Artistic Statement

I am a writer, performer, and curiosity. I utilize text to create performances, performance to create text, and both to create responses that provoke inquiry and participation. My work as a writer and visual artist explores myth, reality, history, and the future in how we form identity, community, and interpersonal connection. Humor, movement, and memory mix to invite active questioning of societal roles—most directly the separation of audience and artist. I have worked as a playwright, deviser, and dramaturg through this framework.

My writing practice takes poetic and fractured narrative form. Through cutting, sewing, collaging, nesting, and other practices, I reestablish paper’s use and often collaborate with others to provide responsive text. Informative and parodic techniques take a central role in my work to maintain a balance between personal insight and audience engagement.

My practice engages collaboration in multiple ways: working directly with other artists as a collaborator and curator, receiving written response to my work from audience and other performers, and using collective memory as material. A method of creative itinerancy allows me to be responsive to others’ work and to develop my own with more rigor.

Kevin Sparrow

Artistic Statement

I am a writer, performer, and curiosity. I utilize text to create performances, performance to create text, and both to create responses that provoke inquiry and participation. My work as a writer and visual artist explores myth, reality, history, and the future in how we form identity, community, and interpersonal connection. Humor, movement, and memory mix to invite active questioning of societal roles—most directly the separation of audience and artist. I have worked as a playwright, deviser, and dramaturg through this framework.

My writing practice takes poetic and fractured narrative form. Through cutting, sewing, collaging, nesting, and other practices, I reestablish paper’s use and often collaborate with others to provide responsive text. Informative and parodic techniques take a central role in my work to maintain a balance between personal insight and audience engagement.

My practice engages collaboration in multiple ways: working directly with other artists as a collaborator and curator, receiving written response to my work from audience and other performers, and using collective memory as material. A method of creative itinerancy allows me to be responsive to others’ work and to develop my own with more rigor.