Kaia Selene

I'm an experimental multi-disciplinary artist with a goal to foster authentic connectivity. ​I work at hard at this, because I believe in connection. More specifically I believe in making active efforts at rebuilding the sense of relational interconnectedness that is our natural human right, yet was stolen from us. True joy comes from understanding why we are here and deepening this connection to our purpose. The shared struggle to feel truly connected to life, earth and one another is the real wound of a colonial, capitalist existence. It's not possible to suffer the way we do when we know that we belong. When I feel outside the world and apart from everything and one (themes of my life) I find that over and over art brings me in and helps me feel at one; with my somatic experience of living, with others, with everything. It's my only hope to create something once in a while that also stirs something in someone else. Maybe even you. If so, we get to communicate and connect non-verbally in a core space, apart from the mundane. Perhaps momentarily occupying some strange internal landscape. One where we both know that we are made of stars and that we two and the moon and sun and sea are all carved of the same spiritual cloth. We're one giant living endeavor hurtling through space towards who knows where... But none of us are alone.  May you find a place where this veil is thin, Kaia Selene Kaia Selene (formerly Kaia Ivry) is a multi-disciplinary self taught artist based in Olympia, WA. Her/Their multimedia works may include elements of interaction, performance, dance, puppetry, costuming, sculpture, paper arts, painting, textiles, sound, writing, and food art. She's also a studied Butoh dancer who has moved with many performers including Daipan Butoh, Degenerate Art Ensemble, Diego Pinion, Death Posture and Katsura Kan. An interview regarding her Butoh work appears in Women of the Underground: Art: Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves by Zora Von Burden.