Visiting Artist Aidan Koch

The Dodd Galleries present Aidan Koch’s (American, b. 1988) solo exhibition Mountain Tongue, curated by the Lamar Dodd School of Art's Lindsey Reynolds, Associate Director of Research and Graduate Studies and Art Librarian.

Join Koch for her Visiting Artist and Scholar (VAS) Lecture, Tuesday, Aug 26 at 5:30pm in room S150. Koch will be in Athens and at the Dodd for several days hand drawing the opening sequence from her short story Man Made Lake as a wall work that will activate the exhibition in the Lupin Gallery. 
 
Since moving to the Mojave Desert in 2018, Aidan Koch has explicitly focused on ecological storytelling and non-human animal relationships. Working primarily in comics, Koch employs various installation methods to reformat the book into physical space. In Mountain Tongue, she asks, What is the language of the mountain? This installation works conceptually as a deconstructed comic, including characters, setting and text brought together through sculpture, animation, and the viewer’s engagement. Unlike a classic narrative, where human and animal characters are given protagonist roles with landscape acting as a backdrop, here the mountain is the agent of the story. In animating the mountain, Koch brings to life the interconnections between the static, sculptural characters and inverts geologic time. An accompanying book of written texts in poetic, fable form compliments the installation.