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I love to hear from you. Do you want to book me for a performance? Can you imagine a collaboration? Would you like me to compose music for your film or live performance? Would you like to invite me to teach a workshop? Would you like to hire me for on-set sound recording? Do you want to book one of my bands? Do you want to talk about S.W.E.A.T.? Do you want to borrow costumes from Carni Closet? Something else? Write me an email at: roi AT mad-kate DOT com or use my contact form.

Biography

Mad Kate (they/them) aka Kathryn Fischer is an electronic producer, sound designer, performance artist and writer who began working the Berlin performance and club scene in 2004, expanding their unique identity-queering, genderfcking and sexpositive performative work throughout music, theatre and film. Their explorations of borders between/within bodies, aliveness, audibility, consent, proximity, and touch as political practice have brought them to theaters, communes, technomansions, prisons, dungeons, squats and galleries around the world, with projects Mad Kate, HYENAZ, Mad Kate | the Tide, Kamikaze Queens, PEACHES, Bonaparte, and many other collaborations.

Mad Kate is one half of the producer-performer duo HYENAZ with Adrienne Teicher, who have toured immersive techno experiential shows based in consent and touch. HYENAZ are deeply committed to the connection between movement, sound design and audio visual work. They are currently working on their project Foreign Bodies, a slow movement series of audio-visual works on bodies in motion and bodies in relation. Their latest work Audibility is towards a new cosmology of listening.

Mad Kate is currently and slowly working on an extended solo research project called S.W.E.A.T. sex.work.extraction.arts.theatrics, which has emerged as a series of audio and performative works and as a podcast that explores the concept of performance and performativity of the sexual/ized body in labour of survival and labour of a/Art. S.W.E.A.T. grew out of personal experiences in and around sex work and art work practice in which the body is both explicitly and implicitly a sexualized site of performance. Many of Mad Kate’s solo works are around the interplay between work, sex, art and the performance of those.

Further explorations of the politics of work have found expression in the new work of their postpunkperformance project Mad Kate | the Tide, a collaboration with Jacopo Bertacco aka TideOfSound and Sara Neidorf. Their 2025 album “Stage and Bedroom” examines the public and domestic sites in which we rehearse and perform power.

As co-singer with punk cabaret band Kamikaze Queens, Mad Kate toured the European and US punkrock circuit with unforgettable live shows. As a dancer-performance artist, they have appeared on international stages with PEACHES (as co-creator of the contemporary dance collective CLUSTERFUCK) and since 2007, they have brought their genderbending glitter punk stage energy to the fluffy punk circus Bonaparte (and they will be touring on the 20th anniversary Bonaparte tour in October 2026). Mad Kate has collaborated and performed with punxnkweenz, BLCK CRCKR, Planningtorock, Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black (Kembra Pfahler), DJ Hell, Taylor Mac, and countless other legends and legends in the making.

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