Bedroom, 2021
Installation and performance
Vitalstatistix, Tarntanya, Adelaide
24 - 27 June
Bedroom is a debut performance work evoking reflection, justice, and following the gut. Drawing on performed text, choreography and sculptural installation, Bedroom explores the space of internalising the pervasive domination that many bodies experience and the embodied expulsion of anger and grief that many seek; delivered through a visceral and charged performance that is full of humour and grace.
Dramaturg and director – Sarah Rodigari
Lighting Design – Meg Wilson
Sound design – Lauren Abineri
Choreographic consultant – Alison Currie
Brokered and supported by Vitalstatistix and funded by Arts South Australia.
Documentation by Sam Roberts
Installation and performance
Vitalstatistix, Tarntanya, Adelaide
24 - 27 June
Bedroom is a debut performance work evoking reflection, justice, and following the gut. Drawing on performed text, choreography and sculptural installation, Bedroom explores the space of internalising the pervasive domination that many bodies experience and the embodied expulsion of anger and grief that many seek; delivered through a visceral and charged performance that is full of humour and grace.
Dramaturg and director – Sarah Rodigari
Lighting Design – Meg Wilson
Sound design – Lauren Abineri
Choreographic consultant – Alison Currie
Brokered and supported by Vitalstatistix and funded by Arts South Australia.
Documentation by Sam Roberts
Mucosa
Collaborative exhibition with Kate Bohunnis, 2021
Outerspace, Meeanjin, Brisbane
28 August - 25 September
Mucosa is the first collaborative project between South Australian artists Kate Bohunnis and Kate Power. Following a decade of friendship, this collaboration embraces trust through not knowing and valuing conversation over mastery as a way to create new perspectives.
Through experimentation with gesture, material limits are tested with a confluence between holding and collapsing to challenge systems of control, offering an alternative of empowering vulnerability and humorous deviation. Suggesting a symbiosis and employing friendship as a methodology for making, we hope to propose a precarious optimism.
Exhibition text, by Louise R Mayhew
Documentation by Louis Lim
Collaborative exhibition with Kate Bohunnis, 2021
Outerspace, Meeanjin, Brisbane
28 August - 25 September
Mucosa is the first collaborative project between South Australian artists Kate Bohunnis and Kate Power. Following a decade of friendship, this collaboration embraces trust through not knowing and valuing conversation over mastery as a way to create new perspectives.
Through experimentation with gesture, material limits are tested with a confluence between holding and collapsing to challenge systems of control, offering an alternative of empowering vulnerability and humorous deviation. Suggesting a symbiosis and employing friendship as a methodology for making, we hope to propose a precarious optimism.
Exhibition text, by Louise R Mayhew
Documentation by Louis Lim
When you open your mouth to speak, 2018
West Space, Naarm, Melbourne
5 July- 18 August
When you open your mouth to speak attempts to process grief through a repetitive and accumulative process that reconsiders studio detritus as material that has been put aside. Employing materiality to explore the interconnection of the body and mind in a time of discomfort, When you open your mouth to speak continues Power’s interest in embodying emotional states and relations through artistic practice.
Documentation by Chris Crocker
West Space, Naarm, Melbourne
5 July- 18 August
When you open your mouth to speak attempts to process grief through a repetitive and accumulative process that reconsiders studio detritus as material that has been put aside. Employing materiality to explore the interconnection of the body and mind in a time of discomfort, When you open your mouth to speak continues Power’s interest in embodying emotional states and relations through artistic practice.
Documentation by Chris Crocker
Stories from the interior... Em(brace)
Collaboration with Susie Fraser, 2018
Exhibited in Into My Arms, curated by Frances Barrett and Toby Chapman at ACE Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
11 May - 7 July
Kate Power & Susie Fraser’s collaborative project, Stories from the Interior…Em/brace (2018), is a supportive conversational process that allows both artists to lean on one another for their respective needs. The process embraces healing rituals, resilience and the constructive power of uncertainty in order to encourage new ways of working toward momentum and sustainability in their practices.
Exhibition catalogue
Collaboration with Susie Fraser, 2018
Exhibited in Into My Arms, curated by Frances Barrett and Toby Chapman at ACE Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
11 May - 7 July
Kate Power & Susie Fraser’s collaborative project, Stories from the Interior…Em/brace (2018), is a supportive conversational process that allows both artists to lean on one another for their respective needs. The process embraces healing rituals, resilience and the constructive power of uncertainty in order to encourage new ways of working toward momentum and sustainability in their practices.
Exhibition catalogue
Unknowing, 2017
Exhibited in Track, curated by Sasha Grbich & Andrew Purvis at Central Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
20 Feb - 18 March
From the exhibition catalogue: “There is intimacy in the installation, with small screens nestled inside the amplified texture of a false wall. These videos present tightly enclosed and ambiguous personal spaces. They feel like peep-holes, offering glimpses of private rituals occurring behind public facades. A hand runs its fingers over different surfaces and objects. The hand gloved in fat sausagy fingers is clunky, cartoonish and fumbly. It is an uncomfortable version of a hand and what feeling clumsy looks like. These not-quite-fingers are touching a not-quite-wall. I find myself imagining that this hand is thinking of something else while its fingers tease surfaces absent-mindedly. The bloated digits suggest a struggle to communicate by touch, like trying to speak in a foreign language”.
Documentation by Grant Hancock
Exhibited in Track, curated by Sasha Grbich & Andrew Purvis at Central Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
20 Feb - 18 March
From the exhibition catalogue: “There is intimacy in the installation, with small screens nestled inside the amplified texture of a false wall. These videos present tightly enclosed and ambiguous personal spaces. They feel like peep-holes, offering glimpses of private rituals occurring behind public facades. A hand runs its fingers over different surfaces and objects. The hand gloved in fat sausagy fingers is clunky, cartoonish and fumbly. It is an uncomfortable version of a hand and what feeling clumsy looks like. These not-quite-fingers are touching a not-quite-wall. I find myself imagining that this hand is thinking of something else while its fingers tease surfaces absent-mindedly. The bloated digits suggest a struggle to communicate by touch, like trying to speak in a foreign language”.
Documentation by Grant Hancock
a condition for doing things together
A collaborative project with Catherine Parsonage, 2017
Performance and 20:19m single-channel video
British School at Rome, Italy
a condition for doing things together is a collaboration with Catherine Parsonage that uses friendship as a methodology for making. The performance creates a concentrated awareness of the individual body while the elastic space between the artists vacillates between struggle and support.
Video excerpt
A collaborative project with Catherine Parsonage, 2017
Performance and 20:19m single-channel video
British School at Rome, Italy
a condition for doing things together is a collaboration with Catherine Parsonage that uses friendship as a methodology for making. The performance creates a concentrated awareness of the individual body while the elastic space between the artists vacillates between struggle and support.
Video excerpt
Found Wanting, 2017
Two-channel video, 19:35m
Exhibited in A Stranger Comes To Town, curated by Jiyeon Paik
Gallery Sejul, Seoul
Found Wanting reflects on feeling alienated from both others and oneself and ways of privately processing experiences and unnamable spaces. The doughy material is manipulated to consider the interconnection of mental and physical states.
Videography by Sarah Graham
Video excerpt
Two-channel video, 19:35m
Exhibited in A Stranger Comes To Town, curated by Jiyeon Paik
Gallery Sejul, Seoul
Found Wanting reflects on feeling alienated from both others and oneself and ways of privately processing experiences and unnamable spaces. The doughy material is manipulated to consider the interconnection of mental and physical states.
Videography by Sarah Graham
Video excerpt
Things Between You and Me, 2016
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Tarntanya, Adelaide
9 April - 15 May
Documentatiom by Grant Hancock
Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
Tarntanya, Adelaide
9 April - 15 May
Documentatiom by Grant Hancock
The Desiring Machine, 2016
Three-channel video embedded in a wall
The Desiring Machine explores modes of developing knowledge through material play and considers how ambiguous states can be processed. It responds to the imaginative places that are created in order to process experiences.
Video excerpt
Three-channel video embedded in a wall
The Desiring Machine explores modes of developing knowledge through material play and considers how ambiguous states can be processed. It responds to the imaginative places that are created in order to process experiences.
Video excerpt
Coming Across To You, 2015
Liverpool Street Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Coming Across To You is an installation that considers unspoken subtle moments in human interactions. It focuses on seemingly insignificant everyday exchanges between people. Observing that people are often performing identity in order to fit with societal structures, these forms suggest an inflated performance, self-aggrandisement, unconscious desires, and the humour of attempting to relate to others.
Liverpool Street Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Coming Across To You is an installation that considers unspoken subtle moments in human interactions. It focuses on seemingly insignificant everyday exchanges between people. Observing that people are often performing identity in order to fit with societal structures, these forms suggest an inflated performance, self-aggrandisement, unconscious desires, and the humour of attempting to relate to others.
all that effort and desire, 2015
Fontanelle Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Documentation by Grant Hancock
Fontanelle Gallery, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Documentation by Grant Hancock
Tabletop Dancer and Simone, 2014
Exhibited in Grid Festival, curated by Adele Sliuzas and Sundari Carmody at Dymaxion Lab, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Documentation by Grant Hancock
Exhibited in Grid Festival, curated by Adele Sliuzas and Sundari Carmody at Dymaxion Lab, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Documentation by Grant Hancock
Ustopia, 2013
FELTspace, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Ustopia presents an alternate experience - heightening senses in attempt to decipher the truth from reality by depicting an 'in between' state. Within our lives we often fail to absorb things that are strange and unfamiliar, sticking to our learned understanding of what exists and belongs. Ustopia is perceptions of an 'in between' state, questioning the limits of our experiences.
FELTspace, Tarntanya, Adelaide
Ustopia presents an alternate experience - heightening senses in attempt to decipher the truth from reality by depicting an 'in between' state. Within our lives we often fail to absorb things that are strange and unfamiliar, sticking to our learned understanding of what exists and belongs. Ustopia is perceptions of an 'in between' state, questioning the limits of our experiences.
