HONEY WINDOW
Commissioned by Columbia University as an experimental art installation, the Honey Window provides the viewer with a formal measure of time and temperature as the honey crystallises and melts within its perfectly sealed two pieces of glass. Reflecting the impermanent nature of our existence, the honey window will be constantly changing and evolving.
The frame is made by James Trundle in wood from a fallen elm tree in a London Park, whilst the honey is sourced from an ethical supplier in Morvan.
Filming and editing by Charlotte Force.
Installed by Charlotte Force, Naomi Berhane, and Kate Daudy. Produced by Columbia Global Centers | Paris, the Institute for Ideas and Imagination, Marie Doezema, Krista Faurie, Marie d’Origny, and Brunhilde Biebuyck.
Find out more information via the Columbia website.
Honey Window (2023)
Elm wood, glass, honey
AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?
It was a great pleasure to give an artist talk for the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Columbia University Global Centre in Paris. The talk took place in June 2023 and revolved around using art for activism, specifically the artwork “Am I my Brother’s Keeper?”
The piece is composed of a UNHCR tent, embroidered with the words of refugees to share their message with people around the world.
“Am I my Brother’s Keeper?” has since been exhibited at venues including St Paul’s Cathedral, London, Manchester Art Gallery, BIAS Palermo, and is currently touring cities in Spain, where it has been put on the national curriculum.
light years, week days
The chimes reference Roman philosopher Pliny’s observation that the constant rotation and movement of the air, the earth and the planets in different directions emits a “sweet harmonious music”. Each chime is tuned individually according to a piece of music created by a student at the University. The wind flowing through the tunnel activates the chimes, producing an ever-evolving musical composition.
NUS Arts Festival from March 2023.
WONDERCHAOS
A selection of Kate’s films made in collaboration with Nobel prize-winning physicist Kostya Novoselov are now available to view on YouTube. ALTERNATIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATT (2021) and THE MAKING OF THE FILM - ALTERNATIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATT (2021) are two short films conceived by internationally acclaimed artist Kate Daudy and artist and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Kostya Novoselov. Both films were produced following the exhibition WONDERCHAOS (8 Sep - 6 Oct 2021) at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.
They are part of the artists’ ongoing art and science collaboration, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED (2018 - ongoing), which explores the many facets of chaos and the inevitability of order resulting from it. The behaviour of some systems within science cannot be predicted. Random Number Theory tries to produce these random - or 'chaotic' - arrangements in order to understand them better. ALTERNATIVE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR: THE SHEEP OF MR. CHARLES PLATT (2021) shows such a system.
For this project, Daudy transformed a flock of sheep into a Random Number Generator by painting an individual number on each animal's back. The flock subsequently generated random number sequences when moving. The film, based on drone footage, shows constantly changing number combinations. Observing the animals as they roam through the landscape allows us to recognise that everything is connected and grasp how at times, from the intersection of different chaotic systems, stability is created.
THE FIFTH ORDER OF CHAOS is a video work produced by internationally acclaimed visual artist Kate Daudy and Nobel prize winning physicist and artist, Kostya Novoselov with The Stain Studio. The work was created for the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Moscow and first exhibited at the Central Exhibition Hall at Manège, Red Square. Daudy and Novoselov have been working together for over five years, exploring the many facets of chaos and the inevitability of order resulting from it in their ongoing art and science collaboration, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.
The film THE FIFTH ORDER OF CHAOS (2021) makes us believe we see an organised structure, while in fact we are witnessing the formation of quasicrystals - a process of chaos and transformation, moving between different levels of disorder. Like crystals, quasicrystals contain an ordered structure, but the patterns are subtle and do not repeat at strictly regular intervals. Rather, quasicrystals appear to be formed from two different structures assembled in a non-repeating arrangement, the three-dimensional equivalent of a tile floor made from two shapes of tile, having an orientational order, but no repetition. Only two types of tiles are required so that an infinite ornament can be created. The ornament is generated by the same laws, but will never be repeated. THE FIFTH ORDER OF CHAOS (2021) shows the creation of such an ornament.
BLUE TALKS
Join visual artist Kate Daudy and physicist and Nobel prize winning physicist Professor Konstantin Novoselov in a mesmerizing Blue Talk with Diego del Alcázar, President at IE University. In this captivating dialogue, they blur the lines between art and science, delving into profound questions about life's essence. Discover the "Everything is Connected" project, a global initiative that encourages self-reflection and embraces our interconnected world.
This conversation transcends borders, inspiring you to contemplate life's intricacies and our shared global bond. Engage with Kate and Kostya as they bridge tradition and the future, leaving you enlightened and inspired.
Blue Talks is an initiative by IE University and LinkedIn, designed to spark conversations between leading players in the business world.
Each episode features inspiring thought leaders who bring their insights and expertise to the table, sparking conversations on leadership, ethics and technology.
Other guests in the series include former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the first elected female head of state in Africa, and Ana Botín, Executive Chair at Banco Santander.
the hay festival, segovia
A large scale manifestation of Kate Daudy and Sir Kostya Novoselov’s hugely successful worldwide art + science project 'Everything is connected', was presented at The Hay Festival 2022, in Segovia. The event was a participatory performance in which a flock of sheep illustrated Einstein’s Unification Theory.
A herd of 400 Castilian sheep belonging to local shepherd Mr. Rafael Montes were walked by Daudy and Novoselov to the area beneath the historic Roman aquaduct in Segovia. The sheep, each inscribed with SÍ or NO (YES or NO), formed random groups and arrangements, proving perfectly to us the possibility of individuals living peacefully together, however disparate their point of view.
Kate and Kostya opened the festival, and also provided the closing talk.
The paint used to write the words on the sheep's coat is ecological and completely harmless to the animal.
Punctum: future nostalgia
Punctum (Future Nostalgia) is Kate Daudy’s response to her one-month residency in Meteora, Greece. Here Daudy explores the poetics of objects. Much like the technological motherboard, Punctum constructs an assemblage of different components that, when combined, communicate a sense of the artist’s life. While exploring Meteora, Daudy has created and gathered objects that symbolise her family, travels, home, work. These objects embody the joys of the artist’s life; they are not essential but speak to her spirit and remind the artist of the sweetness of life.
Displaying these objects on a series of shelves, the artist explains “this is my sarcophagus, this is my tomb […] I have made objects about all the things I like about being alive [and] when I am dead, I will take these memories with me.” Some of the objects reflect this intent to not only record the life of the artist but to equip her with the materials to journey into the afterlife. One shelf even displays the coins in which to pay the man who will charter the boat on the river to the afterlife. To create Future Nostalgia, to anticipate a future longing for the past in the present moment, disturbs our construction of linearly progressive time. Here, time feels more cyclical and flowing, or perhaps more elastic, capable of stretching forward, moving backwards, or staying in the present.
4 September - 4 November 2022
National Geological History Museum, Meteora, Greece
Interviews can be found here
THE EVOLUTION PROJECT
The Evolution Project is a collaboration between internationally acclaimed visual artist Kate Daudy, digital artist James Viggers and Kostya Novoselov (artist and Nobel prize winning physicist).
What are the true technical and artistic possibilities of NFTs? More specifically, what artistic possibilities can only be realised using NFTs?
The EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED project has at its heart a humanitarian goal, and this new forest of NFTs too offers shelter in the metaverse, not just directly through its warm message of hope and connection but literally through material donations to charity. We are proud that the first iteration of our NFT project will support The Malala Fund.
Read an interview with Kate discussing the project here.
July - September 2022
5-7 Dover Street, W1S 4LD, London
MI BLANCOR ALMIDONADO: AUTORRETRATO CON PIEDRAS, SUDARIO Y UNA SEMILLA, 'My starched whiteness' exhibition at the CajaGranada Cultural Center, Granada.
The exhibition is a tribute to Federico García Lorca, whose figure has been fundamental in the artist's imagination.
Among the pieces in the exhibition, thirty-eight photographs of stones stand out that represent the thirty-eight years lived by the poet Federico García Lorca (1898 – 1936). Kate Daudy thus reveals her love for Lorca's work in an act of joy for his existence and, at the same time, pain for the circumstances of his loss.
Daudy has created a space in this exhibition to question how we choose to face the many challenges and obstacles that are presented to us. Captured in hyper-realistic detail, the stone portraits are a constellation of sentinels that help the visitor explore and re-evaluate their experience in the context of the natural world. They remember the essential qualities that the human being has within: the capacity to love and forgive, generosity, courage, purity of intentions, dignity, kindness.
The exhibition has been presented by the managing director of the CajaGranada Foundation, Fernando Bueno and the artist Kate Daudy herself .
During the presentation event, Fernando Bueno wanted to thank Kate for the “enormous work done in the production of this exhibition that overflows with symbolism and hope.” “For the CajaGranada Foundation it is a real honor to open this exhibition to all citizens in our facilities, an exhibition full of sensitivity,” he added.
For her part, Kate Daudy wanted to highlight the strong imprint that “the figure of that universal Granada native who is Federico García Lorca” has on her work. “Federico's work and personality inspire me and give me confidence, his profound simplicity when creating makes me feel very identified and gives me freedom,” she explained.
“She holds up a mirror to the world, raising questions that bring introspection and remind us of our common core, that we are all connected.”
AT THE VIOLET HOUR
In March - May 2022, Kate Daudy and Kostya Novoselov unveiled At The Violet Hour, a multi-part exhibition at The American International Unvisersity, Kuwait.
Together the pair presented ‘At the Violet Hour’, a collection of installations featuring the exhibits, ‘All You Had to Do Was Stay’, ‘The Evolution Project’, and ‘Anything Can Happen’.
Inspired by celestial maps maps of the heavens, Anything Can Happen looked at humanity’s ever-developing understanding of the size, shape and visual texture of the cosmos, with its teeming swarms of galaxies.
Daudy’s work focused on questions of home and identity, exploring mankind’s desire to position itself materially and spiritually in the grand scheme of nature and the wider universe.
With ecological concerns in mind, all works were transformed into digital files and then made onsite in Kuwait, with the carbon footprint offset by the artist.
iT WASN’T THAT AT ALL, SAATCHI GALLERY LONDON
In 2020 Daudy was invited to be artist in residence at Saatchi Gallery, responding to their blockbuster exhibition TUTANKHAMUN: TREASURES OF THE GOLDEN PHARAOH. Daudy worked alongside egyptologists at The Griffith Insitute, University of Oxford, to create a new body of work exploring themes including death, rebirth, faith and tradition.
As part of this exhibition, in collaboration with IMG and TFL, Daudy was commissioned to create a map indicating places in London inspired by ancient Egypt. Unfortunately the printing of the map was postponed and then cancelled due too the Covid-19 pandemic.
The map print out was given to the British Museum to distribute in their Egyptology department. The original map is on its way to the Griffith Institute, Oxford University.
"Walk It Back" is a global carbon removal campaign founded by Craig Cohon and developed with Global Citizen . As a Global Citizen European Board Member, as part of the launch, Craig walked 4,000 km through 9 European countries, travelling 25 km per day with a total of 154 “daily” guest walkers intended to take thousands of tonnes of carbon out of the atmosphere which will also include his lifetime carbon footprint from 1963. This awareness and fundraising effort will focus on supporting global and local city projects that accelerate carbon removal efforts in energy, transport, industry, agriculture, oceans and buildings.
Kate Daudy partnered with Craig to create a carbon zero mobile art unit and exhibition. Kate also created a series of magical 3D boxes that unpack from the floor of the social club to show miniature, artistic and playful renderings of carbon removal techniques.
