Exhibition Information:
Palaeoplasticene in Colliding Epistemes at Casa Tranzit by Cluj Cultural Centre, Cluj, Romania
7.7.2022-3.8.2022
Palaeoplasticene at Cluj Cultural Centre
Tag: Upcoming
Mapping Gender at Baltic is Curious
On Saturday Kat will be playing alongside Anders Duckworth’s performance of Mapping Gender as part BALTIC is Curious. Kat has collaborated with Anders on Mapping Gender over the last 2.5 years, creating the sound and music for this exhibition of performance, image, sound and research. It’s an invitation to see the parallels between cartography and clothing, to explore how society controls, shapes and demarcates both landscapes and human bodies – all told through the lens of non-binary experiences.
In creating the soundscape over the last two years Kat has carried out research in liminal spaces – at coasts, riversides and boundaries. In Saturday’s performance, she will use her hacked scientific equipment to play sounds from a water sample that she collected from the Baltic Sea in December last year alongside water from outside the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
Performance details:
Saturday 2nd July, 19:00 – 20:00
BALTIC
Gateshead NE8 3BA
Booking essential. Tickets GBP8-12.
Unearthing the Present @ HKW
Kat recently took part in two sessions at the MARKERS: MATERIAL DELINEATIONS OF THE PRESENT Anthropocene Curriculum event series as part of Unearthing the Present at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Conversations Beyond the Human
With Kat Austen, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke, Nigel Clark
and
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
With Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Kat Austen, Joana MacLean
Exploring Airborne Microplastics: Participatory Artistic Research workshop
Meeting point in the courtyard of the Museum Pankow:
Kultur- und Bildungszentrum Sebastian Haffner Hof
Prenzlauer Allee 227/228
10405 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg
Saturday 7th May
17:30-20:00
Microplastics are tiny particles of plastic found everywhere across the planet. The majority of plastic in the environment today is made from petrochemicals. Released into the environment continuously for decades, plastic and microplastic particles accumulate. As long-lived traces of human activity, microplastics can now be detected almost everywhere – even in the remotest areas. Building on her previous DIY research into microplastics in soil and water ecosystems and how they coexist with trees and rocks, join artist Kat Austen for these first explorations into catching airborne microplastics using adapted fog-catchers.
Presented in the context of the NEUSTART Kultur funded installation of Stranger to the Trees in Großer Wasserspeicher in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, this workshop involves participatory research into the reverberations of petrochemical products.
Registration: studio@katausten.com
Palaeoplasticene at Bozar Centre for Fine Art
Palaeoplasticene Platform and Installation will be shown in the Colliding Epistemes exhibition
Bozar Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
Exhibition Period: 6.5.2022-19.6.2022
Public opening 5th May 6:30pm
Panel Discussion: Shifting grounds of art-science collaborations in the age of a planetary crisis
5-6:30 pm, 5th May
Kat will also partipate in the panel discussion alongside Chus Martinez (Head of the Institute of Art Gender Nature of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland, ES), and Markos K. Digenis (marine biologist, GR), moderated by Maja & Reuben Fowkes (curators, UK).
Double Exhibition and Performance Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin
We are delighted to announce the double exhibition of Stranger to the Trees and This Land is Not Mine at the Großer Wasserspeicher, Berlin, alongside a live performance of This Land is Not Mine album and new workshop.
Exhibition Information
22nd April 2022 – 8th May 2022
Großer Wasserspeicher
Belforter Straße, 10405 Berlin
Exhibition opening: 22/04/2022, 6-10 pm, Großer Wasserspeicher
Opening hours: 23/04–08/05/2022, 12-8 pm daily, Thursdays 12–10 pm
This Land is Not Mine is premiering in the context of the Fossile Erfahrung exhibition by Prater Gallery in conversation with the solo exhibition of Stranger to the Trees in collaboration with post-gallery.online, presented in the context of Neustart Kultur.
Performance
Kat will perform the entire This Land is Not Mine album in the Kleiner Wasserspeicher on the Berlin Gallery Weekend.
More info: Performance Evening with Kat Austen and Elske Rosenfeld
30th April 2022
6-8 pm
Kleiner Wasserspeicher
Belforter Straße, 10405 Berlin
Workshop Participatory Artistic Research: Exploring Airborne Microplastics
7th May 2022
Date and Location TBC
Palaeoplasticene platform and Stranger to the Trees at Łaźnia, Gdansk
04.02.2022-03.04.2022
ŁAŹNIA Contemporary Art Centre, 1 Jaskółcza Streetand Strajku Dokerów 5, Gdańsk
Palaeoplasticene Platform and Stranger to the Trees are exhibited as part of COLLIDING EPISTEMES: ART, SCIENCE, ANTHROPOCENES.
Album performance ‘This Land is not Mine’ at ‘Strukturen im Wandel. Die Zukunft hat schon begonnen’
This Land is Not Mine | Album Performance
4th December 2021 at 7pm (1 hour)
Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst
Uferstrasse / Am Amtsteich 15
03046 Cottbus
How is the identity of Lusatia changing in the context of structural change in the region? This Land is Not Mine is an artistic research project by the artist Kat Austen, presented as an installation and an album of experimental music. Over a year and a half, Austen has explored the soundscapes of Lusatia, and has invited residents to an online platform where they contribute the sounds that characterise the landscape.
Austen uses scientific instruments that have been adapted to make sound, alongside hydrophones, to listen to the water and soil in Lusatia, including during a public workshop at the BLMK in September 2020.
From these recordings, Austen creates musical compositions that include traditional musical instruments, to create a full album that explores the various stories she has discovered in Lusatia throughout her research here.
In this closing performance of the Strukturwandel Exhibition at the BLMK, Austen will play for the first time the entire album and two bonus tracks. Austen will play her specially adapted scientific instruments using local water samples, alongside video projections contextualising the soundscapes, to create an immersive and moving journey through contemporary Lusatia.
Please check the BLMK website for current hygiene regulations
This Land is not Mine aired on ‘As If Radio’
‘Seeds’ from the album ‘This Land is Not Mine’ were aired on ‘As If Radio’ as part of their COP26 Programme.
This work focuses on the region of Lusatia, where Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic meet, the home of the Sorbian minority group. This project explores identity in a region of co-existing cultures that is undergoing fundamental socio-economic changes as brown coal mining in the region is phased out. Engaging with landscapes that are recovering from extraction give a hint to how we might face the challenges of the climate crisis, and a route towards creating a shared identity in the face of ecological crisis. The album ‘This Land is Not Mine’ is available for pre-order on Bandcamp, release date 10th December.
The livestream of “Blumen! Die Wissenschaftsshow” at Berlin Science Week with Francisca Rocha Goncalves
Kat Austen and Francisca Rocha Goncalves will be part of the Berlin Science Week with the livestream of “Blumen! Die Wissenschaftsshow” from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.
Their video will, based on their work and research at Leibniz Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB), focusses on More-than-Human Subjectivities on noise and light pollution.
This event can be attended digitally via livestream or in person at the Museum für Naturkunde with a limited number of participants.
Friday, November 5th at 4 pm – 5:30 pm
The event will take place in German and English.
