On Wed 13th Aug 18:30-19:30 we’ll be joined by Kat Lalor as the next artist to share in our artist talk series! Come along to learn about Kat’s practice. If you are interested, please RSVP below. These talks are open to the public so invite your friends along!

Kat Lalor is a Queer Visual Artist, generating a practice of worldbuilding through moving-image, performance and writing. They invoke their practice to interrogate constructed binary categories which limit the possibilities of Queer intelligibility.

As someone existing between the gender binary, Lalor’s practice acts as an explorative space for self-experimentation, perspective-switching, and speculative narrative building. They enact this by adapting Drag as a core methodology. Inspired by the writing of Renate Lorenz, Drag becomes a historical and political tool for symbiotic knowledge-making and knowledge-dismantling. With the performing body as the active site, Drag enables purposeful embodiments which can collapse the boundaries of truth/fiction, subjective/collective, and self/other.

Enthralled by the writings of Queer academics who seek to dismantle socio-political constructs of gender, time and space, Lalor combines the theoretical and the personal through pre-existing speculative fictions. This creates a point of recognizable access, and emphasizes the acts of subversion, destabilization and reclamation at play. Utilising absurd, camp and DIY aesthetics, normative knowledge is destabilised and binary barriers can be broken. Through this, Lalor creates a space to question the validity of all normative and political ‘truths’, including those used to deny marginalised groups bodily autonomy and self-determination. 

Combined, these tools allow for critical reflections, re-imaginings, and reclaimings of Queer experience.

Lalor graduated with an MA in Fine Art from TU Dublin in 2024. They were the recipient of the Fire Station Artists Studios Digital Media Graduate Award (2022), and an Arts Council Agility Award (2022). Their work has been exhibited in the RDS Visual Arts Award (2022), The RHA Annual (2023), The Complex Gallery (2024) and The Highlanes Gallery (2024). They are currently in residence at A4 Sounds through the WOWTE Award

Website: https://www.katlalor.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katlalor.va/?hl=en