Kat Macdonald’s work focuses on activations of agency and desire through collective performance, pedagogy and antropology as represented in the creation of landscapes of desire.
Having received her MA in Experimental Music from Brunel University in 2018, she has gone on to make work both within collectives and independently, having worked as the resident sound and sensor artist for the Design And Performance Lab between 2017 - 2022 under the direction of choreographer and dance technologist Johannes Birringer designing custom sound and visual software and working with wearable sensors.
Making between disciplines, Kat works with sound, visuals, the web, sculptural work, choreography, scoring and performance, in addition to site-specific installations. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals such as DRHA, Lumbung Radio Assembly, Intimidades Públicas (ICNOVA), The World Transformed, and more.
Her current practice explores our engagements with space, both public and private, looking at the ways in which privatisation has affected our capacity for self-expression and protest. Through this she wishes to take seriously that which is lost in the aim of progress, to inform more holistic and nuanced understandings of contemporary landscapes.
She runs the London Community Laptop Orchestra (2024 - ), an all-abilities, community-organised laptop orchestra, inspired by groups such as the 1969 - 1974 Scratch Orchestra, with a focus on guerrilla performances, using the laptop as a tool for collective creative engagement.
She has worked as an artist, a technician, a chef, a graphic designer, a web designer, a sales assistant, a social media manager, a bartender, an art handler, a kitchen porter, a communications manager, in IT, in convenience stores, in cafes, in galleries, in nightclubs, in advertising, in offices, out of offices, in the field, in the studio, in the garden and internationally.
Previously know or made work under the following names: Dee Kathleen Egan, A-Kin, Drew Egan and Andrew Egan.
portfolio - under maintenance
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
shedding at Gallery Puzic, Saarbruken, Germany - 2024
Work, From Home at Her Home, London, England - 2023
Multi-Band Excitation at Lumbung Radio Assembly, Berlin, Germany - 2025
Multi-Band Excitation at Robida Collective, Topolo, Italy - 2025
Shedding Femme at Detritus, Tension Fine Art, London, England - 2021
She / They / He at Metafizikel, Artaud Performance Centre, London, England - 2018
Manipulated Labour at Peopling The Palace, Peoples Palace, London, England - 2018
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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
Noisy Spaces at does cloud compute (ever) precipitate?, ANNEX, The Koppel Project, London, England - 2026
Switched On: Goldberg at Bach Vespers, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, New York, USA - 2025
Peter and The Wolf And The Hedgehog with the Peckham Chamber Orchestra, Summer Concert, London, England - 2025
a river of no one with the DAP Lab at The Telepresence Stage, Online - 2022
mourning for a dead moon with the DAP Lab at the Artaud Performance Centre, London, England - 2019
X-Body at The Place, London, England - 2019
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SELECTED FESTIVALS
Musica, Manchester, England - 2026
The World Transformed, Manchester, England - 2025
Lumbung Radio Assembly, Berlin, Germany - 2025
Intimidades Públicas, ICNOVA, NOVA Communication Institute, Lisbon, Portugal - 2024
Designing/Performing Agency for the Anthropocene, Berlin, Germany - 2021
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IN RESIDENCY
Radio Gardening Summer School, Academy of Margins, Robida, Topolo, Italy - 2025
Teleprencestage Research Project, Digital - 2022
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IN PRINT
Narrowcasting: A Multi-Band Narrative, TRANSMISSIONS: Radio Essays on Edges, Crossings and Narrowcasting Borderlands, Robida Collective - 2025