Katie Etheridge is an artist and performance maker whose work since 2001 investigates the interrelationships between people and places, and artists and audiences.
Since 2011, Katie has collaborated with Simon Persighetti as Etheridge & Persighetti. Currently they are exploring and celebrating the network of relationships between shoppers, food and traders at Leeds Kirkgate Market in Personal Shopper, a 3 year project commissioned by Compass Live Art. For a full project list, see below.
Katie is also the face behind Faceback, the live art game that has gone viral at Festivals and events across the UK, connecting 1000’s of people who wouldn’t normally meet.
Katie Etheridge is an experienced workshop facilitator and educator. She was an Associate Lecturer at Dartington College of Arts and later at Falmouth University, specialising in site-specific performance practice and devised theatre (2009-2015)
Etheridge & Persighetti projects:
342843 DavidBowie: Bowie, Stargazing and Performance Writing (2016)
Commissioned by LADA as part of DIY 13. Hosted by Colchester Arts Centre.
Personal Shopper (2014-2016)
Commissioned by Compass Live Art.
University of DIY (2015)
Commissioned by LADA as part of DIY 12. Hosted by Contact, Manchester.
In Polsethow shall habitations or marvellous things be seen (2015)
Commissioned by Penryn Arts Festival. We created a series of public participatory events on the site of the former Glasney College, to animate, awaken, and map the ‘invisible’ building in the 750th year of it’s founding. We were joined by special guests and experts for 3 days of performance, learning, and celebration, including an outdoor lecture, an archaeological drift, Cornish language readings from the Ordinalia (plays scribed at Glasney), walking and dancing the outlines of the building, and visions of Glasney’s missing stones seen in the field at dusk. https://glasneyvisions.wordpress.com
Atmospheric Pressure (2014)
Commissioned by LADA as part of DIY 12. Hosted by Folkestone Fringe.
Performance vs Weather. We invited artists from all disciplines to find out if it is possible to collaborate with the weather.
Porous Penryn (2014)
Investigating the textures, histories and viewpoints of the places we pass through daily, by inviting residents to ‘wear’ their town or city in the form of a temporary tattoo [Porous City 2011-2014].
The Tender Room (2014)
Site-specific work for Enys House, as part of Embedded at Penryn Arts Festival 2014.
Signs & Wonders (2012-2013)
Katie Etheridge, Simon Persighetti and Phil Smith.
Commissioned by Live at LICA and Green Close for Lancashire Witches 400. Signs & Wonders explores the transformation of objects and ideas, pointing to key locations and evidence associated with the Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612. Along city streets, in the marketplace and down country tracks we distributed strange tokens and wondrous pamphlets, asking the question: How do we invest belief and meaning in the objects and signs we make, use and come across in our daily lives? http://signsandwonderslancaster.tumblr.com/page/2
Spaces & Waves (2012)
Commissioned by b-side Festival, Weymouth A series of public performance walks / mis-guided tours by Crabman, Signpost & Bell (Smith, Persighetti, and Etheridge) created in response to the people, places and history of Chapelhay, Weymouth.
Porous City (2011)
Commissioned by Compass Live Art.
Fabulous Walks (2008)
Supported by Teignbridge Council and the Arts Council England.
Mini-festival of all-new performance walks in Teignbridge, Devon. Each of the walks was created for its particular route and inspired by the landscape, the history, the stories and eccentricities of the places that they passed through. Devised by Katie Etheridge, Anoushka Athique, Simon Persighetti, Phil Smith, Chartwell Dutiro, Nicola Singh, Fumiaki Tanaka and Rachel Sweeney.
