Katherine Bauer
BIO
Manipulates the photochemical and the cinematic apparatus encompassing the practices of moving and still image, installation and live performance. Bauer invokes mythologies and folklore as told through the means of obsolete technologies fusing them with mineral and vegital communications, chemistry and compost. She is represented by Microscope Gallery (New York) and her films are in distribution through The Film-Makers Cooperative of New York and Light Cone (France). Her work has been exhibited and screened at; Hybris Festival (Brazil), The Pompidou Center (France), Lausanne Underground Film Festival (Switzerland), Estudio Teorema (Mexico), Shoot the Lobster (Germany); Anthology Film Archives and The Museum of the Moving Image (New York) among others. She is also one of the touring 16mm projectionists for the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2022,2024). Bauer received a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant (2023). Her work has been reviewed in the Millenium Film Journal, ArtForum, and the Village Voice among others. She holds a BA in Film Arts from Bard College and a MFA from NYU Steinhardt in Studio Art. She is currently one of the presidents of the collective film laboratory Atelier MTK (France). She also studied herbalism and worked on various biodynamic farms for almost a decade namely The Abode (New York). She was born in Houston, Texas and currently lives and works between New York and France.