Katie Lee Dunbar was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK and has been based in Berlin since 2009. As a non-binary, queer feminist performance maker, educator, activist and researcher they explore themes of disparity, intimacy and the intersection between the personal and political through their practice in dance, voice, memory, sound, text and installation. Their collective work centres around maintaining non-oppressive spaces for exchange, as seen in their role as project coordinator for arted, an Erasmus+ project led by Leeds Beckett University.
Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2008 with a BA Honours in Fine Art, Katie has worked as a freelance artist and activist. They completed a Performance Making Masters at Goldsmiths University, London, in 2022, achieving a distinction. In 2020 Katie received the Berliner Projektfonds kulturelle Bildung for mitkollektiv, a collaborative project with teachers and artists to develop power-critical, anti-racist, creative methods for schools. As a producer and curator, Katie co-founded Reflektor in 2013, a performance series and festival that focused on the interplay between sound and performance, including a podcast Blue Print, a place for shared research and young marginalised voices.
Katie has been invited to show their work at many international festivals, exhibitions, and theatres including in London, Berlin, Kaunas, LA and Bangalore. Working across disciplines, their praxis is rooted in embodied experience and seeks to confront predetermined systems. In COMMON, Katie links their father's suicide to the wider social economic landscape in the north east of England. Ripples addresses the erasure and lack of representation and equity in queer conception and childhood. Katie was awarded the Jury prize for the 100 Grad festival, and residency at Eastside International, LA in 2016 They have collaborated with artists including Ron Athey, Sean Griffin, Shannon Cooney and Non-Grata.
Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2008 with a BA Honours in Fine Art, Katie has worked as a freelance artist and activist. They completed a Performance Making Masters at Goldsmiths University, London, in 2022, achieving a distinction. In 2020 Katie received the Berliner Projektfonds kulturelle Bildung for mitkollektiv, a collaborative project with teachers and artists to develop power-critical, anti-racist, creative methods for schools. As a producer and curator, Katie co-founded Reflektor in 2013, a performance series and festival that focused on the interplay between sound and performance, including a podcast Blue Print, a place for shared research and young marginalised voices.
Katie has been invited to show their work at many international festivals, exhibitions, and theatres including in London, Berlin, Kaunas, LA and Bangalore. Working across disciplines, their praxis is rooted in embodied experience and seeks to confront predetermined systems. In COMMON, Katie links their father's suicide to the wider social economic landscape in the north east of England. Ripples addresses the erasure and lack of representation and equity in queer conception and childhood. Katie was awarded the Jury prize for the 100 Grad festival, and residency at Eastside International, LA in 2016 They have collaborated with artists including Ron Athey, Sean Griffin, Shannon Cooney and Non-Grata.
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