{"id":221,"date":"2013-07-24T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/?page_id=221"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:19:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T14:19:32","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOGRAPHY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull ext ext-py-lg has-contrast-color has-base-background-color has-text-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><a href=\"mailto: madkate@alfabus.us\" data-type=\"mailto\" data-id=\"mailto: madkate@alfabus.us\">BOOK MAD KATE<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/carni-closet\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Carni Closet Costume Library<\/a> Available by Appointment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links has-icon-color has-icon-background-color is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #9DFF20; \" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-mail has-foreground-color has-primary-background-color wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\" noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:%20madkate@alfabus.us\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M19,5H5c-1.1,0-2,.9-2,2v10c0,1.1.9,2,2,2h14c1.1,0,2-.9,2-2V7c0-1.1-.9-2-2-2zm.5,12c0,.3-.2.5-.5.5H5c-.3,0-.5-.2-.5-.5V9.8l7.5,5.6,7.5-5.6V17zm0-9.1L12,13.6,4.5,7.9V7c0-.3.2-.5.5-.5h14c.3,0,.5.2.5.5v.9z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Mail<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #9DFF20; \" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-instagram has-foreground-color has-primary-background-color wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\" noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/madkate27\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12,4.622c2.403,0,2.688,0.009,3.637,0.052c0.877,0.04,1.354,0.187,1.671,0.31c0.42,0.163,0.72,0.358,1.035,0.673 c0.315,0.315,0.51,0.615,0.673,1.035c0.123,0.317,0.27,0.794,0.31,1.671c0.043,0.949,0.052,1.234,0.052,3.637 s-0.009,2.688-0.052,3.637c-0.04,0.877-0.187,1.354-0.31,1.671c-0.163,0.42-0.358,0.72-0.673,1.035 c-0.315,0.315-0.615,0.51-1.035,0.673c-0.317,0.123-0.794,0.27-1.671,0.31c-0.949,0.043-1.233,0.052-3.637,0.052 s-2.688-0.009-3.637-0.052c-0.877-0.04-1.354-0.187-1.671-0.31c-0.42-0.163-0.72-0.358-1.035-0.673 c-0.315-0.315-0.51-0.615-0.673-1.035c-0.123-0.317-0.27-0.794-0.31-1.671C4.631,14.688,4.622,14.403,4.622,12 s0.009-2.688,0.052-3.637c0.04-0.877,0.187-1.354,0.31-1.671c0.163-0.42,0.358-0.72,0.673-1.035 c0.315-0.315,0.615-0.51,1.035-0.673c0.317-0.123,0.794-0.27,1.671-0.31C9.312,4.631,9.597,4.622,12,4.622 M12,3 C9.556,3,9.249,3.01,8.289,3.054C7.331,3.098,6.677,3.25,6.105,3.472C5.513,3.702,5.011,4.01,4.511,4.511 c-0.5,0.5-0.808,1.002-1.038,1.594C3.25,6.677,3.098,7.331,3.054,8.289C3.01,9.249,3,9.556,3,12c0,2.444,0.01,2.751,0.054,3.711 c0.044,0.958,0.196,1.612,0.418,2.185c0.23,0.592,0.538,1.094,1.038,1.594c0.5,0.5,1.002,0.808,1.594,1.038 c0.572,0.222,1.227,0.375,2.185,0.418C9.249,20.99,9.556,21,12,21s2.751-0.01,3.711-0.054c0.958-0.044,1.612-0.196,2.185-0.418 c0.592-0.23,1.094-0.538,1.594-1.038c0.5-0.5,0.808-1.002,1.038-1.594c0.222-0.572,0.375-1.227,0.418-2.185 C20.99,14.751,21,14.444,21,12s-0.01-2.751-0.054-3.711c-0.044-0.958-0.196-1.612-0.418-2.185c-0.23-0.592-0.538-1.094-1.038-1.594 c-0.5-0.5-1.002-0.808-1.594-1.038c-0.572-0.222-1.227-0.375-2.185-0.418C14.751,3.01,14.444,3,12,3L12,3z M12,7.378 c-2.552,0-4.622,2.069-4.622,4.622S9.448,16.622,12,16.622s4.622-2.069,4.622-4.622S14.552,7.378,12,7.378z M12,15 c-1.657,0-3-1.343-3-3s1.343-3,3-3s3,1.343,3,3S13.657,15,12,15z M16.804,6.116c-0.596,0-1.08,0.484-1.08,1.08 s0.484,1.08,1.08,1.08c0.596,0,1.08-0.484,1.08-1.08S17.401,6.116,16.804,6.116z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Instagram<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #9DFF20; \" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-facebook has-foreground-color has-primary-background-color wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\" noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/madkateperformance\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M12 2C6.5 2 2 6.5 2 12c0 5 3.7 9.1 8.4 9.9v-7H7.9V12h2.5V9.8c0-2.5 1.5-3.9 3.8-3.9 1.1 0 2.2.2 2.2.2v2.5h-1.3c-1.2 0-1.6.8-1.6 1.6V12h2.8l-.4 2.9h-2.3v7C18.3 21.1 22 17 22 12c0-5.5-4.5-10-10-10z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n<li style=\"color: #000000; background-color: #9DFF20; \" class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-bandcamp has-foreground-color has-primary-background-color wp-block-social-link\"><a rel=\" noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/madkate.bandcamp.com\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M15.27 17.289 3 17.289 8.73 6.711 21 6.711 15.27 17.289\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">Bandcamp<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide tablet:fullwidth-cols is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column tablet:ext-pr-base is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"ext-mt-0 has-contrast-color has-text-color\">Mad Kate (they\/them) aka Kathryn Fischer is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between\/within bodies, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world, with projects <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/7kxb6qfv5NOHU5dEsvvFDY\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/7kxb6qfv5NOHU5dEsvvFDY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mad Kate<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyenaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HYENAZ<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/madkatethetide.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mad Kate | the Tide<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/1BhsznwlzPvGBXnx4rFx4r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kamikaze Queens<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachesofpeaches.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PEACHES<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bonaparte.berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonaparte<\/a>, and many other collaborations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color\">Mad Kate is one half of the producer-performer duo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyenaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HYENAZ<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adriennetiecher.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Adrienne Teicher<\/a>, who have toured immersive techno experiential shows based in consent and touch. HYENAZ are deeply committed to the connection between movement, sound design and audio visual work. They are currently working on their project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyenaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Foreign Bodies<\/a>, a slow movement series of audio-visual works on bodies in motion and bodies in relation. Their latest work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qjrhc0saKjQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Audibility<\/a> is towards a new cosmology of listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color\" id=\"block-123f4daa-81c1-4d51-9736-c3de6df8b75d\">Mad Kate is currently and slowly working on <a href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/sweat\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2650\">S.W.E.A.T.<\/a> sex.work.extraction.arts.theatrics, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/s-w-e-a-t\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">podcast<\/a> and a series of audio and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/sexworkperformanceart\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">performative works<\/a> that explore the concept of performance and performativity of the sexual\/ized body in labour of survival and labour of a\/Art. Some of these pieces have been explored through their collaboration with Jacopo Bertacco aka TideOfSound and Sara Neidorf in their postpunkperformance project <a href=\"https:\/\/madkatethetide.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mad Kate | the Tide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-contrast-color has-text-color\">As co-singer with punk cabaret band <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/1BhsznwlzPvGBXnx4rFx4r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kamikaze Queens<\/a>, Mad Kate toured the European and US punkrock circuit with unforgettable live shows. As a dancer-performance artist, they have appeared on international stages with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachesofpeaches.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PEACHES<\/a> (as co-creator of the contemporary dance collective <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/peaches-clusterfuck\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3456\">CLUSTERFUCK<\/a>) and since 2007, they have brought their genderbending glitter punk stage energy to the fluffy punk circus <a href=\"https:\/\/bonaparte.berlin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonaparte<\/a> (and they are currently performing on the QUIET and the RIOT tour). Mad Kate has collaborated and performed with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blckcrckr.com\/\">BLCK CRCKR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planningtorockofficial.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Planningtorock<\/a>, Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kembra_Pfahler\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kembra_Pfahler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kembra Pfahler<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.djhell.de\/\">DJ Hell<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/taylormac.org\/\">Taylor Mac<\/a>, and countless other legends and legends in the making. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-bottom tablet:ext-pr-base is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rotated editor:no-caption editor:no-resize tablet:ext--mr-lg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"690\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MadKate_credit_Guilles_Chipironet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MadKate_credit_Guilles_Chipironet.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.alfabus.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MadKate_credit_Guilles_Chipironet-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter is-light\" style=\"min-height:65px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group tablet:ext-mr-lg is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-2 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-layout-1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-foreground-color has-primary-background-color has-text-color has-background has-text-align-center wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/alfabus.us\/portfolio2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mad Kate Portfolio 2023<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group tablet:ext-mr-lg is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-3 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group tablet:ext-mr-lg is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-4 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group tablet:ext-mr-lg is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-5 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group tablet:ext-mr-lg is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-layout-6 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK MAD KATECarni Closet Costume Library Available by Appointment Mad Kate (they\/them) aka Kathryn Fischer is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. 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