The outcome of the residency was the exhibition ''Seat Assignment (2011 - ongoing series)'', which consisted of photographs and video works presented throughout a series of installations.
Within this show was a grouping of 18 photographs called Lavatory Self-Portrait in the Flemish Style.
In each portrait Katchadourian took on a range of personas and employed different costumes and poses.
She utilised the robustness, realism and rich textures of 15th-century Flemish painting traditions and gave them a 21st-century spin.
Before travelling to Dunedin, Katchadourian made a curious and bold proposition: to make the entire exhibition in transit, using only her cellphone as a camera and items she sourced on the plane.
This idea first came to her one year before while on a domestic flight within the US when it spontaneously occurred to her that she may be able to fashion a costume out of the materials found in the bathroom.
''I took a tissue paper seat cover, put it over my head and tucked it into my sweater collar, and took a photo with my cellphone. Looking at the image later, it struck me that something interesting might have just happened there and that I'd like to make a few more,'' she said.
This proposal set up several limitations for the artist: specifically, the physical space available in an aeroplane (especially in a tiny bathroom), the range of materials that were accessible and the boundaries of the cellphone camera.
For the most part these materials were those found in the bathroom as well as her pillowcase and general items in her carry-on, but nothing specifically packed that would aid in the production of the works.
Her work has utilised and highlighted the often wasted time people spend in aeroplanes as they fly from one destination to another.
Katchadourian questions the boundaries of what is possible and simultaneously negotiates a way around them, even if that means using a tray table as a studio.
The series of photographs Lavatory Self-Portrait in the Flemish Style was bought by the Dunedin Public Art Gallery following the completion of Katchadourian's residency.
There are 18 in the series and nine of these photographs are on display in the exhibition ''Belonging'', which runs until the end of March next year.
