Katherine Nolan
Lecturer
Email: Katherine.Nolan@tudublin.ie
Katherine Nolan is an artist, lecturer and researcher specialising in gender and new media. With a particular focus on tensions between the experiential and the spectacular body, her research investigates gender, identity and desire in the context of digital cultures. Her artistic practice is primarily performance and lens-based media, and she has exhibited internationally in Europe, America and Asia. She regularly curates with MART Gallery and Studios and Livestock Performance Art Platform. Recent exhibitions include Fluid Flesh (2021) and The Mistress of the Mantle (2017) solo exhibitions at MART Dublin and group shows at LACE Los Angeles, Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm and Future Histories at Kilmainham Gaol. Recent research papers include; Fear of missing out: performance art through the lens of participatory culture (2021) in the International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media; Life on Pause: Entanglements of the Maternal and The Mortal in a Global Pandemic in Performance in a Pandemic published by Routledge (2021); and Reading Queer Irish Performance across Live and Digital Practices in Interfaces Journal (2021); She is a member of the Intersections: Feminism, Technology & Digital Humanities Network, and the Centre for Socially Engaged Practice-Based Research, TU Dublin. She Lectures in Creative Digital Media in Technological University Dublin.
Research/Practice Interests: performance, art, digital media, lens-based media, practice-based research, feminism, gender, critical theory