Wick Gallery

Kat Chamberlin: Here in Spirit

Mar 23–Apr 14, 2019

Past

Body injuries. Mental. It’s very stressful when things aren’t going well. You have to go into practice with a clear head. You have to go into practice with a clear head and a positive attitude. If you’re stressed out over your boyfriend or a test or family problems, you have to let that go. Or else you will fall. Something will go wrong.

She does this. She does that.

I’ve never done a seance. I kind of want to see a medium but...

Some chants that we do really pull the crowd.

I don’t want to say yeah but I don’t want to say no at the same time. I have not seen anything that is...like in the gym I get creeped out and I feel like someone is watching you.

They don’t pay us any mind. If you’re not smiling, you kind of look dead.

Stretching, icing. On and off to get your muscles relaxed and loose.

They put more lights up and put more security around. When you’re leaving class at night, and have to cut through the woods...You believe in all that stuff. I believe in that stuff so...

We need it to be like a nightclub or dark bar.

I was supposed to be on crutches. I had hyper extended my sciatic nerve which goes from here all the way down. I was supposed to be on crutches for like three months and I was like “No, thank you”. I just popped a bunch of Motrin and I was literally just on the bleacher and I’m like “Nope, I’m good. I’m good.”

It’s just who I am.

Everybody told me I looked natural doing it.

Installation

Select Works

Kat Chamberlin

Handstand I and II
2018
Steel, grip
17 × 17 × 25 inches (43.2 × 43.2 × 63.5 cm) each

Kat Chamberlin

Toe Touch
2018
Steel, strapping, leather
52 × 92 inches (132.1 × 233.7 cm)

Kat Chamberlin

Anti-Fragile IV
2018
Flameworked laboratory glass, gym mat, strapping, wood
55 × 23 × 23 inches (139.7 × 58.4 × 58.4 cm)

Kat Chamberlin

Cane I
2018
Wood, 3D printed polyurethane, lucite
14 × 27 × 27 inches (35.6 × 68.6 × 68.6 cm)

Kat Chamberlin

Anti-Fragile II
2018
Flameworked laboratory glass
36 × 5 × 2 inches (91.4 × 12.7 × 5.1 cm)

Kat Chamberlin

Anti-Fragile III
2018
Flameworked laboratory glass
38 × 11 × 2 inches (96.5 × 27.9 × 5.1 cm)

Kat Chamberlin

Battle Rope
2019
Silicone rubber
144 inches (365.8 cm) long

Kat Chamberlin

High V
2019
Steel, foam, leather
48 × 40 × 40 inches (121.9 × 101.6 × 101.6 cm)