artist, opera maker, writer, researcher
Contact: Instagram / Twitter / email: klara.m.a.kofen [at] gmail [dot] com
[about]
Dead Cat Bounce 2024 UK Tour
Thoroughfare +++ work in progress
(Cozey Me Me series)
⁑ ‘Big Throw’, collective performance, Matt’s Gallery, London
⁑ Performance, ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
⁑ Performance, ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
⁑ ‘Dead Cat Bounce - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (2024 UK tour), No Bounds Festival, Soft Ground Arts Catalyst
⁑ Performance Lecture, ‘Thoroughfare’, Performing Arts Forum, France
⁑ Artist Talk, Aria - World’s End Hackathon, Ljubliana
⁑ ‘DEAD CAT BOUNCE - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (2024 UK tour), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
⁑ Premiere, ‘abstracts, with love’, Waste Paper Opera, commission by the Future Places Centre at Lancaster University, an EPSRC-funded Digital Economy Centre, and the Culture and Place strand at Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts
⁑ Opera (Direction / Design / Light), Titus l’Empereur, Händelfestspiele Halle, with Opera Settecento
⁑ ‘DEAD CAT BOUNCE - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (2024 UK tour), Eastside Projects, Birmingham
⁑ Performance, ‘Jeremiah’ from Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Café Oto, Resonance FM
⁑ Performance, ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ at Medialab Matadero for OpenLAB#3 Mentes sintéticas
⁑ Performance, ‘Free to Choose’ at Medialab Matadero for OpenLAB#3 Mentes sintéticas
⁑ Performance with Sally O’Reilly at the launch of Bleet Magazine
⁑ Book launch, ‘Catastrophe Time!’ at the Centre for Capitalism Studies, UCL
⁑ Artist Talk, Wimbledon College of Arts
⁑ Performance, ‘Free to Choose’, Resonance FM Fundraiser, Iklectik
⁑ Research Associate for Serpentine’s Beyond Cultures of Ownership R&D Platform
⁑ Performance with the Waste Paper Opera Chorus at Lewisham Arthouse for Moina Moin’s exhibition Mittens Got Talent
⁑ Artist Talk with Waste Paper Opera at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
⁑ Performance of ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ with Cameron Graham at BEK Bergen, ‘The Only Lasting Truth is Change’ Symposium
⁑ Artist Talk at Reading University
⁑ R&D for ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’, at Medialab Matadero, collaboration with Bahar Noorizadeh
⁑ Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall with Bookartbookshop and Atlas Press
⁑ Research Trip to Lancaster with Waste Paper Opera with Lancaster University Future Places Centre
⁑ Tutor, Goldsmiths University of London MFA Fine Art
⁑ Artist Residency at London Performance Studios
⁑ Research Fellowship at 0x Salon, Berlin
⁑ Artist Residency with Ryan Latimer, Britten Pears Arts / Snape Maltings
⁑ Talk, Book launch of Catastrophe Time! at Goldsmiths University of London
⁑ FREE TO CHOOSE, financial sci-fi opera for the metaverse, collaboration between Bahar Noorizadeh, Waste Paper Opera, Rudá Babau / Singapore Art Museum for Open System 1_ Open Worlds
⁑ ‘Ethereal Data’ in Gary Zhexi Zhang’s Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor/MIT Press)
⁑ Research, UNDONE Theater, The Butterfly Project
⁑ Workshop, Create the World, Central Saint Martins
⁑ Workshop series, Horizontal Practices, London Performance Studios
⁑ Script for Eat.Drain.Arson, on-chain game, developed by Trust, in collaboration with 0x Park
⁑ Installation, Dead Cat Bounce, Waste Paper Opera, OpenLab #1, Medialab Matadero
⁑ Workshop, Grounding Practice, Somerset House
⁑ Tutor, MA Arts & Politics, Goldsmiths University of London
⁑ Performance, Good Soup, Ensemble Molière, National Centre for Early Music
⁑ Performance, Black Hole of Money, 0x Salon, CLICK @ Kulturvaerftet, Denmark
⁑ R&D residency for Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at London Performance Studios
⁑ R&D residency for Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Wysing Arts Centre
⁑ Artist residency with Ensemble Molière, Hawkwood
⁑ Translation, Wagner’s The Ring Cycle, Bayreuther Festspiele
⁑ Translation, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Oper Zürich
⁑ To Give and Not Count The Cost, Eeenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam
⁑ Researcher/consultant, Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods, Other Internet
⁑ Performance, The Limits of the Trade and Variable Winds,
Proxyerotics, Launch Party
⁑ Performance, The Cozey Me - Me, Hederafelix, Mycelia IV, Launch
⁑ Film selection, BOMB Factory Artist’s Film Festival,
We Have No Reason To Believe At This Point In Time, with Chihiro Ono
⁑ Performer, Voice Workshop with Sally O’Reilly, Royal College of Art
2020
⁑ Curation, Purgatory Shelf Object Theatre Variety Show, Waste Paper Opera + Sally O’Reilly
⁑ Writing with Sally O’Reilly, two gods lament their charges, The Open Arms
⁑ Publication + Audio Play, The Pomegranate, Hederafelix, Mycelia III
⁑ Syrup Tracing; or, on the significance of rising and/or falling, Waste Paper Opera, Ideas of Noise Festival, Midlands Tour
2019
⁑ Talk, Reconsidering the Total Work of Art, Our Haus Festival,
Camberwell College of Arts
⁑ Workshop, Reconsidering the Total Work of Art, Our Haus Festival,
Central Saint Martins
⁑ Performance/workshop series, The Tales of Hoffman, Beijing Music Festival/Beijing Philharmonic Choir
⁑ Artist Residency, Waste Paper Opera, Splendour, Amsterdam
⁑ Curation, London Experimental Variety Show, Waste Paper Opera, The Shaw Theatre
⁑Performance, Abfalleimer II, Excellent Vocal Takes, SET Dalston
⁑Translation + Research, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Bayreuther Festspiele
⁑Performance, ‘i’ the opera, Waste Paper Opera, Glasgow International/ Wandsworth Arts Fringe
⁑Talk, Animism;Anxiety:AI, Sing-A-Lang Symposium,
Institute of Modern Languages Research, London
⁑Performance, Vorephilia, Waste Paper Opera, commissioned by the Medical Research Council/30Bird, UNFRAMED 2, Cambridge Junction
⁑Interdisciplinary performance series, Whole Punch, Waste Paper Opera, Rosemary Branch Theatre
⁑Performance, Dido and Aeneas, New Generation Festival, The Zedel
⁑Performance, A Risk of Lobsters, opera created in collaboration with Lucy Armstrong, Milton Court Studio Theatre
Education:
MSt. Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford
MA (Hons.) History, University of Glasgow
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Current Projects + News:
Admiror, or Revolutionary SentimentsDead Cat Bounce 2024 UK Tour
Thoroughfare +++ work in progress
(Cozey Me Me series)
2024
⁑ Artist Residency, Centrale Fies, Italy⁑ ‘Big Throw’, collective performance, Matt’s Gallery, London
⁑ Performance, ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson
⁑ Performance, ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
⁑ ‘Dead Cat Bounce - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (2024 UK tour), No Bounds Festival, Soft Ground Arts Catalyst
⁑ Performance Lecture, ‘Thoroughfare’, Performing Arts Forum, France
⁑ Artist Talk, Aria - World’s End Hackathon, Ljubliana
⁑ ‘DEAD CAT BOUNCE - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (2024 UK tour), Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
⁑ Premiere, ‘abstracts, with love’, Waste Paper Opera, commission by the Future Places Centre at Lancaster University, an EPSRC-funded Digital Economy Centre, and the Culture and Place strand at Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts
⁑ Opera (Direction / Design / Light), Titus l’Empereur, Händelfestspiele Halle, with Opera Settecento
⁑ ‘DEAD CAT BOUNCE - an oratorio about finance and catastrophe’ (2024 UK tour), Eastside Projects, Birmingham
⁑ Performance, ‘Jeremiah’ from Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Café Oto, Resonance FM
⁑ Performance, ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ at Medialab Matadero for OpenLAB#3 Mentes sintéticas
⁑ Performance, ‘Free to Choose’ at Medialab Matadero for OpenLAB#3 Mentes sintéticas
⁑ Performance with Sally O’Reilly at the launch of Bleet Magazine
⁑ Book launch, ‘Catastrophe Time!’ at the Centre for Capitalism Studies, UCL
⁑ Artist Talk, Wimbledon College of Arts
⁑ Performance, ‘Free to Choose’, Resonance FM Fundraiser, Iklectik
2023
⁑ Research Associate for Serpentine’s Beyond Cultures of Ownership R&D Platform
⁑ Performance with the Waste Paper Opera Chorus at Lewisham Arthouse for Moina Moin’s exhibition Mittens Got Talent
⁑ Artist Talk with Waste Paper Opera at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
⁑ Performance of ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’ with Cameron Graham at BEK Bergen, ‘The Only Lasting Truth is Change’ Symposium
⁑ Artist Talk at Reading University
⁑ R&D for ‘Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments’, at Medialab Matadero, collaboration with Bahar Noorizadeh
⁑ Small Publishers Fair at Conway Hall with Bookartbookshop and Atlas Press
⁑ Research Trip to Lancaster with Waste Paper Opera with Lancaster University Future Places Centre
⁑ Tutor, Goldsmiths University of London MFA Fine Art
⁑ Artist Residency at London Performance Studios
⁑ Research Fellowship at 0x Salon, Berlin
⁑ Artist Residency with Ryan Latimer, Britten Pears Arts / Snape Maltings
⁑ Talk, Book launch of Catastrophe Time! at Goldsmiths University of London
⁑ FREE TO CHOOSE, financial sci-fi opera for the metaverse, collaboration between Bahar Noorizadeh, Waste Paper Opera, Rudá Babau / Singapore Art Museum for Open System 1_ Open Worlds
⁑ ‘Ethereal Data’ in Gary Zhexi Zhang’s Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor/MIT Press)
⁑ Research, UNDONE Theater, The Butterfly Project
⁑ Workshop, Create the World, Central Saint Martins
⁑ Workshop series, Horizontal Practices, London Performance Studios
⁑ Script for Eat.Drain.Arson, on-chain game, developed by Trust, in collaboration with 0x Park
2022
⁑ Oratorio premiere, Dead Cat Bounce, Waste Paper Opera, Somerset House⁑ Installation, Dead Cat Bounce, Waste Paper Opera, OpenLab #1, Medialab Matadero
⁑ Workshop, Grounding Practice, Somerset House
⁑ Tutor, MA Arts & Politics, Goldsmiths University of London
⁑ Performance, Good Soup, Ensemble Molière, National Centre for Early Music
⁑ Performance, Black Hole of Money, 0x Salon, CLICK @ Kulturvaerftet, Denmark
⁑ R&D residency for Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at London Performance Studios
⁑ R&D residency for Dead Cat Bounce with Waste Paper Opera at Wysing Arts Centre
⁑ Artist residency with Ensemble Molière, Hawkwood
⁑ Translation, Wagner’s The Ring Cycle, Bayreuther Festspiele
⁑ Translation, Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmelites, Oper Zürich
2021
⁑ Seriousness on a bed of Feathers - The Foraging Mindset of Helen Frik, Christian Ouwens Gallery, Amsterdam⁑ To Give and Not Count The Cost, Eeenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam
⁑ Researcher/consultant, Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods, Other Internet
⁑ Performance, The Limits of the Trade and Variable Winds,
Proxyerotics, Launch Party
⁑ Performance, The Cozey Me - Me, Hederafelix, Mycelia IV, Launch
⁑ Film selection, BOMB Factory Artist’s Film Festival,
We Have No Reason To Believe At This Point In Time, with Chihiro Ono
⁑ Performer, Voice Workshop with Sally O’Reilly, Royal College of Art
2020
⁑ Curation, Purgatory Shelf Object Theatre Variety Show, Waste Paper Opera + Sally O’Reilly ⁑ Writing with Sally O’Reilly, two gods lament their charges, The Open Arms
⁑ Publication + Audio Play, The Pomegranate, Hederafelix, Mycelia III
⁑ Syrup Tracing; or, on the significance of rising and/or falling, Waste Paper Opera, Ideas of Noise Festival, Midlands Tour
2019
⁑ Talk, Reconsidering the Total Work of Art, Our Haus Festival, Camberwell College of Arts
⁑ Workshop, Reconsidering the Total Work of Art, Our Haus Festival,
Central Saint Martins
⁑ Performance/workshop series, The Tales of Hoffman, Beijing Music Festival/Beijing Philharmonic Choir
⁑ Artist Residency, Waste Paper Opera, Splendour, Amsterdam
⁑ Curation, London Experimental Variety Show, Waste Paper Opera, The Shaw Theatre
⁑Performance, Abfalleimer II, Excellent Vocal Takes, SET Dalston
⁑Translation + Research, Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Bayreuther Festspiele
2018
⁑ Film collaboration with Diann Bauer, Victory over the Sun, Writers & Makers: Women & Technology in New Music, Defragmentation in Darmstadt 2018, Darmstadt Summer School for New Music⁑Performance, ‘i’ the opera, Waste Paper Opera, Glasgow International/ Wandsworth Arts Fringe
⁑Talk, Animism;Anxiety:AI, Sing-A-Lang Symposium,
Institute of Modern Languages Research, London
⁑Performance, Vorephilia, Waste Paper Opera, commissioned by the Medical Research Council/30Bird, UNFRAMED 2, Cambridge Junction
⁑Interdisciplinary performance series, Whole Punch, Waste Paper Opera, Rosemary Branch Theatre
⁑Performance, Dido and Aeneas, New Generation Festival, The Zedel
⁑Performance, A Risk of Lobsters, opera created in collaboration with Lucy Armstrong, Milton Court Studio Theatre
Education:
MSt. Enlightenment Studies, University of Oxford
MA (Hons.) History, University of Glasgow