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Katie Holten CLUSTER
Katie Holten is
organizing CLUSTER (perennial) in an apartment in Queens, New York, from
the 28th May to the 4th June. Her ambition is to
provide an opportunity to create new and relevant works that use almost
nothing as the site of production. CLUSTER is an ongoing project without a
strict framework – an apartment in Queens, NY will become the starting
point for potentially unlimited artworks in all shapes, sizes, etc. And
there is always the possibility that certain projects will, like seeds,
grow over the longer term. CLUSTER will be invisible or inhabit ‘other’
spaces such as rumors, fliers, rooftops, holes, gardens, etc.
Katie Holten
will make a hand drawn flier for CLUSTER to be distributed around ICA. In
this way the project will exist also in the flier and in the imagination
of the very faraway people that will read it in London.
Katie Holten tattoos |
Katie Holten's Cluster fliers |
Katie Holten is
an artist and a compulsive wanderer. Having always been peripatetic, her
practice unfolds like a conversation as works evolve in response to
fleeting and contingent circumstances. Currently she is living in New York
on a Fulbright Scholarship awarded for her research into art in the public
realm. In 2003 she represented Ireland at the
Venice Biennale with Laboratorio della Vigna, a project that
transformed the Irish Pavilion into an alternative cultural venue for the
city of Venice. Laboratorio della Vigna existed as a physical site,
as a series of pamphlets, as a residency and through organised public
events. It was a network of ideas configured during a fifty-day stay in
the city. Using simple technologies, easily transported materials and
high-street services to make her work on site, Holten’s approach
emphasises communication, the exchange of information and an enthusiasm
for diversity in her engagement with other creative networks. She is also
the self styled director of the TÜP Institute, founded in 1997 as an
artist led initiative organising art projects, education and training
projects to encourage access to the arts.
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