KATHE
IZZO
Kathe Izzo - writer, lover and conceptual artist will freely fall in love
with you, unconditionally and with unmitigated passion, for one day. On
this day you will be in energetic contact with Kathe throughout the day.
You will not be rushed and you will share your day with no one, unless
you choose the advanced love option. There is no need for any physical
contact. Satisfaction guaranteed. For for further options, more information
and an appointment schedule please call: 508-487-6341 or email ikathleen@hotmail.com.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kathe Izzo is a poet and conceptual artist whose preferred mediums are
the ties that bind: childhood, motherhood, sex, love and community. Her
poetry, memoirs and short fiction have been published in numerous journals
and anthologies including the recent AROUSED, edited by Karen Finley/Thundersmouth
Press, and well as the AMERICAN BIBLE OF OUTLAW POETRY, BLOOD AND TEARS/poems
for Matthew Shephard, and THE BEST OF THE BEST LESBIAN EROTICA. Transcripts
of some of her early performances have been included in the recent Jack
Smith collection of writings, MEET ME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL, published
by Serpent's Tail Press and edited by J. Hoberman, film critic for The
Village Voice. She was the recipient of two consecutive Massachusetts
Cultural Council awards for her Shadow Writing Project, a collaborative
writing program for youth at risk, through which she published FLICKER,
a series of teen writing journals and continues to work as a youth advocate,
currently developing a national youth playwrights festival, targeted to
premiere in Spring 2003.
Izzo's elegant installations, both confrontational and emotionally intimate,
incorporate her physical presence with both the natural and sacred worlds.
Laying in fragile tableaus for anywhere from 3-5 days with only periodic
breaks for movement, she works in a meditative atmosphere that challenges
the protective beliefs between limitation and liberation. She recently
received a grant through the Provincetown Community Compact's 100 Artists
Project for her historic timeline: SPIRAL OF HOME 2, a collaborative installation
working with 33 men and boys, born and raised in Provincetown, ages 0-96,
opening April 26, 2002 at the Silas-Kenyon Gallery in the Schoolhouse
Center in Provincetown (www.schoolhousecenter.com).
"(Kathe Izzo) makes intensely private work that oddly lets lets the world walk around in it . . . It‚s oddly heavy and comic and deliberately perverse . . . (She) puts her words and body on the line more than any other contemporary artist I know."
Eileen Myles
"Her construction(s) make the point that there are many different ways to see the same thing. As metaphors, (they) signal both refuge and transition. . . beginning and end . . . entrance and exit . . . a place to crawl into and a place to escape from . . ."
Jim Cory, author "Rivers Grow Small: Some Notes on Destination and Place"