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Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty

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Our selected curriculum vitae is below; for a comprehensive curriculum vitae, please contact us. Please also make sure to take a look at all texts, articles, essays, and talks, and at all media, interviews, audio, and press.

Selected exhibitions and events:

5.–7. September, 2023 Sound Campus
Sound-art festival | Ars Electronica and Kunstuniversität Linz, Linz, Austria
Excerpts from Minute/Year are included in Sound Campus, a sound-art festival co-presented by Ars Electronica and Kunstuniversität Linz. Full details available here.
16.–21. June 2023 Minute/Year: Seven Years
Exhibition | Halfsister, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition presenting the archive of recordings and images generated by Minute/Year from 2016 to 2022. Full details are available here.
25. September, 2021 Harvest
Performance | Görlitzer Park, Berlin, Germany
Site-specific performance presented as part of the Sound→Walk→Berlin series of events.
3. September, 2021 Listening Back: Minute/Year 2020
Talk with accompanying performances | bb15, Linz, Austria
Presenting a talk, ‘Nine Streaks,’ about Minute/Year at bb15 in 2020. The event was also the release event for the tape, Minute/Year 2020, compiled and curated by Gabriela Gordillo and Sebastian Six from the recordings generated by Minute/Year throughout 2020. The event also featured live sets by Błażej Kotowski and Daphne Xanthopoulou.
22.–29. May, 2021 Carried Bells (Daily Walks)
Live-stream | Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Presenting Carried Bells (Daily Walks), a video work, as a live-stream on the Hošek Contemporary website.
13.–14. May, 2021 I am sitting in a room: Alvin Lucier’s 90th Birthday Celebration
Stream | Issue Project Room, New York City, USA
Two contributions to celebrations of Alvin Lucier’s ninetieth birthday presented by Issue Project Room, in which ninety artists were invited to contribute recordings of I am sitting in a room. The event was previewed in an article by Kerry O’Brien in the New York Times.
7.–13. September, 2020 Alluvium
Installation-performance | Ponderosa Unfestival 2020, Stolzenhagen, Germany
Week-long subterranean installation-performance.
12. August, 2020 Listening to the Universe — Radiophonien des Alls
Radio-art festival | Datscharadio, Berlin
Radio-art festival by Datscharadio. Presenting LES-1, Oreganoweg, August 2020, a live broadcast of the signal from the LES-1 satellite — which formed the core of the work Signal Tide — from Oreganoweg, the location of the Datscharadio studio in Berlin.
19. June–5. July, 2020 GlogauAIR Virtual Open Studios
Virtual open studios group exhibition | Presenting video excerpts from the research process for Other Trains. Held online due to coronavirus restrictions.
Presenting video excerpts from the research process for Other Trains. Held online due to coronavirus restrictions.
28. November–1. December, 2019 Minute/Year: Four Years
Presentation of archive | grüntaler9, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the archive generated by the first four years of Minute/Year, as a culmination of the time during which the work was installed in grüntaler9 in 2019.
13.–15. October, 2019 PARSE Research Conference
Video installation, talk | Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Presenting Minute/Year (Archive, 2016–2018), a three-channel video with sound, derived from the daily data generated by Minute/Year, and accompanying talk, presented at the third biennial PARSE Research Conference.
5.–25. October, 2019 Carried Bells
Exhibition and process-based installation | Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the work Carried Bells at Hošek Contemporary.
9. December, 2018 Nearness — New Sound and Performance Works
Shared event | ausland, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the process-based performance 1–100, alongside work by plan b.
29. October, 2017 1–100
Performance | Studio 2, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Process-based performance presented as part of the 60_minutes series of impro.per.arts.
21.–24. September, 2017 Signal Tide
Sound and extraterrestrial radio installation | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Installation presented by the Art + Technology Lab at LACMA. With musical collaborators David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hiss Tracts), Drew Barnet, James Hamilton. Full details available here.
12.–13. April, 2017 Projecto P!
Group exhibition, conference, festival | Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Presenting the durational installation Increments, at Chiado Museum (MNAC), Lisbon, as part of the exhibition, conference, and festival Projecto P!, curated by Pedro Rocha and Ana Pais.
23. February, 2017 Duo :: Duo
Shared performance event | Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA
Presenting the performative installation Accompanied Walk, as part of a shared event presenting duo collaborations, together with Abigail Levine and Paula Matthusen, at Beckham Hall, Wesleyan Center for the Arts.
19.–25. January, 2017 Minute/Year (2016)
Solo exhibition | Lite-Haus Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Exhibition presenting works derived from the 2016 iteration of the multi-year durational installation Minute/Year.
08. October, 2016 Afterglow
Site-specific installation | Musikbrauerei, Berlin, Germany
As part of the closing event of the current Digital in Berlin Kiezsalon series of concerts.
1.–24. April, 2016 Restructuring the Axis – Temporal and Spatial Investigations: Three Perspectives (Achsendenken – Fragen zu Zeit und Raum: Drei Perspektiven)
Group exhibition | Kunstkraftwerk, Leipzig, Germany
Presenting the durational installation Increments (as a five-hour-long event on April 2. and 3., 2016, and thereafter as a photo series and hourly audio remnant, for the duration of the Restructuring the Axis exhibition). Group exhibition, together with David Augusto Rios Alomia and Takahiro Ueda. Curated by Candace Goodrich.
21.-23. March, 2016 Increments und Minute/Year
Solo exhibition | Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Presenting Increments (as open rehearsal of durational installation) and Minute/Year (as video projection). Presented as part of the series Practice and Performance, curated by Kata Krasznahorkai and Lena Szirmay-Kalos.
1. January, 2016–present Minute/Year
Multi-year durational installation | Currently: Lely, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Multi-year, automated durational installation, running since January 1., 2016, and currently ongoing in Lely, Amsterdam.
6. December, 2015 XB Trio
Performance | XB-Liebig, Berlin, Germany
As part of the XB Matinee series.
19.–20. September, 2015 The Museum as Performance
Group exhibition | Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Presenting the durational installation Increments, as part of the exhibition The Museum as Performance, curated by Pedro Rocha, Cristina Grande, and Ricardo Nicolau. With Alex Cecchetti, Anastasia Ax & Lars Siltberg, Isabel Carvalho, Loreto Martínez Troncoso, Maria Hassabi, Musa Paradisiaca, New Noveta, and Vivo.
24. May, 2015 3AM
Group exhibition and event | Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the durational installation Accompanied Walk, as part of the 3AM series, curated by Julian Weber.
4. May, 2015 Montag Modus
Performance series event | Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the performative installation Accompanied Walk, as part of the inaugural event of the Montag Modus series, curated by Kata Krasznahorkai.
6.–7. November, 2014 Increments
Durational installation | ausland, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the durational installation Increments, over two evenings, as part of the Place Rhythm. Pulse series. Curated by Gretchen Blegen.
5. May, 2013 Neither Here Nor There: Contemporary Irish
Events programme of group exhibition | Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the performative installation Echoes (presented in the inner courtyard of Jägerstraße 51, Berlin, on 5. May, 2013) as part of the events programme of the exhibition Neither Here Nor There: Contemporary Irish, curated by Jane Hughes and Enda O’Donoghue.
12 January, 2012 My Body Engages in Work
Group performance event | Sophiensæle, Berlin, Germany
Presenting the performance Feet, as part of the evening programme My Body Engages in Work, one of the evenings of the Tanztage Berlin 2012 festival, curated by Peter Pleyer.

Grants, awards, and residencies:

September 2021 Projektförderung | Musikfonds, Berlin
Project support for presentation of Harvest. View full details here.
January–May, 2021 Stipendienprogramm | Musikfonds, Berlin
Stipendium in the context of the Neustart Kultur program supporting research on Other Trains. View full details here.
September 2020 Projektförderung | Musikfonds, Berlin
Project support for presentation of Alluvium. View full details here.
1.–8. December, 2019 Residency | Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
Residency at Atelierhaus Salzamt during the setup for Minute/Year at bb15 in 2020.
16. April–10. May, 2017 Residency | Queens Collective, Marrakesh, Morocco
Research residency in Queens Collective, Marrakesh
25. May, 2016 LACMA 2016 Art + Technology Lab Award | Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Award, leading to the development and initial presentation of Signal Tide.
September 2015 Award and grant | Berliner Senat, Berlin
Support from the Berliner Senat Förderprogramme Internationaler Kulturaustausch for presentation of Increments at Museu Serralves, Porto.
20. September–1. October, 2013 Residency | Bakelit Multi Art Center, Budapest
Residency and presentation of work, supported by L1, Budapest.
September 2013 Award | Berliner Senat, Berlin
Tanzstipendium award of the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, supporting work related to the research project Drone Pattern. View full details here.

Curatorial and organisational work:

16. October, 2015 Erik DeLuca, Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Event | KK19, Berlin, Germany
4. March, 2015 Scissor #3
Group exhibition | Nachbarschaftsgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Third in a series of events presenting durational and time-based work. View full details here.
4. June, 2014 Scissor #2
Group exhibition | Nachbarschaftsgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Second in a series of events presenting durational and time-based work. View full details here.
26. February, 2014 Scissor #1
Group exhibition | Team Titanic Gallery, Berlin, Germany
First in a series of events presenting durational and time-based work. View full details here.
23. November, 2012 Ciarán Walsh, Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Group exhibition | ESDIP Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Research, work-in-progress presentations:

September 2013 Drone Pattern
Research process | Rummelsberger Bucht, Berlin, Germany
Research process. View full details here.
2011–present Ice
Research process | Berlin, Germany
Ongoing research process, since 2011, recording a series of video diptychs of the river Spree in winter. View full details here.