RED Kadetsky

RED Kadetsky
Brooklyn, New York

STATEMENT

I am a visual and performance artist whose work is an eclectic arrangement of surrealism, camp, and punk DIY aesthetics and is embodied in dance, theater, and visual arts. I assemble together found objects and images reimagine the possibilities of things and bodies left behind.

My work embraces a bend in reality that expands the preconceived notions of perception by stretching and pushing bodies outside of their traditional arrangements pulling inspiration from experimental animators such as Lem Lye, Suzan Pitt, Musaaki Yuasa, and Zbigniew Rybczyński. My creations are grotesque, campy and not without a sense of humor.

Usually working in the style of collage, I cut, paste, pull, tear and rearrange materials – usually whatever I can get my hands on – and rearrange them to create new perspectives and worlds. My work pushes the material to see how it bends and twists to discover the possibilities of what is in hand. I am not afraid of the grotesque, the taboo and the ridiculous. I evolve the body into new shapes to reject the continuous rigidity of what personhood looks like by oppressive powers through an overdose of joy, DIY aesthetics, and punk surrealism.

BIO

RED is a theater maker, and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. RED received their undergraduate degree at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Music and their Masters in Theater at Sarah Lawrence College. His work has been featured at Theater MITU, La MaMa, Prototype Festival, LA Opera, HERE Arts, Under the Radar, Abrons Arts Center, MoMA Ps1, and BAM. RED has created several pieces of performance such as ROAD HEAD (Dixon Place) and EAT YOURSELF OUT (Sarah Lawrence College) and continues to choreograph and create alongside his partner Jeremy Kadetsky, in their performance duo: doxies.

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