Kitty McKay Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom

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An artist, researcher and social practitioner from Liverpool, currently living and working in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, I work with groups and other collaborators to produce live and interactive community workshops concerned with mapping, walking, queerness and archiving. I work across media in academic and creative writing, video, DJing, collaging, radio production and performance.

I am a social practitioner whose ways of working are determined with the people I work with - be that community groups, other artists, organisations or collaborators. I co-run a group walking forum called Incursions, which meets regularly in the city of Newcastle, to bring people together to explore space and place, our collective relationships to geographies and our disruptive roles within capitalist contexts. Incursions is a social and curatorial practice, with roots (and routes) in archiving, collaging, audio visual practice, performance and writing. We have run workshops, been awarded commissions and exhibited our works across the UK, with South London Gallery, ICA, Firstsite Gallery, The National Trust, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, The NewBridge Project, amongst many more.

I am a graduate of Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently 'graduated' from the alternative educational programme, School of the Damned. I have been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 and am a current studio holder at The NewBridge Project.