kat's blog
hi! I’m kat, i make sound, performance and visual art in london (and further afield). i run the london community laptop orchestra.
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I’ve taken a pause in recent years from discussing or really commenting on my transness on public platforms, mostly from an exhaustion with the ways in which its dominated my adult life, but also because I’ve not really known what to say or how to comment on things. Reading <a...
postcards and choreography - 21/01/2025
a reintroduction to my world the past few years has been the postcard. i don’t particularly remember receiving many as a kid but i do remember sending them whenever we moved (and we moved a lot!), normally to mark the move and make a gesture at staying in touch that...
i miss the kitchen - 24/11/2024
back in 2018, fresh out of a postgrad in experimental music and struggling to make rent, i got a job working in paradise slice, a pizza shop located on brick lane, east londons tourist hub and food street (note, far from my favourite, just the most popular). paradise slice was...
i want to be an artist? - 24/10/2024
recently, i’ve been re-reading pedagogy of the oppressed, the 1960’s Marxist analysis of pedagogy and oppression dynamics by brazilian scholar Paulo Freire. i read excerpts of it years ago while borrowing my ex’s university lecture print outs and going through the reading lists. studying a music degree, our reading...
citation and credit - 20/10/2024
recently i’ve been thinking about citation and influence, how we credit the ideas, works and people that inspire us. i think we sorely lack a comprehensive and representative language for how we mark the turning points of the creative process.
this is part of my love for the social media...
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