NELLY KATE — STUDIO ARTIST

Transdisciplinary practice centering access through sound, language, and the poetics of translation. 


CONTENTS

01 The Difference

02 nowisthe
03 Nevermind
04 FutureFluid

05 [Untitled] 6 Cylinders

06 I Hear You, But I Can’t Hear You
07 Transistors in Translation

08 ~~~~~”...derelict in uncharted space...”
09 pink moon

10 Into the Ground, Into the Body


STATEMENT

My work creates space for public imagination and healing through time-based media, open captions, print, installation, and performance. I focus upon cultivating ecosystems of inclusion through the lens of Queer and late-Deaf experience.

I blend responsive technology with lo-fi mechanisms like reel-to-reel tape loops, stop-motion animations, electronic synthesizers, and radio frequencies. These tactile materials illuminate the terrestrial and electromagnetic phenomena which our bodies sense but cannot readily name.

I explore expanding time, breaking and remaking meaning, and conjuring ecstatic magic.


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H0ME • BIO • CV • ︎
NELLY KATE 04 — NOV 2020

FUTUREFLUID

ANNIE MEYER COLLABORATION



Using cymatics, I visualize low, inaudible frequencies to generate patterns. These are satisfying as ASMR, and they create visually accessible sound work for communicating across difference. The silence in the room invites the viewer to lose themselves in the imagery and sensation of time expanding.


TIME IS ECSTATIC. 

Annie encourages reorientation and fluidity through object and space relation. We share a vision for a multiplicity of converging routes with room to host all beings in every orientation and sense. Through this installation, this desire is translated into wood, clay, sound frequencies, and projections. When presented in combination, the forms literally splash together, priming a proposal for fluid futures.
Grappling with crumbling futures that propel us backwards onto an agonizing present, we may realize that the place we are falling toward is no longer grounded, nor is it stable. It promises no community, but a shifting formation. —Hito Steyerl


WOOD & CERAMIC SCULPTURES
Annie Meyer