NELLY KATE — STUDIO ARTIST

Expanded practice in sound treating access as a site for poetic 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 is motivated by care and a desire to make space for public imagination. I’m interested in ad-hoc solutions that create a sense of belonging. This can look like on-the-fly audio descriptions, live captions, provisional structures, and rearrangements of furniture.

My materials and methods are reflexive. I gravitate toward lo-fi mechanisms—such as reel-to-reel tape loops, transistor radios, photocopiers, and electronic synthesizers—because they reveal electromagnetic frequencies all around us. Their fluttering textures are like our complex embodiments, sensed differently by every being, from every position, in every moment.

For the last few years, I’ve made a lot of furniture, speakers, and screens with repurposed steel barrels. I like the labor, engineering, improvisation, care, and slowness this requires. I like the body-memory evident in the wear, tear, and filth.  And anyway, I believe our budgets reflect our values and I’d much rather pay people than generate more trash.

What if we have everything we need?


The objects I make set the stage for experiences that invite connection, drift, rest, and a relinquishment of clock time. When all these factors converge, I call that ecstatic magic and that’s what I strive for in my practice.


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H0ME • BIO • CV • ︎
NELLY KATE 08 — OCT 2024

~~~~~”...derelict in uncharted space...”

CHUNKY MOVE — MELBOURNE FRINGE FESTIVALCOLLABORATORS: Fayen d’Evie, Georgina Kleege,
Lloyd Mst Andy Slater, Rebecca Bracewell, Jon Tjhia,
Alex Craig, Justin Looper, and Charles Gushue 



In 1974, an amateur Star Trek fan club in San Francisco launched Project Communicator, a non-profit initiative to bring the wonderment of Star Trek to blind audiences, through descriptive radio plays. For their pilot, they chose the episode ‘Is There In Truth No Beauty’, which guest starred a blind telepath character. Despite being endorsed by the Star Trek cast, and narrated by Trek actor James Doohan, Paramount perceived the project as piracy. The pilot was never released, and Project Communicator was abandoned.
In this world premiere season, a stellar collaborative of dancers, artists, writers, musicians, and designers pays homage to the creative innovation and collective ethos of Project Communicator. We invite you to join us for an ambitious movement performance and radio broadcast series that experiments with possibilities for inter-sensorial translations, beyond the boundaries of perceptual norms, and the boundaries of space-time.

“O brave new world..."


CREATED BY: Fayen d’Evie, Benjamin Hancock, Rebecca Bracewell, Luke D. King, Georgina Kleege, Nelly Kate, Andy Slater, Lloyd Mst, Jon Tjhia, Alex Craig, Anastasia La Fey, Aaron McPeake, Ashley Buchanan, Olivia Walker, Marco Cher-Gibard, Anna Seymour, Sheereen Perrin, Jake Bonin, George Thomas, Lorena Zapiain and Sheri Wells-Jensen, in association with Antony Hamilton, Kristina Arnott, Vitae Veritas, Bryan Phillips, Madeleine Flynn and Charles Gushue
AUDIODESCRIBERS: Jon Tjhia, Kalinda Vary, Khalid Warsame, Lorena Zapiain, Madeleine Flynn, Milly Cooper, Nilgün Güven, Rachel Edward, Rosemary Forde, Xinyuan (Caesar) Li, Zeno d’Evie and Zoe Scoglio