STATEMENT
My ongoing practice encompasses interdisciplinary installation art, hand-sewn fabric assemblage, performance and socially engaged community ritual. As a yogi and artist, it is through my Art practice that I began to develop a modern sense of the spiritual anchored in archetypal female power. Probing the archetypal realm for intersectional, intergenerational and ancestral healing, my installations, wearables and happenings are an Art form bloated with the genital poetry of the Goddess. A multifaceted practice dedicated to the resurgence of the archetypal Great Goddess and Dark Feminine, one aim of my work is restoring to sacred status women’s genitalia and symbols of fertility.
My textile works are hand-sewn, fabric based sculptural pieces made from recycled materials that have multiple uses as ritual talismans, wearables, ecstatic birth blankets, dreamcatchers and traveling altars. Functioning as would yantras - they crystallizing my relatedness to all that is, the woven, devouring nature of reality. More immersive installations become experimental spaces for ritual, play and performance for creatives inclined to the sacred arts.
My recent body of work involves an in-depth visual study of the outer-lying feminist asteroids, presented online as astro-memes, physically as astro-feminist 'pillow pictures' and performative, socially-engaged pop-up astro-oracles. Initially the focus is upon seven archetypal energies associated with a decolonized queer asteroid cosmology. The asteroid’s expansive non-binary trajectory represents a 'quantum leap' for human consciousness, facilitating evolution from individual ego understanding to collective consciousness. Before the discovery of Asteroids, the only feminine significators in astrology were Venus and the Moon. When white men looked at the stars they saw themselves as heroes and villains – appointing a two mere planets to the feminine, expecting neutered versions of the Moon and Venus to hold down the whole female half. Enter Grecian “sprung from a man’s head” Athena. Athena’s motherless origin epitomizes the misogyny of Greek myth, while asteroid Athena represents the movement of soul-development toward androgyny balancing male-female polarities from within. Additional asteroids explored include Ceres (Divine Mother aspect, unconditional love, nurture, attachment-style & the Pathology of Loss); Lilith (Nature Malefic Anti-heroine, seductress, demon, shadow-work, rewilding); Vesta (Keeper of the Inner Flame, autonomous sex for inner spiritual union, sisterhood, service); Juno (Guardian of marriage, childbirth and conflict resolution); Hygeia (Self-care marrying science and sensitivity, Asteroid of Holistic Health, self-empowerment, purification and feminine healing arts); Haumea (Fertility, Nature Consciousness, trial-by-fire, creativity, transformation, seasonal tidal rhythms); Gonggong (Trickster/Cosmic Mischief Maker) and Chariklo (Graceful Spinner associated with boundary work, feminine receptivity and embodiment, sacred space, astral travel, healing, wife of wounded healer Chiron)
ABOUT KATIE
Katie Cercone Or Nah is an artist, scribe, priextexx & spiritual gangsta hailing from the blessed coast. Cercone has performed or shown work in exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum, Bronx Museum, Dallas Contemporary, Momenta Art, C24 Gallery, Changjiang Museum China, Dodge Gallery and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. In 2015 she was a J.U.S.F.C. Fellow for the U.S.-Japan Exchange Program in Tokyo and was awarded the Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice with her feminist collective Go! Push Pops. Cercone is adjunct faculty at the School of Visual Arts where she teaches GENDER TROUBLE in the Visual & Critical Studies Department. A pioneer of Hip Hop Yoga Katie was awarded the Franklin Furnace Award for performance art in 2020.
PRESSDazed, MILK, Interview, Japan Times, Huffington Post, ART 21, Hyperallergic, PAPER, Art Fag City, Washington Post & Art Net TV among others
CURATORIAL
Momenta Art, KARST (UK), Cue Art Foundation, Local Project, NurtureArt & The West Chelsea Festival of Art
PUBLICATIONS
ART PAPERS, White Hot, Posture Mag, Brooklyn Rail, Hysteria, Bitch Magazine, Utne Reader, N.Paradoxa.
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