Antonia Kao
Creative Work
I'm an interdisciplinary artist drawn to improvisation and exploring edges, who has worked in writing, mixed media, film (behind and in front of the camera), and performance art.
Present. Focusing on Performance/ Modeling. Representation: Models Inc. Talent Agency.
2015-Present Performance Art
1980-Present. Writing. A few sample articles:
"Taking on Taipei", Girlfriends Magazine (1997)
"Sebastopol Artist Lives A Life of Sustainability, Creativity, and Honesty in Tiny Home", Santa Rosa Press Democrat (2023)
"A Dementia Patient Chooses VSED", End of Life Choices California Blog (2024)
2009-2019 Prior Still Works, mostly mixed media integrating the human body, often my own.
1999-2007 Prior Film Works
2005 A short documentary I directed, Pup (2005), can be viewed on Vimeo, using password WoofLove.
Some short videos and video gestures are below:
Whaaa!-pple
2/20/18 Playing with apples, with daughter Anja
Flow
1/26/18 In honor of that monthly flow
Moon
10/26/17 Video gesture, improvising with projection, created with Molly Best.
Etude in a Plastic Bag #1
4/24/14 Video gesture of improvisation with plastic bag
"Every single instant of every single moment that you carry with you... you’re engaging with Mystery. That’s the 'not knowing' I'm talking about....[If] your drive, if what calls you here is that aspect, then that’s the only reason to do this as far as I'm concerned ....because this is too hard. It's too hard to even respond to that call... The mystics forever and ever have been responding to this call and I think people that find themselves in this kind of arena are responding to that call. And it's nothing you can talk about. Poets have been trying to write about it, ...people have been trying to talk about it, but you really can't talk about it. So, that's the Mystery."
~ Ruth Zaporah