Kismet Arts Tangent

On the heels of the success of Potato Topos at the SF Fringe Festival, a group of artists (re)formed. They have had a lot of collaboration in the past and have solidified (again) into an entity with a new name. Formerly known as Andomifevin, Kismet Arts Tangent is working to create programming of fantastic performance art for the East Bay Arts Scene and the World.

Kismet Arts Tangent uses authentic movement to generate experimental performance art that relies on trust, autonomy, and openness.

Kismet Arts Tangent
Co-artists since 2017
Current members
Katarina Countiss, founder/project director
Andrew G. Rose, cherished participant
Kevin Corcoran

Katarina Countiss
Katarina Countiss is a surrealist. Katarina’s ongoing projects include the Kismet Arts Tangent productions and Kat’s Zine Club. She studied Communication at the University of Washington, Graphic Design at the Seattle Central Creative Academy, and Improv at Comedy Sportz, Seattle. Past projects include hosting a variety of community events: backyard shows, art nights, music jams, online workshops, and open mics. Her values include community, accessibility, and transparency. Her aesthetic themes include romance, symbolism, and mystical elements.

Fenner

Fenner is a Theater artist and teacher dedicated to studying and embodying enduring forms of theater; melding them to new forms and generations of artists. They thrive empowering people young and old to be expressive, generous and joyful in their unique experiences through theater arts. They collaboratively create award winning theater like ‘Potato Topos’ (Best of SF Fringe 2022)  ‘The Boy who Cried Naked’ (above ground festival)  and ‘The Wet Side of the Lake’ (sf international arts festival)
Pedagogically rooted in Kyogen and Noh theater, viewpoints, suzuki, butoh, clown, and bouffon, Fenner received a BA in Theater and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and later trained in physical theater and devising at Dell Arte International.

Andrew G. Rose
Andrew Rose writes, paints, dances, makes kites, music, short films, videogames, and presentations in Oakland.

Kevin Corcoran

Kevin Corcoran works with sound through percussion and place.
As a percussionist he emphasizes texture, friction, sympathetic vibration, sustained tones and the use of found materials. Improvisation is crucial to his practice as generative method and non-hierarchical exchange of ideas.
In his fieldwork and research projects, tensions between land use and disuse, infrastructure and open space, contamination, weathering, and remediation guide place-based practices of recording sound, image, and text.
Based in San Francisco, Kevin collaborates across disciplines with musicians, dancers, filmmakers, writers and visual artists. He has performed since the early 2000s in North America, Europe, and East Asia, exhibited gallery work in California and Taiwan, and published internationally on small imprints dedicated to experimental music.
Since 2015 he is co-founder and co-organizer of the Re:Sound audiovisual performance series taking place on the decommissioned Mare Island naval base in Vallejo as a project of multicity collectivity.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023: Protobotany, an experimental performance art at 2727 California St., Berkeley, CA
2021: Pluot Season, an outdoor performance art event at a residential backyard, Oakland, CA
2019: Chrysalis, a dance-theater piece/ visual arts gallery at DIRT, Oakland, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024: Wetside of the Lake, a devised theater play at The San Francisco International Arts Festival at Studio 210, San Francisco, CA
2023: psychobotany, a dance-theater piece at Psychobotanikon Equinox Edition, New Mission Yoga, San Francisco, CA
2022: Potato Topos, a devised theater play at SF Fringe Festival, Exit Theatre, San Francisco, CA
2020: Obsolescent Woods, a dance-theater piece, at Fort Nite, Beauty Supply, Oakland, CA
2018: psychobotany, a dance-theater piece at Planthaus, Martial Arts, Oakland, CA
2017: psychobotany, a dance-theater piece at SF Fringe Festival, Exit Theatre, San Francisco, CA

Awards

2022: Best of Fringe, SF Fringe Festival, Exit Theatre, San Francisco, CA