kitschsf.com//allrightsdeserved.2010
kitschsf.com//allrightsdeserved.2010
September 2010
SPOON FULL OF SUGAR:
Recent Works by
Ana Belén Cantoni,
Kit Yi Wong,
Carissa Potter
Ana Belén Cantoni is a Fulbright scholar from Colombia in the second year of her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work deals with the notion of the self as something that is not given, but rather constructed. Her main interests are language and the architecture of the home, since they both work as shelters for the identity; she deals with these subjects by looking for the gaps in which the experience of losing ground occurs. Her practice is conceptually framed by Drawing. As she understands it, drawing is a matter of boundaries, and a line teaches us where one thing ends and another begins.
Kit Yi Wong a.k.a. Ali Wong is a MFA Candidate at the Yale University School of Art, a conceptual artist and an independent curator. She is interested in how the body occupies the space between cultures, and is obsessed with encountering the mysterious and the unknown. She constantly worries that the sky will fall down. Having worked as a teaching assistant for Tony Labat, she is strongly influenced by the way he thinks and cooks. www.GetMetoYale.com is her next move.
Carissa Potter
There is a time in the past when our future was the story I am telling you right now. I do know it could never have not happened if things didn’t occur just the way they did. A past-future tense.
Example A: If you hadn’t have slept with that other chick, I wouldn’t be breaking up with you now.
Example B: If I wasn’t so drunk at that bar last night, I would have asked her out, and we could be in love already. I would be living in her rent controlled apartment and saving up for a new lawn mower.
Example C: If my parents had only paid for me to have braces I would not be single and unemployed right now. I would be bragging to you about my one Gucci sweater and lunch last week with Andy Dick.
Sugar Trap, performance, 2010. (Left Image)
Other than talking about Art, people here talks about sex, a lot. In my culture, sex has long been a taboo in a traditional society and is not openly discussed
In summer, I was invited by an artspace in Hong Kong to do a performance. The curator said I could do anything related to the neighborhood and the community where the space is located.
A couple of blocks up on the same street as the space, is the red-light district of Hong Kong. I was interested in the interactions between the sex workers, the gangs that serve as their pimps, and the customers.
So in the picture, the customer was bargaining the price of having sex with me. End up the transaction was not done because my price is way too high.
Details From Ana Belén Cantoni’s installtion. Mine.2010
Top Left and Right: Stills from Kit Yi’s video Installation. Bottom left and Right: Image and description of Sugar Trap Performance.
Top Left: Carissa Potter’s Installation. I Only See You. 2010. Top and Bottom Right: Details from I Only See You.
Bottom Left: Detail from Sugar.
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