klara kofen
artist, opera maker, writer, researcher

Contact: Instagram / Twitter / email: klara.m.a.kofen [at] gmail [dot] com

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Current Projects + News:

Admiror, or Revolutionary Sentiments
Dead Cat Bounce 2024 UK Tour
Thoroughfare +++ work in progress

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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