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KATE KUAIMOKU 


   I’m a visual artist working somewhere between infrastructure, myth, and lived experience. My projects move through performance, installation, and site-based gestures, often circling themes of impact, survival, and transformation. I’m interested in thresholds and the figures that emerge there. Landscapes, archetypes, and engineered systems tend to slip into the work. Oscillating between Northern California and Baja Sur.

Current
2026
    1. PIKO

Selected Works
2025
  1. rubberneck
  2. the approach / the expanded body / jacq
  3. superior mirage
  4. hedonic treadmill
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1. PIKO







PIKO. 14’ft x 14’ft, Aluminum, Steel, and LED Neon. Artist Render.



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PIKO was selected as D26 Honoraria Art and interactivity projects sponsored by Disorient


Piko is a large-scale chamber inspired by the lava tubes of the now dormant volcano Mauna Kea on the island of Kona, Hawaii.



Reimagined through hand formed aluminum, and illuminated with bands of neon that pulse akin to cooling magm. Piko, in Hawaiian ‘the navel’ creates a symbolic axis mundi - a passageway connecting the interior of the earth to the celestial space above. As participants step inside the ribbed aluminum chamber the participants walk around and through the magma reservoir and occupy the interstitial space of the volcano.
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