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LiVE WORK is pleased to announce its first project with San Francisco artist Katrina Lamb.
Katrina Lamb is known for works that pulsate with raw energy and authenticity. She came from a theatre background, trained classically in music, and attended the New Genres MFA program at the San Francisco Art Institute. She lives out her intense personal and existential issues constantly through her work, which itself navigates through the entanglement of these different genres. This project comes at a juncture of her life where she ‘feel a strong and rather urgent need to vacate my life altogether to the greatest extent possible without losing everything.’
For the week of 3/15 – 3/21, Katrina will be occupying LiVE WORK space entirely, to ‘work through a series of gestures of sorts…to concentrate on doing these actions..to explore different personas or tasks.’ She chose LiVE WORK because it would provide her a ‘domestic space but is as empty as possible.’ Due to the exploratory nature of the project, she is not clear about exactly what she will be doing. But she did mention that she would bring a long piano wire, folk songs her parents gave her, a guitar, and a memory of a cabaret that she intended to re-enact.
‘Grossly repetitive, the tasks may be partly a way to account for the time whilst avoiding going through the rote motions of the lists of activities that generally occupy and whitewash the hours outside of work.’
At the end of the week, on Sunday March 21 at 2pm, LiVE WORK will be open for public viewing of the video and photographic outcome of Lamb’s week-long self-exploration, along with other ephemera. More details to come when the event approaches.
Katrina’s works have been shown at YBCA’s Bay Area Now 5, New Langton Arts, Root Division, and the Lab, among others.
LiVE WORK project space promotes experimental works in the areas of performance, live events, theatrical works, situational interventions, and other time-based works. It is particularly interested in works that do not yet have a clean category and challenge the established practices. It creates an environment that fosters creativity by emphasizing the process. It also provides mini-residencies (with a kitchen and a bedroom) to support special works that require the artist to be on site for a period of time.
