KOKO's Love: Various Installations

Antenna, New Orleans (2016)
Seven-channel mixed media video installation
27' x 31' x 12' tall
Photo Credit: Tammy Mercure

Groundspace Project, Los Angeles (2017)
Seven-channel mixed media video installation, 25' x 40' x 12' tall
Photo Credit: Anna Garner

Groundspace Project, Los Angeles (2017)
Seven-channel mixed media video installation, 25' x 40' x 12' tall

Groundspace Project, Los Angeles (2017)
Seven-channel mixed media video installation, 25' x 40' x 12' tall
Photo Credit: Anna Garner

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA (2018)
Six-channel mixed media video installation, 14’ x 28’ x 12’ tall

Art Salon Chinatown, Los Angeles (2019)
Single-channel mixed media video installation, 12' x 5' x 8' tall
Photo Credit: Ruben Diaz

KOKO's Love: Various Installations, 2016-2019, Mixed media multi-channel video installation, Size variable

KOKO's Love has various manifestations as a video installation and changes form dependent on the related videos and the space. For Antenna in New Orleans (2016), three imagined characters or "spiritual guides" (Alligator The Great, Mx. Friendly Beignet, Tombstone Tammy) from Episode 2 greet the visitors in the surreal and wax museum inspired space. Antenna gallery becomes a psychological playhouse for the everyday doubts, anxieties, hopes, and daydreams that come from living as the Sakimoto (KOKO's Love) family.

At Groundspace Project in Los Angeles (2017), the seven KOKO's Love related videos were arranged to transform the space into a mini version of a KOKO’s Love type amusement park with a “Yuki Land” to the left with Yuki’s bedroom setup, a “Spiritual Swamp of New Orleans” straight ahead, and “You’re Married…. Now What?” to the right. These installations are created to transform the physical space and transport the viewer into an immersive KOKO's Love world.

At the Louisiana Tech University's Moffett Gallery (2018), the gallery is transformed into a SMPTE color bar/television test pattern where KOKO's Love stops the continuous normal television programming to bring the audience an alternate view of modern life.

KOKO’s Love: Episode 3 was reimagined at Art Salon Chinatown in Los Angeles (2019) to complement the existing vintage and historic interior of the unique gift shop Realm, which was a popular punk band venue in the 1970’s called Hong Kong Café.