Catherine Eng

I am an interdisciplinary artist working in textile, installation, video, and performance. My live performance and video work has been shown in Chicago at Logan Center for the Arts and Hyde Park Art Center as well as in New York City at Pageant, Arts on Site, Triskelion Arts, and Movement Research. With the pandemic, I refocused on my tangential love of video, generating two works for online installation in Proteo Media’s 2020 and 2021 Post/Futures Festival.

My interest in Movement Image has shifted my focus away from informational content and toward the gesture of the informational context. I approach video editing as a hand-craft, often making thousands of repetitive cuts in an effort to emphasize a sense of texture and impression within the material. It’s from that curiosity that I expanded into my current sculptural practice.

The work I am making now is labor intensive and rooted in the textile arts. It’s focused on softening our industrial/consumerist landscape into the sphere of the folk, looking at how the poetics of the “unfinished” and “disposable” speak to senses of self in an expanding artificial world.