Poet, filmmaker and conceptual performance artist Kathe Izzo works with love: childhood, motherhood, sex, and community. Her elegant installations, both confrontational and emotionally intimate, incorporate her physical presence into a performance space at once natural, theatrical & sacred; slipping through the subtle crack between limitation & liberation, between art & life.

Her work has been shown most recently in solo shows at  Artemis (Miami), Cinders (Williamsburg),  Experimentica (Cardiff), Highways (LA) and Movement Research (NYC) and Wild Gift (London).

In her most ambitious work so far, The True Love Project, Izzo has loved the world, one person at a time (for one day, one hour, one afternoon, evening or morning) for the last four years. The True Love Project and all it’s subsidiaries are based on the principle of direct energetic transmission from artist to audience through the medium of love as art. By spending time together, all parties, artist and audience, are immediately and irrevocably transformed.   To this date, she has loved over 400 private audiences, with only a few disgruntled patrons.

Izzo’s poetry, memoirs and short fiction have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. An early formative performance has been preserved for posterity in the seminal Jack Smith collection of writings: MEET ME AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL/Serpent's Tail.

She is currently at work on her memoir, LOVE ARTIST.

www.trueloveproject.com
www.publicloveproject.com
www.mettaartlove.com