Kate Walker

Associate Professor
katewalker.co.nz

1. And I Feel Fine 
   Video, 8:02 minutes
   2020
   


2. Interchange
   Mixed media
   120” x 144”
   2021
   Photo credit Carrie Quinney
   
   
3. Interchange (detail)
   Mixed media
   120” x 144”
   2021
   Photo credit Carrie Quinney

My work encompasses painting, performance and video. Recent projects focus on queer bodies, and utopian and dystopian imaginings in popular culture.        
                                            
In the painting installation Interchange, reference images, daily ephemera, media clippings and paint on vinyl and canvas provide multiple perspectives on the climate crises and coronavirus pandemic drawing connections between these. 

And I Feel Fine features heartfelt apocalyptic singing, at Boise Idaho’s original gay bar, intercut with performer interviews, on fears and hopes for the world they inherit, layered with nuclear energy instructional video, old music videos and storm reporting footage, in a strange blend of joyous anxiety.