Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York, whose artworks explore issues of race, labor, and gender in contemporary digital culture. In her presentation for A&S WIRED students, Katherine will show examples of her performances, videos, and interactive installations, and discuss her artistic process. She will discuss how art can transform relationships and challenge commonsense perceptions of the world.
Katherine’s work appears at festivals, galleries, performance spaces, screenings and art centers worldwide, in Dresden, Amsterdam, Moscow, Leeds, Rome, Poznan, Mooste, Cluj-Napoca, New York City, Chicago, Miami, and numerous cities throughout the U.S., and is held in private collections. She is part of Disorientalism, a performance art collaboration with Marianne M. Kim, and is Assistant Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College.
Katherine’s presentation at A&S WIRED coincides with her new exhibition E-Waste, opening November 6, 2014 at UK’s Tuska Center for Contemporary Art.
