Nelly Kate

sound • video • print

studio : 6 Vernon Street, 3rd floor, #52A
email : iamnellykate@gmail.com
instagram : @ecstatic.magic
web : nellykate.net

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statement

I use lo-fi mechanisms like reel-to-reel tape loops, electronic synthesizers, stop-motion animations, and radio frequencies. These tactile materials illuminate the terrestrial and electromagnetic phenomena which our bodies sense but cannot readily name.

bio

Nelly Kate (she/her) is a transdisciplinary artist cultivating ecosystems of inclusion through time-based media, print, and the lens of Queer and Deaf experience. 

Nelly grew up in the American South, where she established a career in music and sound design. Her early work led her to tour nationally and to share the stage with artists such as tUnE-yArDs, Mirah, and Angel Olsen. Community-driven projects led her to focus on public engagement through installations of oral history projects, interactive sculpture, and itinerant walks.

In 2015, Nelly Kate turned her focus to inaudible sound—exploring captions, sonic visualizations, and haptics. During her MFA candidacy at Cranbrook Academy of Art (2021), she developed a technique for utilizing suminagashi marbling and fluid cymatics to make ‘sound prints’.
 
Currently, Nelly is a member of Now + There’s 6th Accelerator Cohort, working on a public art work that offers a space for engaging with sound across the senses — as visualizations, haptic phenomena, and through transference.