Kate Ireland (Spoken Label, August 2024)

Latest up from Spoken Label, making her debut is the amazing Kate Ireland.

Kate describes herself "Hi there, I'm an artist from Scotland with a fidgety brain.

I play with the boundaries of performance, installation, text, and community practice.

My art is all about fighting the urge to optimize ourselves through language and gathering.

It is also about connecting to the primal, childlike, strange and tender parts of ourselves.

I also love working with my pals and seeing creative projects as an excuse to parallel play."

This chat is primarily about her debut album with Locksy "Self Regulating Behaviours".

This album is described as "An audio-visual performance and pamphlet that explores the

relationship between the performer's behaviour and impulses in the face of neurotypical,

hyper-capitalist standards of optimisation. Accompanied by a Sheffield-based producer

and DJ, the performance features distorted words, missed phone calls, and increasingly

bizarre wellness rules. The pamphlet includes notebook sketches, scanned images, and

continuous writing, while the performance pushes spoken word into performance art,

film, and sonic art. "

More about Kate can be found at: https://kateireland.squarespace.com/

Kate is on Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/kate.ireland__/

The album is on bandcamp at: https://kateireland.bandcamp.com/album/self-regulating-behaviours