of study and departure, its historical significance rooted in division and symbols of freedom. The river acts as both a border and a point of shared connection—the complexities of this contradiction are unique to Kentucky, revealing the nuances of placemaking and identity.

Thinking of movement, fluidity, ephemerality, and environmental activation, this exhibition consists of outdoor pop-up video exhibitions that take place throughout the state of Kentucky. The exhibition spans six venues across six cities in Kentucky, occurring once a month from June to November 2025. The traveling exhibition is composed of two videos and a soundscape that represent international and regional voices that interweave disruption and contemplation through placid yet subversive temporalities.

– Sso-Rha Kang Curator, The Carnegie

Zach Jett is a multidisciplinary artist based in Louisville, Kentucky. Drawing inspiration from the natural landscapes of the bluegrass, Zach explores ideas of boundaries, interconnectivity and consciousness through mixed soundscapes and photography. His sound mixes combine recorded field audio with minimal electronic sounds and rhythms to create a subtle, danceable atmosphere. Zach’s photographic work lies grounded in the printed image, presenting subjects in an ethereal light through alternative processes such as cyanotype. He has showcased sound mixes and visual work at fashion shows, art exhibitions and DIY music showcases.

Katinka Bock has a predilection for modest and natural materials like terracotta, wood, plaster, ceramic, leather and fabric. With a sort of delicate simplicity, she often associates these materials to found objects. For the artist, used materials hold a sense of something beyond their materiality. They are provocative because of the way in which they evoke deep, immediate emotions that precede conceptualisation. In her practice, Bock invests in the exhibition spaces and conceives her works in resonance. Just the same, she crafts a mental space in her work to subtly invite the spectator to reflect. Katinka Bock has been selected for artist residencies in France, USA, Germany and Italy at the Villa Medici, Rome in 2012-2013. In 2012 she was winner of the prestigious Fondation d’entreprise Ricard prize, France. In 2015 she received the Visual Arts Grant of the Fondacion Botin, Spain. She was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, France, and won the Prix de production 1% Marché de l’art, France.

Sora Kim is among Korea’s avant-garde artists portraying modern life conditions. She has been involved in many projects that are the result of collaborations with the socially dispossessed or through the participation of observers. By introducing personal relationships into her art, Kim proposes a new model and alternative to existing organizations and systems in our society. Sora Kim’s installations offer provocative and necessary explorations of the subjectivity of value and consumption. Sora Kim has exhibited her work internationally including the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, ArtSonje Center, Rodin Gallery (Seoul), BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, REDCAT Gallery (Los Angeles), Atelier Hermès (Seoul), Istanbul Biennial (2007), Busan Biennale (2006), Venice Biennale (2003, 2005) and Yokohama Triennale (2005) and Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló in Spain.

Britni Bicknaver received a BFA in 2005 from Art Academy of Cincinnati and an MFA in 2017 from University of Cincinnati, both located in Cincinnati, OH. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions including Third Annual Red Square Film and Video Show, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (2003); The History of the Universe Part One: In The Beginning, Museum Gallery/ Gallery Museum, Cincinnati, OH (2012); The Nothing That Is: A Drawing Show in Five Parts, The Carnegie, Covington, KY (2017); and City Under Exposure, The Main Branch of the Public Library of Hamilton County, Cincinnati, OH (2022). Bicknaver currently lives and works in Cincinnati, OH.

Brianna Kelly is a multi-media artist, musician, community song leader, and puppet apprentice living in Cincinnati, OH with her spouse and dog named Slam Dunk. She has spent the last decade in various roles exploring the intersection of the arts, contemplative spirituality, and community building, while performing and touring in many bands in the Cincinnati music scene. She is currently finishing her debut solo album to be released in 2025.

The EKU Giles Gallery will present this project iteration on the campus of Eastern Kentucky University on the Burrier Building Porch, facing Crabbe Street at 325 University Dr, Richmond, KY. Free parking is available after 5PM in the Crabbe Street Lot, directly across from the Campbell Building.