Projects

The following are selections of site-specific installations, sculptures and performances that fall roughly into four thematic areas (and often overlap with each other). These works integrate various media.

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Bio-Art

Blood Wars

2010-2011

Blood Wars is a competition between people’s white blood cells. Blood Wars is a performance and installation art-and-science project researched and developed during a residency at SymbioticA- Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts in the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. The project is funded by John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation.

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The Landscape of Lost Microbes

2017

Photo research series on missing microbes

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History of Shit

2017

An homage to Dominique Laporte’s History of Shit (1978)

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Family Bio-Crests

2017

An ongoing project about shared micro-ecologies among family members. It was created in collaboration with Dr William dePaolo, Center for Center for Microbiome Sciences and Therapeutics (CMiST), University of Washington, Seattle.

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Bank of Abject Objects

2016

DIY stool bank prototype with honey as preservative

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Kathy As Bowie

2015

Attempted exchange project with David Bowie

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Trans-Tamagotchi

2008-12 (in progress)

Working from High’s earlier project, Embracing Animal, the Trans-Tamagotchi website extends the ideas as a tamagotchi-type video game. It looks at animals developed for different disease research, and how they can be “cared for” virtually

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Animal / Interspecies

Rat Laughter

2009-2019

An ongoing project, Rat Laughter records lab rats' ultrasonic communications in order to produce "musical soundscapes." A work made to enrich the environment for laboratory rats used in research — developed at SymbioticA.

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Burial Garden

2015

Becoming A Plant: Resurrection Project

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Cat Kill: Exquisite Corpse

2012

Photographic series of presents gifted by the cats for their companion human.

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Pull of Burden Waters II

2012

Four large photographs (3’ x 4’) of underwater scenes.

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Cat Eyes: Four Eyes

2012

A mesmerizing work that places the gaze of the cats eyes on the viewer, inverting the object subject relationship.

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Mr Fox

2012

A large close up of a fox road kill (3’ x 4’)

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Pull of Burden Waters

2010

Glass sculpture, water and underwater imagery. The sound of dog barking haunts the watery scene.

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Massacre

2010

Intimate photographs of the landscape of road kill. (2’x3’)

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Skin-to-skin Dome

2009

This is a model for a future addition to all animal research facilities.

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Burial Globes: Rat Models

2009

This is a memorial to transgenic rats. Five glass globes house the cremated ashes of the transgenic rats from the project Embracing Animal. Alongside these are banners listing all transgenic rats’ model codes, disease types and the scientific team and year created.

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Rat Maze

2009

This is a model for a future addition to all animal research facilities.

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HLA-B27

2008

HLA-B27 is a photographic series of intimate images of the transgenic rats used in the two iterations of the project Embracing Animal.

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Ratz

2007

Sculpted heads of decapitated laboratory specimens line up.

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Embracing Animal

2004-06

Site-specific, mixed media installation with glass tubes, video, sound, live transgenic laboratory rats in extended rat habitat, computer terminal with website.

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Science Fiction

Big Tools Small Tools

2005

A collaborative site-specific installation about light, landscape and surveillance by Kathy High and Melissa Dyne at the Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong. Looking at various ways of seeing, the installation Big Tools /Small Tools combines analog and digital, macro and micro imaging in one space to contrast different modes of observation.

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Soft Science

2003

Two sculptures with video, Cloned Positions and Red Scare, that use the female body to explore irrational fears of cloning and contamination.

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Queer / Body

TVNotas

2001-02

A series of entries in a popular weekly magazine/celebrity gossip rag TV Notas

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Fem Studies

1997

Commissioned series of computer images for 25th anniversary issue of Feminist Studies Journal, Volume 23, Number 3, 1997. View all images by downloading the journal article.

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1984 Untitled

1984

A series of photographs taken on steamy nights in NYC with composite drawings of inner street dwellers

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Bio-Art

Blood Wars

2010-2011

Blood Wars is a competition between people’s white blood cells. Blood Wars is a performance and installation art-and-science project researched and developed during a residency at SymbioticA- Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts in the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. The project is funded by John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Foundation.

See More...

Photo research series on missing microbes

See More...

An homage to Dominique Laporte’s History of Shit (1978)

See More...

An ongoing project about shared micro-ecologies among family members. It was created in collaboration with Dr William dePaolo, Center for Center for Microbiome Sciences and Therapeutics (CMiST), University of Washington, Seattle.

See More...

DIY stool bank prototype with honey as preservative

See More...

Attempted exchange project with David Bowie

See More...

Trans-Tamagotchi

2008-12 (in progress)

Working from High’s earlier project, Embracing Animal, the Trans-Tamagotchi website extends the ideas as a tamagotchi-type video game. It looks at animals developed for different disease research, and how they can be “cared for” virtually

See More...

Animal / Interspecies

Rat Laughter

2009-2019

An ongoing project, Rat Laughter records lab rats' ultrasonic communications in order to produce "musical soundscapes." A work made to enrich the environment for laboratory rats used in research — developed at SymbioticA.

See More...

Becoming A Plant: Resurrection Project

See More...

Photographic series of presents gifted by the cats for their companion human.

See More...

Four large photographs (3’ x 4’) of underwater scenes.

See More...

A mesmerizing work that places the gaze of the cats eyes on the viewer, inverting the object subject relationship.

See More...

Mr Fox

2012

A large close up of a fox road kill (3’ x 4’)

See More...

Glass sculpture, water and underwater imagery. The sound of dog barking haunts the watery scene.

See More...

Massacre

2010

Intimate photographs of the landscape of road kill. (2’x3’)

See More...

This is a model for a future addition to all animal research facilities.

See More...

This is a memorial to transgenic rats. Five glass globes house the cremated ashes of the transgenic rats from the project Embracing Animal. Alongside these are banners listing all transgenic rats’ model codes, disease types and the scientific team and year created.

See More...

Rat Maze

2009

This is a model for a future addition to all animal research facilities.

See More...

HLA-B27

2008

HLA-B27 is a photographic series of intimate images of the transgenic rats used in the two iterations of the project Embracing Animal.

See More...

Ratz

2007

Sculpted heads of decapitated laboratory specimens line up.

See More...

Site-specific, mixed media installation with glass tubes, video, sound, live transgenic laboratory rats in extended rat habitat, computer terminal with website.

See More...

Science Fiction

A collaborative site-specific installation about light, landscape and surveillance by Kathy High and Melissa Dyne at the Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong. Looking at various ways of seeing, the installation Big Tools /Small Tools combines analog and digital, macro and micro imaging in one space to contrast different modes of observation.

See More...

Two sculptures with video, Cloned Positions and Red Scare, that use the female body to explore irrational fears of cloning and contamination.

See More...

Queer / Body

TVNotas

2001-02

A series of entries in a popular weekly magazine/celebrity gossip rag TV Notas

See More...

Commissioned series of computer images for 25th anniversary issue of Feminist Studies Journal, Volume 23, Number 3, 1997. View all images by downloading the journal article.

See More...

A series of photographs taken on steamy nights in NYC with composite drawings of inner street dwellers

See More...