What About me?
Autumn is an interdisciplinary artist, poet and performer, and Director of Education and Outreach for Audubon Everglades. The thread that connects all of these is that Autumn is a storyteller. Within their current practice, they confront issues such as climate change, the Anthropocene urge to conquer the environment, food justice, identity, eco-feminism, the intersection of access to wild space/mental health, finding the correlation of each to the other impossible to ignore. In confronting these issues over the last decades in South Florida, New York City, and beyond, Autumn’s chosen media has been fluid and responsive to the environmental conditions in which they work. Their diverse materials include garbage, video and sound, poetry, fiber arts, cooking and food, plant and animal companions, and more traditional two- and three-dimensional work. They select their medium based on how the public can be best engaged in a site-specific piece: whether through installation, performance, workshop. What is the story that they're telling? And to whom? Tackling the environmental impacts of our society necessitates an acknowledgement that we are truly interdependent, participating in the story of our natural and built environments together, as a community and as a society, therefore they frequently collaborate with organizations, individual scientists, and activists. Much of this work is offered free to the public at established institutional spaces, and the majority is grassroots, self-funded, and engages a broad and diverse public of all ages and backgrounds.
Their visual and performance work has been shown in New York City at The Queens Museum as part of the Itinerant Festival, The Last Frontier, the Mothership, the Robert Miller Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, Art in Flux Harlem, Dixon Place and more. Their work has also traveled to LA, Johannesburg, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Japan, New Jersey, Poughkeepsie, and New Mexico. In Florida, their work has appeared at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County (solo and group exhibitions), Studio 18, Arts Warehouse, GallerRE, the Cornell Museum and more. They have been in residence with the NYC Audubon, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and more, received a commission to create a performance for the city of West Palm Beach through the ArtLife committee, and have been commissioned by the Norton Museum of Art’s AAD program to create site specific performance art and unique devised performance workshops.
In choosing to create moments that are often singular, re-purposing objects, using movement, instinct and surprise, Autumn seeks to create a recognition that we are both less and more important than we imagine, and that we're all writing this story together.
Their visual and performance work has been shown in New York City at The Queens Museum as part of the Itinerant Festival, The Last Frontier, the Mothership, the Robert Miller Gallery, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, Art in Flux Harlem, Dixon Place and more. Their work has also traveled to LA, Johannesburg, Paris, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Japan, New Jersey, Poughkeepsie, and New Mexico. In Florida, their work has appeared at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County (solo and group exhibitions), Studio 18, Arts Warehouse, GallerRE, the Cornell Museum and more. They have been in residence with the NYC Audubon, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and more, received a commission to create a performance for the city of West Palm Beach through the ArtLife committee, and have been commissioned by the Norton Museum of Art’s AAD program to create site specific performance art and unique devised performance workshops.
In choosing to create moments that are often singular, re-purposing objects, using movement, instinct and surprise, Autumn seeks to create a recognition that we are both less and more important than we imagine, and that we're all writing this story together.
© Autumn Kioti 2017
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