THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET Katelyn Kopenhaver, Bakehouse Art Complex, Studio 45, March 20th
Over the course of three hours, during an open studio event at Bakehouse Art complex, the phrase THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT / GET gradually accumulates across the walls and floor through repeated silkscreen impressions. This performance replaces the open studio’s behavioral script with a procedural system. Encountered first in fragments and later as a complete statement, the text functions as a direct address without an identifiable speaker. As WANT and GET press against one another, the work leaves the relationship between desire and fulfillment unresolved, oscillating between promise and warning, transaction and command.
THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT THIS IS WHAT YOU GET Katelyn Kopenhaver, Stanek Gallery, July – September 2026
Developed from an earlier performance, THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT / GET revisits the phrase as a fixed wall installation. Through repeated silkscreen impressions, words overlap, fragment, and slip out of alignment until language becomes less a vehicle for communication than a material subject to repetition, erosion, and chance.
