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 how provisional solutions can create a sense of belonging. This can look like on-the-fly audio descriptions, live captions, ad-hoc 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.

The things I make are meant to invite connection, drift, rest, and a relinquishment of clock time. When all these factors converge, it’s 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