Glenn Kaino: A Shout Within a Storm

The chameleon-esque practice of Japanese-American artist Glenn Kaino (b. 1972) utilizes sculpture, spectacle, video, and performance to convey political restlessness and the uncanny blurring of news with fallacy. As a former street artist, magician, web designer, theatre producer, and chief creative officer for the pioneering digital music startup Napster, Kaino has become celebrated for his re-combinative approach known as kit-bashing. Developing his practice at the height of the Internet boom, Kaino was part of a generation of artists who rethought the model-maker's process of assembling standard structures into hybrid forms. His 2014 installation Tank integrates fragments of a decommissioned military tank into a series of aquarium environments. Published in connection with Kaino's exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, this mid-career survey of the Los Angeles-based artist spans the last decade of his enigmatic work, including his collaborations with marine biologis