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red hen[impossible standard]
2017 is a durational performance/installation exploring the presumptive societal expectations of “womanhood” and the architecture of suppression. Using wire hangers, an iconic symbol of the gristly fight for women’s reproductive rights, to weave a structure based on the form of the Venus of Willendorf, one of humanity’s primordial depictions of fertility/womanhood, I create a jeweled, cage-like garment, crowned with a facial obscuring headdress of foam curlers. Activated in performance, I wear the cage garment and headdress while mixing, punching, and baking dough, serving bread to viewers, to become merely a means of production, a faceless incubator of nourishment. RUN | RABBIT
2015-present Using projection, mask, movement and sound, aerial elements and narrative dialogue, RUN:rabbit is a roller coaster ride through the confusing, frightening, sometimes humorous, and true to life story of a gender fluid human navigating the extreme challenges of mental illness, abuse, a frightening physical diagnosis, and the pressure to hide one's sexual identity. RUN:rabbit is created, designed, and performed by Autumn Kioti, inspired by true interactions of therapist Arlene Mehlman and her client, remaining anonymous. Workshop presented, in excerpt, by DIXON PLACE as part of their 25th anniversary HOT! Festival, a celebration of LGBTQ culture. |
sacrifice: ORYX movement I
2014 A site specific performance installation in a church vestibule, combining elements of mythology and folklore, animal movement, visual art, and music composed and recorded by author and poet Misha Nogha. An exploration of the scapegoat or sacrificial lamb, I take the form of both the woman and the prey animal. Human/animal dichotomies are often found in lore, and the ability to hold both images in one's mind congruently is an integral part of this ritualized improvisational storytelling. This piece is a response to the ongoing acceptability of the vilification and simultaneous sexualization of the female form. |
WHISPERS IN THE AIR
2016 Collaborative performance duo Autumn Kioti + Katy Gunn respond to the works of Sol Kjok and Peter Max-Jakobsen. Here, using vocal, physical, instrumental, and aerial elements, Autumn and Katy create sacred space in which they explore the depths of identity, reflecting on those those things that connect us as collective beings, and define us as individuals. Together they ask, where do I/you end, where do you/I begin? DENISE BIBRO FINE ART, 529 WEST 20TH STREET, 4W, NYC |
#1: everythingfallingthrougheverything
site-specific: Mothership, NYC 2016 "...But most people use social media not to unite, not to open their horizons wider, but on the contrary, to cut themselves a comfort zone where the only sounds they hear are the echoes of their own voice, where the only things they see are the reflections of their own face. Social media are very useful, they provide pleasure, but they are a trap." --Zygmunt Bauman BECOMING THEM: a fantasy narrative on our relationship to our tech devices
2016 Wearable art/performance created by AUTUMN KIOTI in response to installation by SUPRINA |
re-sounding the landscape
2016 When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. -John Muir, 1869 Making use of the topography, I create physical representations of a pre-industrial sound landscape using modern detritus collected on the site. Each "sound wave balwan", a memorial for the flora and fauna once found in the area, will then be connected to those on which its survival depended, creating a communal work based on the Muir Web. Viewer participation in the ritual is encouraged in two ways: First as we gather to collect and clean the area, preparing the site, and second as we use the sculptures and found objects as a starting point to create our web of connection. Research and resources generously provided by Eric Sanderson, Chris Spagnoli, the Welikia Project, and The Mannahatta Project staff at the Wildlife Conservation Society. The first site-specific performance occurs in Port Morris opposite the entrance to the Randall's Island Connector, south Bronx. |
Eric Sanderson, landscape ecologist, describes the Muir Web as |
WHISPERING VOICES
2015 WHISPERING VOICES is a cross-disciplinary collaboration and modern-day ritual seeking to evoke the intimate connection between human beings and the elusive source that links us all. The ritual begins when Katy invites the audience on stage to whisper to Autumn. Acting as willing scapegoat and physically offering her own body, she will shoulder your burden, accept your secrets, your blame or boast, light or darkness. Then, accompanied by Katy Gunn’s brand new experimental music created entirely with her voice, Autumn will performs butoh-inspired movement on the ground and upon aerial apparatus in a grotesque form of aerial performance inspired by dream imagery and pure emotion. Originally performed at Last Frontier NYC in collaboration with artists Sol Kjok, Bob Clyatt, Richard Borge and Sam Yocum, Katy and Autumn's collaboration will be coming to new venues, including Dixon Place in NYC, 1/20/2016. |
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whisper to me...
2015 snakelike i feel you breathe you draw me let me have your secrets i will feast on your pain revel in your desires HERE MAY YOU LAY YOUR BURDEN whisper to me...
is a participatory performance created by artist Autumn Kioti and musician Katy Gunn, in which Autumn, physically offering her own body, will shoulder your burden, accept your secrets, your pain, your light or innermost darkness... |
HOUSE OF STRENGTH
2014 Choreographic collaboration with Iranian artist Nooshin Rostami. From Nooshin Rostami: House of Strength is a performance inspired by the traditional Persian gymnasiums called Zoorkhaneh (House of Strength) where male participants practice physical training, as well as virtues of humbleness, forgiveness, brotherhood, and generosity. Women have traditionally been strictly forbidden from entering these gyms where male semi-nude performances are led by a singer who chants sacred poetry and plays drums and bells. Women are occasionally allowed to enter the arena and sit as audience. In this inclusive performance, male and female artists from different ethnic backgrounds working in a variety of disciplines reinvent and repurpose House of Strength by performing a contemporary rendition of these traditional rituals. The performance entails improvised and choreographed body movements with props and music. |
run rabbit run (movement with projections)
2015 run rabbit run speaks directly to my struggle with OCD, depression, anxiety and body dysmorphic disorder. This piece was conceived in response to a challenge from dear friend and extraordinary playwright Teresa Lotz. Find video excerpts of the performance here. |
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