Britney Love (2000) is a result of Kate Murphy’s interaction and friendship with an eleven year old girl whom she met while living in Glasgow, Scotland. The subject, Brittaney Love, and Murphy shared a fascination with pop culture and the latest pop star, who happened to share...
Seven years later in 2007, Murphy revisited the subject to make a follow-up of the piece, Britney Love (2007), in a direct reference to Michael Apted’s influential documentary project, the 7 up series. Now at 18 years of age Brittaney Love still aspires...
Kate Murphy's Count me in continues her fascination with the accidental and the unaware performer. Murphy is interested in the crossover between performance and the everyday as a dance. In this single channel video installation, Murphy's fixed camera is set up in the wings of a theatre at a high...
Kate Murphy's self-portrait Cry me a future (Dublin), pays homage to festive periods spent alone reminiscing about the past and wondering what the future holds. Murphy's recordings of visits to psychics during her travels to Dublin, New York and Sydney, allude to our desire to search for answers of what awaits...
I've been to Paradise plays with the familiar genres of pop video and home movie. Murphy is the artist turned pop star, belting out Never Been to Me by Charlene on a beige leatherette lounge. Murphy mocks and subverts the language of aesthetics of Top of...
2 channel digital video installation Single channel stereo sound In Joe Hill we witness the private act of a man, alone, in the middle of the night, making his testimony for the song he wants played at his funeral. The solitary act of this man’s demonstration is recorded by two cameras: the...
4 channel digital video installation2 channel stereo sound
5 channel digital video installation
Composer: Basil Hogios The note was conceived when Murphy read a distant relative's suicide letter. Murphy asked composer Basil Hogios to develop a musical composition based on every word written in this letter. The result is a single-channel video installation, encompassing the quadraphonic sound of Hogios’ musical...
8 channel HD video installation with 9 channel soundCollaboration with Basil Hogios
