Kate McIntosh [NZ/BE]

Worktable

Worktable
Worktable
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24.10 – 28.10.2018

Worktable is an installation with various rooms that you explore one by one. Once inside, you are given instructions, equipment, safety goggles, and materials that you can use. It's up to you to decide how things come apart: Kate McIntosh gives you a hammer, you do the rest.

The work of artist-in-residence Kate McIntosh transcends the boundaries of performance, theatre, video, and installation. The striking thing about her productions is that she always bridges the distance between the performers and the audience, as well as her preference for theatrical images. She is presenting three productions in the space of one week, playfully balancing on the intersection between science, entertainment, experiment, vaudeville, philosophy, and eclectic stories. Welcome to Kate’s universe!

‘Simple in conception but exceptional in its execution, Worktable is an enlightening and active meditation on the endless artistic cycle of tearing down and rebuilding. It may be easy to get lost in the highs and lows of this process in real time, but the distillation of the process McIntosh provides in her installation puts it all in perspective.’ – Stephen Eckert, Contemporary Performance, New York

concept and direction Kate McIntosh | technical coordination Clare Noonan | production Sarah Parolin | produced by SPIN | commissioned in the frame of the event 'Performance Is a Dirty Work' funded by Roehampton University | thanks to Bruno Roubicek, Hester Chillingworth, Caroline Daish, Palli Banine, Ant Hampton, Joe Kelleher, Tim Etchells, Adrian Heathfield, Simon Bay

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Kate McIntosh

In Many Hands

performance

In Many Hands
In Many Hands
Kaaitheater
Tue 23.10 - Wed 24.10.18

In In Many Hands, artist-in-residence Kate McIntosh explores tactility. She invites you to test and to touch, but also to listen and to smell. Along with other visitors, but without speaking, you will experiment with materials in a series of sensorial ‘situations’. In Many Hands is part laboratory, part expedition, part meditation: follow your nose and your curiosity!

Kate McIntosh

Worktable | also for kids [6+]

live installation

Worktable | also for kids [6+]
Worktable | also for kids [6+]
KANAL – Centre Pompidou
Sun 28.10.18

Worktable is an exciting installation with various rooms that you explore one by one. At the start you are given instructions, equipment, safety goggles, and materials that you can use. And then you get to work: let your creativity run free! Kate McIntosh gives you a hammer, you do the rest.

Kate McIntosh

Dark Matter

performance

Dark Matter
Dark Matter
Kaaitheater
Fri 26.10.18

Flanked by two clumsy assistants, artist-in-residence Kate McIntosh stands on the stage as a high priestess in a glittering gown. During a kind of revue, they passionately devote themselves to a series of household experiments. Dark Matter is an extremely funny production that simultaneously evokes a sense of ominousness.

‘A WORK CAN HAVE DEPTH BUT IT NEEDS A CLEAR SURFACE’

in conversation with Kate McIntosh

‘A WORK CAN HAVE DEPTH BUT IT NEEDS A CLEAR SURFACE’
‘A WORK CAN HAVE DEPTH BUT IT NEEDS A CLEAR SURFACE’

Interview

Wed 29.08.18

From 23 to 28 October choreographer and artist-in-residence at Kaaitheater Kate McIntosh is presenting three of her pieces in one week: Dark Matter (2009), Worktable (2011) and her latest performance In Many Hands (2016). Together the works show the evolution that has taken place in McIntosh’ practice: from being a stage animal to creating delicate dramaturgies, from silence to words to sound, but also the appearance of a lot of objects. We took advantage of the summer break to invite her for an in-depth interview.

Kate McIntosh

Kate McIntosh
Kate McIntosh

artist

Kaaitheater artist-in-residence 2017-2021