We are delighted to announce that Kat will take part in the 2025 ACC Creator Residency. This is a very special year to take part in the residency as it is the programme’s 10 year anniversary.
Selected for the Immersive Sound residency, over the next four months Kat will develop THIRST/For Knowledge, a sound installation + publication exploring water as a communication of knowledge between landscapes, humans and AI data centres.
Working with artists, activists and scholars around the globe as well as conducting onsite acoustic ecological explorations at a site of the forthcoming Jeollanamdo province development of Asia’s largest AI data centre, the soundscape will explore the deep connection between more-than-human and human bodies of water. The work will showcase in November at the ACC in Gwangju.
THIRST/For Knowledge is an immersive sonic exploration of the existential issues, collaborations and tensions between waters, AI and humans. Linking concepts around the memory of water, watery ecologies, advances in AI resource use and hydrofeminist framings of humans as watery bodies, THIRST/For Knowledge pivots around the central essential character of water as a medium of communication of knowledge, and its exploitation and preservation by human, artificial and more-than-human agents.