Emily Katrencik
image: "to take the building in one's teeth"
Detail from documentation of performance "consuming architecture" 2001
BIOGRAPHY
Emily Katrencik was born in 1975 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and lives and works in New York City. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Science in Visual Studies from M.I.T.
ARTISTS' STATEMENT
Katrencik's work takes on the main space of social and built architecture, asking the question, "can we engage architecture to counter its consumption of us?" and addresses the interstitial systems of both the social and built space-their potentials and failures as psychological and livable space and the individual's ability or disability to act because of the codes that form these spaces. Recently her work incorporates real life into projects by creating a discourse between the two. She holds a Bachelors degree in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute and a Masters of Science in Visual Studies from M.I.T. in 2001.
“I slip between boundaries. My work rides a boundary between art and life. I place myself on this porous edge, as I place myself into the interstices of buildings and place buildings into my own body. Sometimes the art mimics life and other times the life ends up becoming what was already explored through artistic practice. Both of these are risks, one can forget the porous boundary that they created between the self and the art and fall into moments of a psychosis, loosing objectivity with this loss of figure and ground, but then gaining insight in the process of regaining the state of subjectivity.”
Detail from documentation of performance "consuming architecture" 2001
Detail from documentation of performance "consuming architecture" 2001