Puppet Lab (2023) at Elmhurst Sculpture Garden
A one day Latin American adoptee Puppet lab in Queens, NY
Puppet Lab (2022) at Estudio, Brooklyn
Community and passerbyers were invited to voice two puppets in conversation on-screen via an i-pad that provided context and prompts along with split-screen puppet video footage. The voice overs were recorded. The event took place on the sidewalk entrance of Estudio, a bipoc centered community artspace.
Transport Me (2019) at ReUse Room, SF
An interactive artwork created in collaboration with visual artist Jon Levy-Warren
A telephone booth, painted by Jon Levy-Warren and outfitted with an old tape recorder, swing, wallpaper, carpeting, and found object assemblage by Kat Geng, welcomed people to swing as they listened to or left voice recordings. Prompts were given to guests to share their stories about objects, conversations or stories that have transported them through time.
The Assemblage Line (2019)
at CounterPulse, SF
Workshop presented at Counterpulse (CA) in the Tenderloin on multiple occasions as part of a Counterpulse Artist Activator grant, as well as at Art Night SF (CA). The workshop - open, and free to the public- provided participants with found objects, markmaking tools and dowels and wire for easy assemblage in order to create sculptures that expressed their own narratives.
Sip, Sculpt, Slurp: a Stone Soup–inspired soirée (2018) at Royal Nonesuch Gallery, CA
in collaboration with Forage Kitchen Founder Iso Rabins
In a blend of the visual and culinary arts, artist Kat Geng and co-founder of Forage Kitchen, Iso Rabins, each prepared a mouth-watering soup in collaboration with guests. Geng and artist Robin Birdd created a sculptural readymade broth while Rabins built an edible savory stock of ingredients, found and foraged, by the guests. All guests were invited to participate in or observe the process and enjoy the end results. This evening of shared meal making was in conjunction with Lost In The Found, a solo exhibition by Kat Geng at Royal Nonesuch Gallery in Oakland, CA.
If I Had a Bathroom (2016) at Parking Lot Art Fair, SF
With performance by Katrina Goldsaito
The installation, If I had a Bathroom, was created in a 16 ft rented box truck and existed in its full form for a total of 8 hours at The Parking Lot Art Fair in San Francisco.
After 4.5 years of moving approximately every two weeks while living as a guest in a steadily rotating queue of stranger's homes, I became very accustomed to making myself comfortable in other people’s spaces. During the course of this six year nomadic life as a live-in petsitter, bathrooms had struck me as a particularly intimate and revealing private space within a house. In an attempt to reverse the roles, I created my own intimate space and invited strangers in to take a seat on the toilet, don a ‘bathtub suit’ and recline in the tub, or peruse the assortment of personal items dispersed within the space. All while performance artist, Katrina Goldsaito strummed her guitar and sang with her sweet and soothing voice when the mood struck, as the resident unperformer of the bathroom.
A number of detachable items were velcroed alongside the tub for bath takers to play with. Conversations organically grew around the idea of home and intimacy.
All photos by Schmoo Theune