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BIO

Gabe Duggan (b. Buffalo, NY) has had residencies at Fish Factory (Stöðvarfjörður, IS), Sculpture Space Inc. (Utica, NY),
Praxis Fiber Workshop (OH), Cooler Ranch (NY), Landfalls (NY), the Musk Ox Farm (AK), Governors Island Art Fair (NY),
Ponyride (Knight Foundation Emerging Artist, MI), and Rob Dunn Lab (NCSU+NCMNS).

Awards: Juror's Prize at Art on the Trails by Sarah Montross, the Integrated Coastal Programs Coastal Fellowship (Coastal Studies Institute),
RCAA (ECU), Engagement and Outreach Scholars Academy (ECU), and project grants from the NC Arts Council.

An Associate Professor at East Carolina University they have also taught at the University of North Texas,
Georgia State University, and Penland School of Craft.



STATEMENT

My work simulates binary systems, drawing attention to interreliance between dichotomies by positioning grey areas in balanced tension.
Textile strategies, technology, and materials have been a reliable foundation for my work to reflect social, political, and historical implications of power.

I construct installations in three-dimensional space by applying principles of tension and repetition to post-consumer, and post-industrial materials.
These works range from intimate to significant in scale through material choice and context.

When performing with sound, image, or as image, I step into these roles directly inhabiting spaces of both lost and self-possessed agency.

Recent installations, WAS HERE (2022), RECOHERE (2021), EITHERWAY (2020), and no one knows (extent on site since 2020) use DSM Dyneema®,
a ballistic synthetic polymer, to draw out questions around permanence and perspective in public art.

VISKUBIT (2023) abandons media specificity altogether in exchange for use of the body as subtractive technology wielded upon the earth’s surface.
A mark is made by my mere presence in the space, regardless of intention for impact, or possibility of consent by receiving species.
This work inhabits a space experientially considered ‘off-grid’ though it theoretically can be documented via satellite.
Like desire paths or meditation labyrinths, VISKUBIT (loosely, 'bite of wisdom') exists through its use and is inevitably erased when untouched.

By building elaborate, inherently vulnerable systems, I render impermanence and precarity prominent, challenging perception and values of functionality in objects and ourselves.