kate okeson

CURRENT PROJECTS

OM SS ON

OM SS ON investigates access, privilege, and consequences when assumptions about one’s identity are made and left uncorrected. OM SS ON is an ongoing video project that employs collected stories to consider situations and environments in which sexual and gender identity are constructed by willful or accidental omission. Central to the creation of each account is the challenge of re/presenting the subject with story-telling cues altered or absent. The viewer, confronted with the interviewee’s profile, must decide how to use their considerable powers of judgment in assembling the information presented.

Using the web as the gallery space, OM SS ON creates small environments of confrontation and resistance by inviting people already present in public spaces to visit the gallery via QR code.

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Previously

belles lettres

Kate Okeson’s recent project, belles letters, is a series of loosely bound writings from the artist/author to her self about the years before she gained agency. The work documents identity as a conversation between the visual self, its components, and plausible readings, and a self that is constructed by an oft un-chosen community. In these pieces, the artist contemplates the challenge, coexistence, and potential to dislodge the state of ‘becoming’ from the state of ‘being’.

Billet-Doux