Kat Sotelo: XOXO (FILIPINO FUTURISM), presented as part of Fall Movement on December 6-7, 2024. Photo by Elyse Mertz. Courtesy CPR.
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In this weekly performance series, 2025 Artist-in-Residence Kat Sotelo invites the audience into her research surrounding seductive, ephemeral worlds – fantasies staged as a peep show for intimate consumption. Indulge in humiliation or glory as she enacts tropes of Filipino subservience. Let boundaries blur between spectator and spectacle, sensation and transaction. What is being revealed, exchanged, exploited? Who is in control? Become the voyeur, the voyeur of the voyeur, the object of desire, the furniture, the wall.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kat Sotelo is a first-generation Filipino American performance artist, choreographer, and set designer whose practice blends movement, satire, and constructed environments. She explores the body as a site of commerce, often using her experience in "exotic" dance to examine fantasy and cultural hybridity. As a film industry professional, Sotelo’s compositions also integrate elements of cinema to create layered realities. Her current body of work focuses on eroticism and servitude through a Filipino American lens – at the intersection of nostalgia, rage, and melancholy. By weaving video, personal archives, and Philippine folk traditions, she critiques the commodification of art and identity with humor and pop visions. Sotelo is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research (2024-2026) and CPR – Center for Performance Research (2025).