Worktable 2011
Worktable is a live installation, open to visitors for several hours or days.
Worktable takes place in a series of rooms – you must sign in to enter and you can stay as long as you like. Once inside there are instructions, equipment and safety goggles so you can get to work – it's up to you to decide how things come apart and fall together.
Sign in and get to work!
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In Many Hands 2016
Over the last decade, Kate McIntosh's works have physically involved audiences in many ways – breaking apart domestic objects to make new inventions from the fragments (“Worktable” 2011), becoming orchestras (“All Ears” 2013), or melting into a jelly lake (“Lake Life” 2023). These playful invitations create unusual social spaces, where audiences can explore both shared connection and individual agency.
A classic work from this series, “In Many Hands” (2016) is a celebration of sensory skills leading the audience deep into a tactile and multi-sensory world of testing, touching, listening and sniffing. Without words, the audience enters a series of sensory-situations where they can handle materials and immerse themselves in corporeal phenomena.
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Kate McIntosh
New Zealand
https://spinspin.be/practice/kate-mcintosh/
Kate McIntosh (1974) is an artist who practices across the boundaries of performance, theatre and installation. Her works often focus on the physicality of both performer and audience, the manipulation of objects and materials, and the development of direct relations with and between audience members. She has ongoing fascinations with the sensory, transformation, collectivity, animal-human connections, destruction, mess, humour, care. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand and trained in dance – since 2004 McIntosh developed an internationally recognized body of stage and trans-disciplinary work which tours extensively in Europe as well as to Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
Her stage works include performance solos and group performances. Her installation works include video and interactive-installations. Kate holds an MRes in Performance and Creative Research from Roehampton University (UK) and regularly teaches performance practice within various university courses.