A few people have ordered stuff from my shop! It’s been cool seeing the pop-ups that I received money for these and then I don’t have to do anything. Art of Where handles the production and shipping, printing my designs onto their products and then going from their montreal shop to an anticipating customer.
It’s nice not having to print a bunch of stuff thinking it’s what people want and then being a sucker when it’s not.
Last Night, I created a painting with two other artists (Nathanael Card and Kaitlin McSweeney) for a fundraiser for The Flight Deck.
Process videos (to come).
It was neat spending three hours in the lobby of a local black box theatre painting a five foot by six foot canvas with two other painters while they were selling raffles.
There was a lot of action: while I petalled the whole time, Kaitlin and Nathanael, smeared, poured, flinged and stenciled, creating layers that became hidden by other layers.
The first hour of keep begin detach 2: yoko ono, before it cuts out… I should have put my phone into a charger before starting the live facebook event stream.
Anyways, super successful event. One of the attendees brought friends and family to celebrate art and his birthday as he read poems (audio recording to come).
I did a voice therapy piece. It is a great piece to start an event with because you get a little feeling of who is in the room, what kinds of experiences they’ve been having lately. More than one person listed therapy as either the best part of their week or the worst. There were a lot of people, so it’s interesting how the piece expands with the audience.
I anticipated a small turn out like the first keep begin detach and so I only printed 15 zines. It was an awkward moment to run out of zines: never again.
Also this keep begin detach had a lot more participation. I ran some activity through my zines which was a workbook inspired by Yoko Ono’s instruction poetry found in books: Grapefruit and Acorn
I was very surprised at the turnout and it was really interesting feeling a little overtaken by all the new faces. It was weird not knowing how interested or forced they felt to do the exercises. Overall, it was great to feel like I challenged some people into writing some instruction pieces through my timed prompts. Some shared afterwards, some did not.
Cassidy Barnes played I’m a Witch cover, and Fenner recited some japanese songs and did some japanese dance.
Here’s the zine for the show fluxuszine2 I hope to one day make a fluxus box and mass produce it and sell it. A fluxus box is full of instructions and props that go with the instructions for art-amusements!
You are currently reading this because I would like you to please keep it to yourself.
What do I mean?
I am tired of you and people like you saying that my art should be on a tee shirt, a postcard or a mural. I am doing what I want to be doing and if I ask your opinion, it’s because I believe your point of view is valuable in my current journey with art.
Art costs money to make. Unless you are commissioning something from me (money up front), I am not beholden to make my art consumable for you.
Thank you for reading this. Please, feel free to link to this when someone is hinting or outright telling you what you should do with your art.
$10 each ( $15 if I have to mail it to you :D ) 9” x 12” on 80# Matte paper handpainted with Dr Ph Martin’s concentrated radiant watercolor
That was the caption I put on it on my facebook photos album yesterday. Two were sold that day! Very cool.
Today, using a production company‘s design lab, I’ve added some products to my catalog! Check these out! These products can be interchanged with a different design (from above selection). Email me at katarinacountiss@gmail.com to start your order!
Sakura Square 16’’ by 16’’ Poly Chiffon $30 plus S&H
Green Scarf 16’’ by 72’’ Poly Chiffon $55 plus S&H
Santorini Tote (Lined) Navy vegan leather strap $56 plus S&H
Jung Mantis Day Tote with Blue 1.5’’ strap $45 plus S&H
Plum Origami Tote with Black Strap (33’’ long) $50 plus S&H
From the top clockwise: Michael Dooley played an electroacoustic live looping piece, Andrew Rose (read a poem I wrote) and myself on scatch, I had to include a still from the Rugrats Movie clip I started the show with (apparently Laurie Anderson is a voice for one of the babies. I couldn’t figure which tho.); Me doing voice therapy, moe and Cassidy Barnes doing a cover of Langauge is a Virus, everyone in the bookstore clapping along to Stevie’s Octopus Dance with Michael Johnson doing the sweet beats.
Here’s the playlist of the videos I played during the event.
Notable moments: I played a Tom Nunn Skatchbox–invented instrument– for the first time in public. I did my first duet cover with Cassidy Barnes. Debuted a new piece based off of Dance Therapy called Voice Therapy. I gave out some words to the attendees. The Fortune Bag: It’s — I have all of these shrinky dink words that I printed out and put in a bag. It’s like word tarot where I have them put intention into the draw and then I pull out three words and give them the words and try not to analyze what it might mean for them. And all the other moments were neat, too.
an example of the The Fortune Bag’s words. They can be made into jewelry. I like making them into mobiles.
(video below)
zine made for the event: contains quotes from Laurie Anderson’s heroes, excerpts from texts she’s inspired by, some reviews of her work and a poem by me inspired by her Duets on Ice!Laurie Anderson had a piece where she projected onto a big white dress. I got me one of those and threw some light on it! It started a mini photoshoot with the attendees– so FUNfor posterity
I’m excited for the next event, inspired by Yoko Ono!
Kismet Arts Tangent 