Katie Rauth
Katie Rauth is a West Philadelphia-based multidisciplinary artist working in video, performance and sculpture. Through constructed identity, her work often draws on the disempowerment and invisibility of a high femme identity within the queer community. Recently, Rauth has been exploring the intersection of femininity, queerness and fatness, actively working within the framework of radical fat liberation. Rauth curates the ongoing drag and performance series Wavelengths at Vox Populi and is a member at Practice Gallery.
Awarded Grants
2018
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
Informed by personal experiences & community talkbacks, Katie will produce relatable content, in the form of video shorts, for fat femmes. Katie hopes to forward the radical fatness and the fat acceptance movement, which are often left out of social justice discourse, meanwhile, in recent years, the #bodypositive movement has been co-opted. The culminating viewing party will be held in a public park as a community space that extends the conversation on fat liberation to thin audiences and push the boundaries of public fat joy.
