| I work with live performance, video, installation, and sound, to create work for a variety of contexts including site-specific events, museums, and indoor and outdoor festivals. My work is often concerned with bringing to life lost, hidden, and imagined histories through intimate encounters with audiences. I love working outside in streets and fields, and enjoy projects that create the possibility for meaningful connections with local people and places.
Solo works
| 2007 |
Following me…
A guided tour created for the launch of The Basement, Arts Production South East. With the help of her third eye Katie gave guests a humorous multi-sensory glimpse into the past and future of this former printworks. |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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| 2005 – 2006 |
A short history of Silence
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
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| 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 |
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| 2003 – 2005 |
Kitty Deplihez's Animated Pictures
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 |
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| 2001 – 2002 |
All That Remains
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 |
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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 |
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| 2006 – 2007 |
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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 1997 – 2007 |
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.
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Writing
| 2003 – 2004 |
Reviewer and feature writer for Total Theatre Magazine. |
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 |
| Katie Etheridge is grateful for 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.
Katie is delighted to join the supported artists at Basement Arts Production South East. |
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