I am Katarina Countiss. I am a multimedia artist, specializing in ASMR videos, painting/drawing, and budding into performance art.
I’m inspired by John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Pauline Oliveros. I enjoy using watercolors, improvisation, and I always carry a notebook with me.
With art and living a creative life, I’m interested in cultivating habits that expand boundaries of beauty and finding ways to encourage experimentation.
Portfolio
- Drawing
- #cosmicbunny
- Inspirational drawings with flowers and saying growing out of a bunny-being
- #cosmicbunny
- Painting
- art of where
- in collaboration with Art of Where, I’ve created a made-to-order retail space for reproductions on products of my watercolor paintings of petals
- hand painted designs
- an instagram of explorations of watercolor and other medium through brush strokes of a certain style
- art of where
- performance art
- asmr
- I make video art in the genre of ASMR
- dance therapy/dance playback
- I have an improvisational dance piece that brings groups together through the prompt: best part of your week and worst part of your week
- photobooth
- Using my overhead projector and a collection of visual props, lighting design is portable, accessible, improvisational and has a certain nostalgic aeshetic
- The New Lullaby Shop
- I recently picked up a ukelele and improvise one minute long lullabies/whatevers and post them to instagram– for $5, I’ll post one for you– direct message me!
- asmr
- kat’s zine club
- Join at my patreon website. I make zines every month and mail them to people who are in the club for $10 a month.
- Events
- Keep Begin Detach
- I recently started an event series at a local bookstore in Oakland, E.M. Wolfman. Each month, I pick a new artist to spotlight and then arrange a couple of local artists to present pieces supporting that inspiration. I also make a zine, do participatory art, and facilitate an open mic portion for attendees to share work.
- Klanghaus
- I’m a member of an art collective Klanghaus where I contribute to their monthly art events that feature emerging artists from the Bay Area in a variety of disciplines.
- Keep Begin Detach
- graphic design
- I’m a freelance graphic designer. I do branding, social media collateral, and typesetting. In the past, I have worked with small businesses: Meringotan, San Carlos Flight Center, Ada’s Technical Books and Cafe. Currently, I am accepting work for small projects.