CATS+ Spring 2024

About

This residency session is part of the CATS+ program and runs from March to June 2024. The CATS+ Spring 2024 residents are Sabine Brown, Victoria Cantu, Luna Davis, Cathy Le, Jay Thomas, and Mavyn Vu.

Events

GUTS+

May 25, 2024 | 8pm–10pm

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Resident Bios

Sabine Brown

Sabine Brown is a queer trans performer and installation artist in Austin, TX. Her work is focused on the misuse of technology, glitches as aesthetic ephemera, and cybernetic surveillance. She is a part-time creative technologist and full-time manic freakshow with a background in DIY electronics and audiovisual installations. Her work seeks to highlight emergent tensions between technology, desire, self, and liberation.

Victoria Cantu

Victoria Cantu (b. 1998, Texas) is an identity-based video artist, blurring the lines between performance and documentation. They were born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley and currently reside in Austin, Texas. While earning their Bachelor of Arts from St. Edward's University in 2020, Vic discovered their love for video art and installation. They’re interested in having an ongoing dialogue about beauty, desire, and suffering, keeping archival practices at the forefront when making. Forever inspired by love, theater, performance, and pop culture, Vic continuously discovers new ways to explore self-portraits. myonlinebedroom.com

Luna Davis

Luna Davis (b. 1999) is an interdisciplinary artist in Austin, Texas. Davis graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BFA in Studio Art in 2022, where she explored laser cutting, video projection, printmaking, installation, sculpture, and working with CRT TVs which are still central to her work today. Davis’s work comments on memories, emotions, and traumas held in domestic spaces, along with digital identity in the age of the internet. She creates installations, dioramas, video, and sculptures through a personal and universal lens. Recent projects include Hot Wheels at The Museum of Human Achievement and Mass Gallery’s 16th Anniversary Auction. Davis has co-curated Facade at the Visual Arts Center and Portal Fishing with Favored Channels in 2023. lunadavis.com

Cathy Le

Cathy Le (b. 2000, Houston, Texas) currently resides in Austin, Texas as a software engineer by day and an artist by night. In her youth, she attended the High School for Performing and Visual Arts, but briefly put her art on hiatus while studying Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas. Today, she is easing back into the world of art and exploring what kind of artist she wants to be while trying to mesh her engineering and creative sides. She is intrigued by the human psyche, hidden patterns, data interactions, audience-driven installations, and experiential spaces. thecathyle.com.

Jay Thomas

Jay Thomas is a trans, Latine drag king, emcee, and show producer from Laredo, Texas. Their work seeks to disrupt the status quo in drag performance by centering topics such as misogyny, white supremacy, trans rights, and trans safety. They produce Latine, sapphic-centered events around Austin that help cultivate spaces where folks of these identities can feel safe. Jay frequently collaborates with BIPOC and gender diverse artists. @bobbypu512

Mavyn Vu

Mavyn Vu (b. 1999, Hanoi, Vietnam) is a multidisciplinary visual artist and writer who earned her BSA in Biology and BA in Plan II from the University of Texas at Austin. Initially an oil painter, her involvement with the Texas Immersive Institute expanded her practice to experiential installation that uses environmental design to invoke introspective engagement from participants – reimagining the traditional artist/viewer relationship. Her writing has been published in the arts editorials Center Space Project and Spark Magazine. She shares occasional drops of poetry via her Substack. Mavyn experiments with visual memoir through careful dissection of her lived experience as part of the diaspora, with a focus on matrilineal heritages. mavyn.studio