Kate James

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Kate James is a second year graduate student in the Visual Arts Program.  She is a Boston native, and studied dance/kinesthesia and architectural history at Brown University.  She then came to MIT to pursue a Master of Architecture degree before transferring into the Visual Arts program.

With a dance/choreography and architecture background, Kate’s work invariably focuses on interests of the body, it’s habits, movements, and dynamic sectional relationship to it’s surrounding structures. She hopes to question and complicate the interfaces between the corporeal and the environmental — those objects, surfaces, and systems that mediate the body’s experience within an environment and fuel the habitual kinesthesia of everyday life.  The site of these investigations is often the home, where these interfaces collect and repeat in their most engrained and personal form.

These interests have thus far manifested in the design of clothing, textiles, accessories, furniture, and spaces