2008
How I became an artist Part 1:
From just a twinkle in my father's eye
to
pre-pubescence
Live
'short' featuring slides
from Katie’s family slide collection. This slideshow
lecture takes an in depth
look at Katie’s early career.
“At the age of two,
after a brief
flirtation with a career as a bare back horse rider, I
returned to my first calling as a
performance artist and, having mastered the art of
walking, began
a series of
investigations into the world around me. ‘Peek a boo’, a
site specific collaboration with my
mother in the
park, explored notions of
presence
and absence, and of the
fragile nature of existence.”
Performed
at: David Gales Peachy
Coochy Nite, Artsadmin, London, Rules and Regs
Network Meeting, Artsadmin, London, Testing Grounds,
Permanant Gallery,
Brighton
2008
Faceback TM
Network
Engineer Katie Etheridge
presents Faceback TM. Join the Faceback TM
community and
meet real live people!
Its as easy as
having your photo taken.
Your face is turned into a badge and
worn by someone
you
haven’t met yet. Your
mission
is to get your Face back!
Who’s got your
Face?
Faceback
TM was originally
commissioned by New Work Network for The
National Review of Live Art 08,
Glasgow. Original concept Katie Etheridge and
Marcus Ripley.
Faceback
is available for festivals, conferences, launch parties, seminars etc.
Current clients include SPNM and
Battersea Arts
Centre. Please contact
Katie for further information.
2007
Following me…
A
guided tour created for the launch of The Basement,
Brighton. With the
help of
her third eye Katie gave guests a
humorous
multi-sensory
glimpse into the past
and future of
this former printworks.
2007
Shed Lives
A
living museum of displaced objects re-housed in a garden shed. Katie
spent two
weeks in Hastings sifting through the
physical
debris of
everyday lives, collecting
unwanted
objects from street
corners and
junk shops, and interviewing local
hoarders
about their passion for
things others have discarded. In the shed, visitors
exchanged
stories
with Katie and handled objects, contemplating the lives they
had
passed
through. Co-commissioned by Fresh and Coastal Currents.
Performed at: Coastal Currents,
Hastings
Installation at:
Old Clock Shop,
Brighton
2006
The Hollow Lady
An
exploration of inner space played out through the intimate spectacle of
self-examination. Audiences are invited
to look
through Katie’s unique
‘window
on within’ to find out what lurks in the
void
between spine and
skin. Live video
installation
performance with soundscape by Armchair
Astronaut.
Performed
at: Fresh @ Coastal
Currents, Hastings, Sensitive
Skin, Nottingham,
National Review of Live
Art, Glasgow, Fresh
@ South Hill Park
2006
A Short History of Silence
2005
Katie
takes the driving seat for an intimate journey through a town’s noisy
past
and
present. A site-specific
performance installation that invites
audiences to
think and talk
about silence, in the cosy confines of the
back seat of a car
disguised as a
haystack.
Performed
at: Fresh @ Southampton
Live, Winchester Hat Fair, Fresh @ Big Day Out,
South Hill Park, Bracknell, Fresh
@ Maltings Festival, Farnham, Rules
and Regs, Farnham Maltings
2005
I’ve got something to show you/ They called her the Electric Ballerina
Show-woman/flasher/archivist/human
mutoscope, Katie peels back her clothes to
reveal an
in-built miniature
cinema. A burlesque ‘beauty’ flickers to life on the
tiny screen, your
private dancer. In this intimate video installation performance
Katie
literally draws audience members into the bosom of her cinemarchive.
Performed at: Garden of Delights,
Manchester, National
Review of Live Art, Glasgow
2005
Kitty Deplihez’s Animated Pictures
2004
2003
A
series of short films informed and inspired by the exuberant
experimentation of
cinema’s
pioneers and early dance
on film, evoking a
world of flimsy exotica,
absurd storylines and physical
impossibilities, where nameless not–so-lovelies
dance their hearts out
for the camera.
Installations
at: Streetlife,
Bracknell, Winchester
Hat Fair, The Old Clock Shop, Brighton
Screenings at: Elevator,
Luxembourg, Cinecity,
Brighton, 291 Gallery,
London, Winchester Hat
Fair
2002
All That Remains
2001
A
two part installation that set out to explore the desire to collect and
hold onto
the past
by examining the
relationship between object and
memory through
dance, digital video, collected objects
and sound.
Installations
at: Hastings Museum and
Art Gallery, National Review of Live Art,
Glasgow, Installing
Dance, Placing Gesture, Chisenhale Dance Space,
University of Brighton
Degree Show
Collaborative
Projects and Performances
2007
Phil
Smith- Mobile Machinoeki
Four
week project mixing exploratory wandering and narrative-based
performance. Katie worked with Phil Smith and Anoushka Athique to
create three mis-guided tours, perform a show in tea shops, pubs, and
visitor centres based on their wanderings, and finally spend a week on
the road promoting hyper-aware wandering in Teignbridge, South Devon
2006-2008
Ragroof Theatre- Shall We Dance?
Katie
is a performer/devisor with this outdoor touring show designed for
bandstands and inspired by local older peoples memories of dancing and
courting from the roaring twenties to the thrifty fifties. Katie and
The Old Clock Shop were also commissioned by Ragroof Theatre to create
an interpretive installation to accompany the show based around oral
histories collected in the research process.
Performed
at: Coastal Currents, Hastings (’06 and ’07), Capital Age Festival,
London, Watch This Space, National Theatre, London (06’and ’07), Hoxton
Square, London, Streets Ahead, Manchester, Celebrating Age, Brunswick
Square, Hove, Calverley Park, Tunbridge Wells
2005
Clock
Works- A Series of Time Pieces
Pilot
project co-curated and co-produced by Katie Etheridge and Dorothy Max
Prior. Over 3 weeks, 13 artists from the South East bought
round-the-clock installation and performance to the window of The Old
Clock Shop on a busy road in Brighton.
2004
Cabinet
Portrait
Collaboration
with M.P.Ripley. A shop window becomes the site for an old specimen
cabinet to reveal both its public and private collections. Installation
at The Old Clock Shop, Brighton
1997-2008
B-Side
Since
1997 Katie has performed both solo and with a variety of acts at
numerous clubs and cabaret nights including performances at
Glastonbury, Lost Vagueness, Groucho Club, Salvador Dali Museum, and
Komedia. She is currently a choreographer and designer for bespoke
events company The Cheek of It.
Katie
also has a long working relationship with experimental sound collective
Armchair Astronaut (www.armchair-astronaut.com) producing and hosting
live performances in Brighton, and has performed at home and abroad
with comedy cabaret punk poppers, The Las Vegas Mermaids, as a novelty
comic dancer.
Writing
2003-2004
Reviewer and feature writer for Total Theatre Magazine.
Training
BA
Hons Dance and Visual Art (First Class), University of Brighton, 2001
Forkbeard
Fantasy Summer School, July 2004
Rose
English, ‘Abstract Vaudeville’, November 2004
Head
to Head, Basement Arts, Brighton 2005,2006
Acknowledgements
Katie
Etheridge is a supported artist of The Basement, Brighton. Katie is
grateful for past support from ArtsAgenda, Fresh, and Arts Council
England, South East. I’ve Got Something to Show You and The Hollow Lady
were supported by mentoring from Rose English. The Hollow Lady and the
2006 Hollow Lady/Short History of Silence tour were produced by
ArtsAgenda.
