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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NELLY KATE 10 — SEP - OCT 2024

Into the Ground, Into the Body

JUSTIN LOOPER COLLABORATION
BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL ACCELERATOR PROJECT
EGLESTON SQUARE BRANCH OF THE BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY

This project offers a somatic experience for the public to engage with sound across the senses through visualizations, vibration, and transference. Visitors are invited to activate sonic frequencies that resonate through the back of a bench and generate waveforms in a water fountain, both of which are made from recycled 55-gallon steel barrels.

Into the Ground, Into the Body, uses inaudible frequencies to incite restoration and healing while simultaneously decentering hearing experience.

Read Boston Public Art Triennial’s full press release HERE.




Installation Audio Description // Transcript HERE
Wayfinding Audio Descriptions // Transcripts HERE

Descripción de audio de la instalación // Transcripción AQUÍ
Descripciones de audio de instrucciones de orientación

To access full promo transcript, click/open the video below in Vimeo.


TECHNOLOGY & DESIGN - Justin Looper
COMMUNICATION & ACCESS - Olivia Reinebach
CURATORIAL - Jasper Sanchez, Boston Public Art Triennial
SIGNAGE & HOSPITALITY - Alison Maurer
METAL & FAB CONSULT - Jessica Klein & Doug Ruuska
HDPE COMPOSITE - Inspired Plastics
PHOTOGRAPHY - Cameron Kincheloe
SPANISH INTERPRETATION - Sol Martinez Guevara
ASL INTERPRETATION - C
ENGLISH AD - Eddie Maisonet
SPANISH AD - Luis Cotto
BRAILLE - Amber Pearcy & National Braille Press
AUDIO CONSULT - Bob Bielecki
RESOURCE SHARING & MORALE - Charlo Maurer & Paul Gregory
DESIGN CONSULT - Madelaine Corbin, Louis Anderson, and Gregory Beson
SITE WORK - Lauren Kashan, Diane Dwyer, Angela Eastman, Michael Berthaud
EGLESTON BRANCH LIBRARIAN - Kate Procyshyn
EGLESTON SQUARE LIBRARY FRIENDS GROUP - Cora Roelofs, Julianna Brody-Fialkin, Martha Karchere, Leslie Belay, and Shannon Borucke
ENGAGEMENT - Marguerite Wynter, Boston Public Art Triennial
BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL ACCELERATOR