Event overview
Can a theatre director find happiness without actors? (Spoiler: yes! With small boxes and big sounds).
This presentation, from Australian artist and researcher Dr. Kate Hunter, explores her creative evolution from live performance towards miniature, immersive, audio-driven pieces. This pivot in form – initially a pragmatic decision to create work that was more mobile, economical, and sustainable – has inadvertently shaped her artistic process to consider the ways in which listening functions as a dramaturgical device. By positioning the act of listening – from microscopic to global scales – as both methodology and subject, she proposes an expanded dramaturgical framework that emphasizes felt experience as a profound way of making meaning.
Biography
Kate Hunter is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, improvisation, painting, and sound. Her work employs innovative use of found objects, polyphonics and verbatim recordings to examine the complex interplay between hearing, listening, reading and speaking that is implicit in the ways humans communicate through language.
Performances include Memorandum (Theatre Works, Melbourne, 2014; JSPAC, Sydney, 2015) The Waiting Room (with Born In A Taxi, Melbourne, Brisbane 2010-2015) and Earshot (2017-2019). More recent works juxtapose technologies, storytelling and the live body with installation, sound and carboard cutouts, and include Near Sighted at fortyfivedownstairs in 2023. In 2024 she created The Symphony Series (with Rea Dennis) with award-winning Rawcus Theatre, and Lick/Leccata (with Katie Lee, Luigi Vescio, and Annette Wagner) at the European Cultural Centre for the 2024 Venice Biennale.
Kate reviews performance and interdisciplinary work regularly for The Conversation, and was Australian writer-in-residence at Chamber Made’s 2022 Hi-Viz Practice Exchange. She was associate artist with physical theatre company Born in a Taxi for 15 years, and has trained extensively in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Viewpoints and Composition. She has studied in New York with Anne Bogart and SITI Company, the UK with Ruth Kanner and Andrew Morrish, and with acclaimed theatre director Richard Schechner. She is currently Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance at Deakin University, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
katehuntertheatre.com
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 28 Oct 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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