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Portals, Pathways, and the Space Between Us: KMAC

July 19, 2025

In collaboration with KMAC Contemporary Art Museum (Louisville KY)

Event Date and Time:

Saturday, July 19, 2025 from 9:00 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Address: 

Big Four Bridge, “under the disc”
129 W River Road, Louisville, KY, United States

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 Louisville exhibition includes a site-specific, water themed projection from Stivan Widick & David Jester as dreaMachine transmissions, along with a performance by the Louisville based sound and music project Flanger Magazine.

The Louisville exhibition will be presented within Waterfront Park at the base of the Big Four Bridge, under the “disc” of the pedestrian walkway. Crossing the Ohio River, connecting Waterfront Park in Downtown Louisville to Southern Indiana, the Big Four Bridge was constructed in 1895, providing rail access for freight and passengers. The bridge operated until 1969 when it was decommissioned with the ramps removed several years later. For decades it was known as the Bridge That Goes Nowhere. Since 2014, pedestrians have been able to walk and access the bridge from both sides in Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana.

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About KMAC:

KMAC is Louisville’s premier educational contemporary art museum in historic downtown on Museum Row.

Through exhibitions, education, and outreach, KMAC works to fulfill our mission of connecting people to art and creative practice.

Local Artists:

dreaMachine transmissions is a collaborative duo comprised of artists Stivan Widick & David Jester. Widick is a cinematographer, mixed reality experience creator and founding owner of Reference Frame Motion Picture Services. Stivan has worked on award-winning short films, commercials, music videos, features, television pilots, live events, and fashion films, released variously to theatrical, broadcast, and streaming platforms. He currently lives and works between Louisville and New York and is attached to projects to be shot in Malta, Romania, Thailand, and Senegal. He is the director of photography and co-creator of The Cradle: Senegal, a six-episode documentary series committed to telling the story of Senegal and the continent of Africa, and her far-reaching impact on the rest of the world. Jester is an artist also working in film and projection. Other collaborations include working with Reference Frame Motion Picture Services and Mimic Visuals, specializing in Visual Arts, Projection Mapping, VFX, Immersive Experiences, 3D content creation, and Video Editing. For the exhibition, the duo will create a site-specific, water-themed and audio reactive work of projection art.

Flanger Magazine is a Louisville based project initiated by Christopher Bush.

In 2022 he released the collaborative album After the Bend, an audio journey that aimed to link the fluctuations of floating along a tributary like the Ohio River with an undulating, multi-current listening experience. Among its six tracks, including “Reservoir,” “Falls Fountain Removed,” and “Sympathies for the River,” the compositions integrated strings, wind instruments, percussion, and synthesizers, subtly blending folk, Americana, chamber music, electronica, and jazz in a suite of pastoral, ethereal, and kaleidoscopic pieces. Primary collaborator on the record and the live performance is Jim Marlowe, producer and musician from other projects including, Equipment Pointed Ankh, Tropical Trash, Sapat, and Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band.

Traveling Artists:

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.