How to Touch a Dragonfly (2023)New Media installation Opening 19th October until 22nd OctoberS-Factory D, Seongdong-gu, Seoul “When I was a child, there were dragonflies everywhere.” The summer heat is smothering us as the group of elders shelter in the shadow of the Wondumak gazebo next to the village hall. […]
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Palaeoplasticene at Weather Engines, LABoral
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Read MoreWhen Plants Migrate at Jeju Stone Culture Park
When Plants MigrateSookyun Yang x Kat AustenAs part of Homo Migratio, Jeju Museum of Art in Jeju Stone Culture Park19th September 2023 – 26th November 2023 When Plants Migrate Austen’s 4 channel sound installation will be presented in collaboration with Sookyun Yang’s immersive video work of the same name.
Read MoreSolidarity Fund Hydro published on Kazimdat Records
The compilation Solidarity Fund · Hydro is published! We deeply hope with this compilation to receive donations to support the Volunteer Fire Fighting Society, Črna na Koroškem – from a part of Slovenia that was heavily damaged by recent floods. https://kamizdat.bandcamp.com/album/solidarity-fund-hydro Solidarity Fund · HydroIn the wake of devastating floods that hit Slovenia in early August, […]
Read MorePresenting at the Royal Geographical Society “Listening to water by subverting measurement”
In 2017 Kat went to Nunavut in the Arctic on a residency with Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, to carry out artistic research into the reaction of ice and water to the climate crisis through sound. It was for this residency that Kat developed circuit bent instruments […]
Read MoreThis Land is Not Mine | Album performance @ dotolim, Seoul
19th May 20238pmdotolim, Mapo-gu, Seoul Tickets and more information Kat will perform her album This Land is Not Mine as part of the dotolim concert series. dotolim is a longstanding experimental music venue and recording studio run by Jin Sangtae, which hosts performances and concerts with people with different perspectives […]
Read MoreBook published: Co-designing Infrastructures
“Co-designing Infrastructures: Community collaboration for liveable cities” by Sarah Bell, Charlotte Johnson, Kat Austen, Gemma Moore, and Tse-Hui Teh ISBN: 9781800082229 Publication: April 27, 2023 Series: Engaging Communities in City-making Published by Open Access by UCL Press DOWNLOAD From the UCL Press site Co-designing Infrastructures tells the story of a research programme designed to […]
Read MoreLivestream for Reveil 10 on Dawn Chorus Day
REVEIL 24+1 HOUR BROADCAST 2023 5AM London time (UTC+1) on Saturday 6 MAY to 6AM on Sunday 7 MAY 2023 soundtent.org/reveil I’m delighted to be hosting a stream from Seoul, South Korea, for Reveil 2023. Reveil travels West on live audio feeds from streamers around the world at daybreak, making […]
Read MoreFlow Over Water Borders at Walls Have Ears | ARS Art Factory, Tallinn
Flow Over Water Borders (2019)Walls Have EarsARS Art FactoryTallinn, Estonia 10th – 18th February 2023 “Flow Over Water Borders” by Kat Austen is presented as a 4-channel sound installation that explores fluidity of identity in relation to borders. Paracelsus famously said of all substances “It is only the dose which […]
Read MoreMapping Gender at Worthing Theatre
Mapping Gender Performance Sat 18 Feb 2023 at 7:30 pm Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, Chapel Road, Worthing, West Sussex, BN11 1HP, UK We’re delighted that Anders will be performing Mapping Gender with Kat’s soundscape in the Main Gallery at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery in February. Mapping Gender is a […]
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