
The Matter of the Soul will feature in the climate crisis themed exhibition Tomorrow Is Already Here
26th January – 8th March 2020
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, USA
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The Matter of the Soul will feature in the climate crisis themed exhibition Tomorrow Is Already Here
26th January – 8th March 2020
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, USA
Kat’s work has been featured by Berliner Gazette as one of their Impulses for their 20th Anniversary MORE WORLD feature, which explores the role of collectivity in addressing climate change.
At the MORE WORLD conference this October, Kat will participate in and feature a short performance from The Matter of the Soul, for the COUNTER/KNOWLEDGE track.
Kat will perform one movement from The Matter of the Soul at the Berliner Gazette 20th Anniversary Gala Evening on the 12th October, performance starts at 20:30. Attendance of the performance is free and independent of attending the conference.
10th – 12th October 2019
Center for Arts and Urbanistics (ZK/U)
Berlin, Germany
The Matter of the Soul | Symphony video will be screened on 28th May at Surfrider Foundation for L’eau en movement, conception de la matière curated by Ateliers Avenue de la Milady, Biarritz as part of Fête de la Nature Biarritz. The evening line-up is:
Première Partie – Creasy John : 20h – 21h
Source – Guillaume YoMk : 21h – 22h
Matter of the Soul – Kat Austen : 22h – 23h
More info on their website and the Facebook event
Surfrider Foundation Europe
33 Allée du Moura, 64200 Biarritz
20th January – 17th March 2019
Art Laboratory Berlin
Prinzenallee 34
13359 Berlin
Video installation of The Matter of the Soul | Symphony as part of Watery Ecologies.
More info: http://artlaboratory-berlin.org
Thursday 13th December
22:00 UK time
I’ll be appearing on Free Thinking on BBC Radio 3 talking about Ice along with Anne McElvoy, Michael Bravo, Jean McNeil and Tom Charlton.
The Matter of the Soul | Symphony – with choreography by Kasia Witek
Opening performance for Greenpeace’s Climate Hub during COP24 (UNFCCC)
1st December
19:00-20:00
Location: Klub Królestwo, Rondo im. gen. Jerzego Ziętka 1
Katowice, Poland
Stay tuned for the release of the entire The Matter of the Soul | Symphony in November on Kat Austen’s Bandcamp.
We’ll also be releasing The Matter of the Soul | Symphony Première Live at HAR with Alex Bonney and Matthew Bourne, later this year.
14th October 2018
National Technical Museum – Center for Architectural Heritage Plasy,
Plasy Monastery, Czech Republic
The video for biphasic | The Matter of the Soul, will be screened for the first time at Architecture and the Senses, a symposium organised by the Agosto Foundation at National Technical Museum – Center for Architectural Heritage Plasy, Mathey Hall, Plasy Monastery, Opatská konírna.
biphasic is the first movement of The Matter of the Soul symphony. This three-part symphony explores the relationship between human movement and the dispersal of Arctic water, creating in the process digital artefacts that disperse online. It is an elaboration of identity and meta-identity in the shifting times of climate crisis, interweaving socio-politics, individual needs and desires, and global impacts of human activity.
In biphasic, two discrete entities exist alongside each other, but not together, not mixing.
The Matter of the Soul | Symphony will première in its entirety at Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North in Leeds, UK, on the 23rd October. Tickets available here.
Date: 3rd September
Music Tech Fest
Reaktorhallen 1
Stockholm
More info on Music Tech Fest website
Performance of The Matter of the Soul | Phase 1 and concentration, with live video from the amazing Servando Barreiro.
I will play water live using hacked pH and conductivity meters, an acid crystal immersion into the live and flow of water.
The Matter of the Soul
sono-sculptural new media installation
as part of Polar Encounters by Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute
30th July 2018 – 17th August 2018
Location:
Bonhams Art Gallery
101 New Bond Street
London, W1
More about The Matter of the Soul
Music and Artworks available from Kat Austen on Bandcamp