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"...how technology will influence dance in the future"
"In The Mutables, Mustatea presents an active internal battle between the voice and body of an artist. Her exploration of technology emphasizes its power to, in a matter of seconds, either bolster or eradicate our humanity."
The Dance Enthusiast review of The Mutables 11.2026 -
"a hypnotic operatic experience"
"The Mutables challenges us to rethink our understanding of communication and expression in a world that often seeks to silence the nuanced complexities of womanhood and, more generally, personhood.”
Eye on Dance review of The Mutables
10.2026 -
<em>The Mutables</em>: "a luminous exploration of how speech and gesture shape consciousness"
“It was as though the stage had become a neural network of sound and body, each dancer a firing synapse of memory and myth.”
Opening Night Reviews of The Mutables
10.2026 -
<em>The Mutables</em> premiere at HERE Arts Center, New York
The Mutables weaves cutting edge technology for speech production with mythographies of the feminine monstrous to expand and reorient our intuitions for what can be put into words.
10.08 - 10.12.2025 -
BodyMouth at EdgeCut Arts, New York
Part of a double bill with Ka Baird. ielele performance situated at the edge of experimental opera and dance, inspired by female forest creatures in Balkan folklore whose voices were said to lead men astray
05.22 - 05.24.2025 -
<em>Alien Song</em> performance at ISSUE Project Room, New York
Featuring Alyssa Forte and Felix Bryan.
04.26.2025 -
BodyMouth featured in <em>Harper's Magazine</em>
"New World Symphonies: Listening for the Future of Music" by Matthew Sherrill
Harper's Magazine
03.02.2025 -
Guest Interview on Theatre Tech Talks: AI, Science, and Biomedia in Theatre
Podcast hosted by Tjaša Ferme. Produced by HowlRound Theatre Commons: "BodyMouth: A New Instrument Created By A Playwright" 02.2025
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BodyMouth featured on CBS News
CBS News Sunday Morning with David Pogue and Jane Pauley: "New Sounds" feature on groundbreaking acoustic and electronic instruments
02.02.2025 -
Panelist at ZKM Center: <em>After Memory Symposium</em>
Symposium at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, DE: “Speculative Networks—Reimagining Connections”
Panelists: Kat Mustatea, Özge Çelikaslan, Lori Emerson, and Maryam Monalisa Gharavi. Moderated by Nathalia Lavigne
10.26.2024 -
<em>Voidopolis</em> named finalist for The Lumen Prize
3D / Interactive Category 2023
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<em>Voidopolis</em> at Fabrica, Italy
xCoAx: The 12th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X
Fabrica, Treviso (IT). Curated by Miguel Carvalhais, Mario Verdicchio, Luísa Ribas, André Rangel
07.2024 -
<em>The Bald Altuus</em> awarded at CPH:DOX, Copenhagen
Winner of the New Images-Forum des Images Award. Part of CPH:LAB, Copenhagen, DK
With Peter Burr 03.2024
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<em>Voidopolis</em> at Brooklyn Public Library
Part of the yearly Night in the Library Festival
03.16.2024 -
BodyMouth at Ferst Center for the Arts
Alien Voices performed as part of the Guthman Prize for New Musical Instruments Finalist Showcase, Georgia Tech University
03.09.2024 -
<em>Voidopolis</em> essay by Danielle Ezzo
Voidopolis moves photographic discourse "toward a place of speculation and the possibilities embedded in new forms."
FOTODEMIC: "Amnesia in the Land of Hypermemory" by Danielle Ezzo 01.05.2024 -
<em>Voidopolis</em> worldwide release by The MIT Press
Launch party at ICP—International Center of Photography 09.2023
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<em>Voidopolis</em> at Ars Electronica
"A New Digital Deal" Ars Electronica Festival, Linz. Voidopolis premieres as a prototype AR book
08.09 - 12.09.2021 -
<em>Voidopolis</em> wins Arts & Letters 'Unclassifiable' Prize for Literature
The 'Unclassifiable' Prize honors groundbreaking works that blur, bend, blend, erase, or obliterate genre boundaries and conventional literary labels. Arts & Letters Magazine, 2020