Background
Kaechele was born in Topanga Canyon, California and raised in Guam, Micronesia and Japan. Her father was a retired Research and Development Corporation aerospace engineer and early practitioner of Rolfing, and mother, a painter.
Kaechele was born in Topanga Canyon, California and raised in Guam, Micronesia and Japan. Her father was a retired Research and Development Corporation aerospace engineer and early practitioner of Rolfing, and mother, a painter.
In 1994, Kaechele began an informal education with travel over land to more than fifty countries in a seven-year perioda hands-on investigation of the idea that life designs itself. During this period, she met and mentored with a variety of thinkers, including Biosphere 2 creator John P. Allen, chemist Albert Hoffman, writers Tom Robbins and John C. Lilly, John Perry Barlow, Rodleen Getsic, psychiatrist Oscar Janiger, artist Peter Nadin, musician Mike Watt and a pair of German architects building sustainably in Maui, Hawaii. In 1999, Kaechele lived in remote southern Lebanon and worked with a group of leading writers, philosophers and historians in Sur (Tyre).
In 1995, she worked with the Shipibo ayahuasca shamans in the Peruvian Amazon.
In 1996, she performed with Louisiana Mama theater in New York City. In 1995, Kaechele began curating large-scale, site-specific installation art with musician Perry Farrell in Los Angeles, including work on the first Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.
In 2000, she moved to New Orleans and began collaborating with artist/musicians Quintron and Mission Pussycat on performance art projects. In 2007 she founded Life is Art Foundation | KKProjects, an art space composed of six abandoned houses in the Street Roch Neighborhood of New Orleans.
The foundation invites local and international artists to create site-specific installations utilizing the houses and surrounding ecological and social environment as medium.
Exhibitions have included artists from emerging to Tony Oursler, Mel Chinese, Keith Sonnier and Robert Rauschenberg. Kaechele also purchased several houses in post Katrina New Orleans for purposes as an art project The Life is Art Foundation is founded on an appreciation for ecological systems and natural order.
The application of systems-based thinking to life and art is the core mission, as expressed through projects that marry art with architecture, ecology, agriculture and human social order.
The foundation serves as a test site for cutting edge ideas in these fields. As of April 2011, Kaechele"s houses in New Orleans have been abandoned.
In March 2014, Kaechele and art collector David Walsh married.
