“Red Room”
Kat Clarke
30 Sept → 22 Oct 2011

This mixed media installation will explore the idea that others define a sense of self. Clarke’s work traverses the two distinct worlds that we simultaneously inhabit: the external persona and the internal psyche.

Kat Clarke acquires data in the form of manipulated and selected biographical and autobiographical interviews and activities to accoutrements explore authentic and truthful experiences. Through using the audience, interview participants, material and spatial relations, the viewer’s body is the site in which physical negotiations through the installation are made palpable and the social discomfort of an enmeshed cultural entrapment is felt.

The projected video reflects awkward relations by framing particular areas of the subjects, rendering them with no identity. The framing in this instance brings the subject into sameness regardless of size and gender. Identities are shown as fluid leakages seeping through the gaps of the highly restricted and manipulated structure employed.