We are delighted to share that How to Touch a Dragonfly has been selected as a finalist for the Lumen Prize 2024 in the category Immersive Interactive. How to Touch a Dragonfly is an immersive installation. The 4 m dome-shaped screen is constructed of 2100 hexagonal paper and LED pixels […]
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Premiere of Empty Fields performance at Kiaf during Frieze Seoul
Empty Fields is a sound+movement performance by Kat Austen that roams the exhibition halls of the Korea International Art Fair, Kiaf, inviting fair-goers to encounter multi-dimensional territories of sound. The artist becomes a cyborg traveller carrying hybrid human-nature-digital ecologies through the air fair, their body a fully autonomous and mobile […]
Read MoreSwamps & Stars: Planetary Listening Cassette Release Performance at Spore / 19th July Berlin
Planetary Listening presents an evening of performances, and the release of Swamps & Stars cassette at Spore Initiative, Berlin. Join Planetary Listening for an evening celebrating the Swamps & Stars cassette launch. Realised through 2023, Swamps & Stars events brought together artists and researchers from Berlin and beyond to explore the vibrations between swampy […]
Read MoreResidency at Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel / 5th July Waterloo
Since last year, Kat has been collaborating with bass Andrew Munn and pianist Jacob Greenberg on postWinterreise, a recomposition of Schubert’s Winterreise, a duet between Schubert’s Winterreise and an evolving soundscape of our changing climate, ecology, and society. Kat and Andrew are currently taking part in a two week residency […]
Read MoreLASER Talk: Environmental Justice for Non-human Species / 2nd July Brussels
Environmental justice extends beyond human concerns, encompassing the intricate lives of non-human species that share our planet. In this LASER Talk at Gluon in Brussels, Kat will present how her art engages with switching subjectivities in order to shine a lens on how human shaping of landscapes changes their habitability for […]
Read MoreFinalist for Falling Walls’ Art & Science Award
Two of Kat’s artworks have been selected as finalists for the 2024 Falling Walls Art & Science Award. The chosen artworks are Stranger to the Trees and Circular Records, in collaboration with Fara Peluso. The winning artworks will be announced prior to Falling Walls in November in Berlin, Germany. See […]
Read MoreHow to Touch a Dragonfly nominated for J+ Art Awards
Thank you J+ Art Awards and the prize judges for nominating How to Touch a Dragonfly. It’s an honour to be considered for this inaugural ecology focussed art award. How To Touch a Dragonfly presents a reinterpretation of a dragonfly’s experience through sound and animation within a dome structure modeled […]
Read MoreFeature in Marie Claire Italy
Known for her experimental and deeply moving climate music, Kat’s work has been covered in a Marie Claire Italy feature “Tutto suona, quali sono i rumori che ci fanno bene” (All sounds, what are the noises that are good for us?” Article at Marie Claire Italy (pdf) (Italian language)
Read MorePublication DNA #24: Evidence Ensembles
Following Kat’s participation in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt’s Anthropocene Curriculum event Unearthing the Present, we are delighted to announce that the follow-up publication DNA #24: Evidence Ensembles (2024), published by Spector Books is now available. CONTRIBUTORS: Kat Austen; Christoph Rosol; Giulia Rispoli; Katrin Klingan; Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck; Carbon Aesthetics […]
Read MoreLASER Talk Three Cultures: the potential for change when art, science and policy meet
A wealth of art + science projects are addressing topics of environmental importance. The cutting-edge ideas and experiments from the field hold great potential for transforming policy – but how does the message get across? How does art+science intersect with policy? This LASER session responds to the recent publication, “The […]
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