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| Marie Christine Katz | |
Born in Sierre, Switzerland in 1960. |
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| About the Artist | |
My work explores themes of quest, identity and transcendence through maps of physical and felt experience, primarily within an urban environment. I’m intrigued by others’ routines, recollections and rituals as I chart their journeys toward nourishment, love, bonding and memory over time. |
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Roadkills and Other Casualties
2006 |
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| At various locations throughout the city, and at different times of the year, (one morning for each season), I staged a performance. It consists of myself lying on the pavement. Sometimes very well dressed and sometimes dressed as if I am living on the street. Hiding in a car nearby, a cameraperson is filming people’s reactions to my lying down on the sidewalk. I have a hidden microphone so that the verbal interactions with pedestrians and the sound of the traffic are recorded as well. This is to be seen as an installation, running continuously with at least two screens, one showing the well-dressed person the other the person disguised as a homeless person.
Total running time 1hour 25min 2006
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Happy Birthday
2005/2007 |
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| Video still from the performance video HAPPY BIRTHDAY, 2005/2007, a single voice is layered to form a party of multiple voices.I crawls about, at first setting up a tablecloth on the floor in anticipation of the event. We don’t know if this is my first birthday celebration or my last. During the course of the party increasingly the anxiety builds up, realizing as I do that she is either happily alone or alarmingly left out. The expectation that others will arrive quickly dissipates as I, like a bad child, dabs at my cake, destroys it and eventually paints on top of the chocolate with cans of Williamsburg paint, left-over from my earlier years as a painter. Running time: 8:40. |
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The cup project
1996/1999 |
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| Between 1996-1999, I collected 128 cups from New York City’s homeless population. The installation also includes fifteen empty spaces for people who
wouldn’t give up their cup when asked. Throughout the process of creating this work, I paid $1.00 for each donation, reversing the process of the traditional pan-handling
agreement. At times, when I would tell a homeless person what the project was about, that it was for art, she would be asked to give $2.00. If a cup wasn’t given, she would give the person a dollar anyway.
Throughout the project, I kept a journal, recording my travels and the stories she heard.
Some homeless people refused to sell their cup because they were fearful I would cast a voodoo spell on them or they didn’t want to sell their “lucky cup.” The wall installation consists of paper, plastic and metal cups, filling a space that is approximately 152cm wide x 190cm high. The bottom of each cup has the name and date of birth of the participants in their own handwriting.
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Maps of Displacement
2001/2006 |
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| Maps of Displacement includes: Voices of Displacement, Universal, Journal of Displacement and the video Still Here. Voices of Displacement and Maps of Displacement are based on interviews I did with displaced New Yorkers after 9/11 when they lost their homes or had to temporarily move. A map charted the route of a journey taken between the time they left home to the time they were permitted to return home and was then sewn onto silk gauze scrims draped across the installation. The stories, told in multiple languages, are heard on speakers across the installation space, echoing the confusion and unknown quality of that day. Universal, created later in 2005, began by asking people who spoke different languages to select one or several sentences from the previous project, Participants would then speak these responses in their own language, further displacing the “displacement”. This process emphasized the fact that being displaced is a universal experience. I also kept a journal throughout the project, with notes and drawings. Maps of Displacement is the title of the entire project and was created between 2001 and 2006. The video, Still Here runs as a loop. From 2003-2006, the combined images were assembled as an installation along with images of water and earth. Images were layered and superimposed along with selected sounds that formed a series of stories related to the experience of 9/11. |
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The foot project
2008 |
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| The foot project is a performance that creates an environment where strangers living in the streets are taken care of. |
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I am terrified of loosing you
2008 |
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| Room Installation that includes sounds, performance, video Clothes are, over time, thrown pell-mell on the white dance surface floor then outlined in red pen. Here and there, you will find a gathering of leaves, nail polish, old rusty nails, and wool. On one of the room corners, an old pair of jeans is stapled upside down to the wall. Drawings are connected with threads that move into the space to the other wall. A long sheet of white gauze is draping down from the ceiling, one corner dipping into a large container of black ink. During the performance, the artist wears a hand knitted green dress that is connected to a wire-weight attached to the wall. She gathers shaven hair dust and attempts to contain it within a sculptural vessel, made of very thin silver wire. The dust seeps through. The closing of the performance consists of the artist very slowly pouring ink onto the top of the gauze sheet, resulting in ink dripping/splashing all over the floor. When the artist exits the room, the dress, still anchored to the wall, is pulled off of her. In addition, there will be photographic images and projected video loops, shot during the initial in-studio installation preparation, present within the space of the performance. The floor material is later cut into various shapes, which will then become re-attached following a binding pattern reminiscent to that of corsets, the threading inconsistently laced, sometimes loose and other times tight, thus creating a tension. |
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I am terrified of losing you
2008 |
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| Room Installation that includes sounds, performance, video Clothes are, over time, thrown pell-mell on the white dance surface floor then outlined in red pen. Here and there, you will find a gathering of leaves, nail polish, old rusty nails, and wool. On one of the room corners, an old pair of jeans is stapled upside down to the wall. Drawings are connected with threads that move into the space to the other wall. A long sheet of white gauze is draping down from the ceiling, one corner dipping into a large container of black ink. During the performance, the artist wears a hand knitted green dress that is connected to a wire-weight attached to the wall. She gathers shaven hair dust and attempts to contain it within a sculptural vessel, made of very thin silver wire. The dust seeps through. The closing of the performance consists of the artist very slowly pouring ink onto the top of the gauze sheet, resulting in ink dripping/splashing all over the floor. When the artist exits the room, the dress, still anchored to the wall, is pulled off of her. In addition, there will be photographic images and projected video loops, shot during the initial in-studio installation preparation, present within the space of the performance. The floor material is later cut into various shapes, which will then become re-attached following a binding pattern reminiscent to that of corsets, the threading inconsistently laced, sometimes loose and other times tight, thus creating a tension. |
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| Education and biography | |
| EDUCATION 2004-2004 Final Cut Pro Sound and Video Study 2003-2005 Theater/Performance Study- The Bruce Ornstein Theater School 2002 Theater/Performance Study- New Acting Co. 1990-1993 New York Studio School, New York City. Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Summer 1993 Vermont Studio Center, New York. Artist-in-Residence Summer 1992 Vermont Studio Center, New York. Artist-in-Residence 1989-1990 Empire State College, New York City. B.A. in Art and Psychology 1988-1989 Vera List Center at The New School, New York City. Certificate in Art Therapy 1985-1988 The New School, New York City. Drawing and Photography GROUP EXHIBITIONS Spring 2007 L’Eau et les Reves; Galerie Kamchatka, Paris, France Winter 2006 Personal Geographies; Hunter/Times Sq. Gallery, New York City Fall 2006 Cheminement; Galerie Duque & Pirson, Bruxelles Spring 2006 Studio Visit; Exit Art, New York City Winter 2005-2006 Horsefeathers Etc… Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City Fall 2005 Traffic; Exit Biennial II, New York City Winter 2005 The Other America; Exit Art, New York City Winter 2005 The Continuous Mark; NYSS, New York City Spring 2004 Le dessus des cartes; Iselp, Bruxelles, Belgium Fall 2003 Motion Studies; LMCC, New York City Fall 2003 Mapping It Out; The Work Space, New York City Spring 2003 Alumni Show; New York Studio School Gallery, New York City Winter 2003 Maps and Spirit; Tenri Cultural Institute, New York City Fall 2002 Maps and Dispersion; Aramona Studio, New York City Fall 2002 In Response; Marymount Manhattan College, New York City Summer 2002 Ground Zero; Zona Cero Multimedia Exhibition, The Drama Loft at Pine Wood, East Hampton Summer 2002 Maps & Voices of Displacement; Art Frenzy Festival, Queens Council on the Arts, New York Spring 2002 Maps; American Thread Gallery, New York City Winter 2001-2002 The Aftermath of the 9/11 Tragedy; Bronx River Art Center (BRAC), New York Winter 2001-2002 Reaction 9/11; Exit Art, New York City Winter 2000-2001 Justice into Peace; Corpus Christi Church, New York City Winter 1999 Alumni Show; New York Studio School Gallery, New York City Fall 1998 Friends; 55 Mercer Gallery, New York City Spring 1998 Art and Language; The Mariboe Gallery, NJ Winter 1998 Small Works; Washington Square East Gallery, New York City Summer-Fall 1997 Works on Paper; Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts Winter 1996 Alumni Show. New York Studio School Gallery, New York City Summer 1995 Medium Rare; The 6th Annual Roundtable Exhibition, The National Arts Club, New York City Winter 1994-1995 Emerging Painters; The Painting Center, New York City SOLO EXHIBITIONS Spring 2002 Tribeca Open Artist Studio Tour (T.O.A.S.T.) Summer 1994 Maps of Displacement; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Winter 1993 Open Studio; International Studio Program, New York City Winter 1993 New York Studio School, New York City AWARDS AND GRANTS 1993 The List Scholarship, New York Studio, New York City PUBLICATIONS 2005 PerFORMance over Function 2005 Lexususpectus on Walking 1997 Empire State College Calendar |
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