DARK MATTER [2009]
Première: 21 > 22/11/2009 - Kaaistudio's, Brussels (B)
Let me just say this - tonight is a night of stripping, tonight is a night of peeling away, layer by layer by layer by layer - What will be left? What will we know at the end of it all? Much less! That's what!
Let's begin....
DARK MATTER is the new performance from Kate McIntosh hosted by a woman in a spotlight, dressed in a sparkling dress and a long grey beard...
DE-PLACED [2008]
Over one summer meeting Kate McIntosh and Eva Meyer-Keller came up with a game. Shifting through the city, from inside to out, they constructed small installations in the locations they found. They played a ping-pong of images between them - each action challenging the other to a reply. The result is a collection of short actions and unlikely installations - a constantly expanding inventory of the world, through mischievous re-placements of the things in it. The project is endless....
LOOSE PROMISE [2007]
Some stories are treason, some are dreamy, some are brutal, some are too funny to believe, some are too painful to tell straight, some are magical and others are poorly made, some might be the honest truth, and some are beautiful but hard to remember. A narrative is a slippery thing.
Kate McIntosh has collaborated with five writers to make the performance text for LOOSE PROMISE. She gave each of them the same set of narrative ingredients to start from, but asked each to write their own version of the story. The result is a collection of beautiful, difficult and compelling narratives. The stories are bound by their shared origin, but they head out in very different and surprising directions. The narratives of LOOSE PROMISE create worlds that echo each other, and yet can hardly co-exist. The performance itself, sparked by a fascination with the interdependence of stories, explores our compulsion to keep forming and digesting them....
HAIR FROM THE THROAT [2006]
It began with a true story - a man found drowned in a shallow river, wearing a home-made fish-suit. This passionate yet doomed attempt to escape from his own human-ness was the sparking point for Hair From the Throat .
What happens if we want to escape human nature? The blurred distinction between animal and human appeals to us while at the same time filling us with distaste. In Hair from the Throat there is a plenty of experimentation with radical self-transformation and amateurish attempts at animalism.
ALL NATURAL [2004]
A Las Vegas showgirl emerges from a month lost in the forest - muddy, disheveled and more animal than human. Somebody explains the expenses involved in being authentic. One woman reads pheromones. Another explains her 'instinct for failure'.
McIntosh began All Natural by picking at the myth of naturalness and our craving for it - in everything from personality to food. As if our instincts, however deeply buried and warped, might be trusted to lead us out of trouble.
'I have an instinct for failure, I can smell it coming. It's a natural thing. Yeah I can smell it now...'
