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The talk ‚Artistic approaches to the echoes of fossil fuels‘

Fossil fuel use is essential to the anthropocene. In this presentation artist Kat Austen will discuss two artworks that address the topic of fossil fuel legacies. In the context of the climate crisis, Stranger to the Trees looks at microplastic, themselves a product of fossil fuel-intensive industrial processes, and their […]

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Article ‚Microplastics and Trees‘ in MAZ newspaper

Last year we co-operated with the village of Bork, Kyritz in Brandenburg to prolong our Stranger to the Trees experiment on the effect of microplastic on birch tree growth. Bork have provided the Studio Austen birches with a home that allows us to continue to collect scientifically valid data in […]

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Contemporary Art in the Anthropocene

Tuesday 17th November, online Kat will present a selection of her work as part of the UCL Anthropocene Initiative’s Symposium „Contemporary Art in the Anthropocene“ 17th November, 15:30-17:30 CET. Register here (free of charge). More info: Expanding the focus on scientific data which is common to discourse on the subject, […]

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Conference „Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science“

Kat will present her artistic work at the fourth international conference „Taboo – Transgression – Transcendence in Art & Science“, November 26–28, 2020. Kat’s talk „The transgression of boundaries through transdisciplinary research relevant to the climate crisis“ draws on her portfolio of projects interrogating the boundary between the self and […]

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Kat Austen is now a fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, joining a global cohort of influential thinkers addressing urgent contemporary issues, including Tim Berners-Lee, Alex James and Benson Taylor. Find out more about the history of the FRSA programme.

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The Matter of the Soul | Symphony Part I

In case you missed the radio show featuring the first part of The Matter of the Soul | Symphony on May the 5th 2020 on p-node radio hosted by Klio Krahewska you can now download and listen to the playlist (archive Tuesday, 5/07, 18h, Klio).

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Tomorrow is Already Here

The Matter of the Soul will feature in the climate crisis themed exhibition Tomorrow Is Already Here 26th January – 8th March 2020Headlands Center for the ArtsSausalito, USA More info

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