Lecture Transmission Performance
Kate Donovan
Thresholding
"Thresholding", by Kate Donovan, is a lecture-transmission unfolding in the liminal moments between day and night. It works with radio as a medium of betweens, attending to amphibiousness: the capacity to move between worlds of difference. The performance brings listening, ecological thought and transmission into relation, staying with the threshold as a place of movement and contact rather than a simple dividing line.
The work approaches radio as a form that can hold multiple worlds together without collapsing their difference. It asks what kinds of attention may emerge in transitions: between day and night, land and water, human and more-than-human, research and artistic practice. Its lecture-transmission format offers a setting for thinking through these relations by listening.
Kate Donovan is an artist-researcher whose practice and scholarship engage ecological thinking, listening, radio and the more-than-human. She completed her PhD, Radio as Relation: Listening across Worlds of Artistic Research, Technologies and the More-than-human, in 2025, and currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship with 4A_Lab in Berlin.
