Aaron Henderson’s videos and installations attempt to break down the ways that humans activate gesture. Recent projects examine the personal, cultural and political ramifications of all action, from intimate gestures to displays of super-human acrobatics. Well acquainted with movement, he threw himself into walls and off of platforms for STREB Extreme Action, an acrobatic performance company from 2002-6. He also designed projections for this and other projects which have been presented at ICA Boston, the International Festival of Art & Ideas (New Haven, CT), Wolf Trap (Vienna, Virginia), Bumbershoot (Seattle, Washington), the Oriente Occidente Festival (Verona & Trento, Italy), the Festival Paris and many other theaters, colleges and festivals across the country. These projects were aided by NYSCA and Creative Capital MAP grants.
Aaron co-founded LOSTWAX, an East Coast company creating fusions of performance and video, and edited and founded the International Thought Exchange, a now defunct mail art organization.