Kat Mustatea

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Transmedia playwright whose experiments with language, live art, and the computational uncanny articulate the absurdities of being human in an increasingly algorithmic world.

Kat Mustatea's work has been presented at New York Live Arts (US), The Cube at Virginia Tech (US), Ferst Center Atlanta (US), Ars Electronica (AT), New Images Festival (FR), Fabrica (IT), and CPH:DOX (DK), among others. Her TED talk, about AI, agency, and puppetry, offers a novel link between performance and generative art-making.

Podcast

BodyMouth, a New Instrument Created by a Playwright

25 February 2025

In this conversation with Kat Mustatea we chat about her project, BodyMouth, that is also a new instrument where a dancer’s movements prompt a speech synthesizer. For an extra twist, we ponder if we could use this instrument to reverse and decode the messages behind Tai Chi or the magical gestures of Carlos Castaneda.

Essay

Gender, Disability, Transmedia, and Balkan Folklore

10 June 2024

Sophie Sagan-Gutherz shares about Kat Mustatea’s ielele, a show that uses a unique instrument called the BodyMouth to sound out histories of the ielele, a genderless creature in Balkan folklore. Sophie highlights how this show’s use of technology illuminates connections between disability and transgression of binary gender.

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