Ways of Listening
Kate Alderton is a multidisciplinary artist, performer, dream guide, and facilitator who explores the boundary between dreaming and wakefulness, inner and outer landscapes. She works with sound, movement, collage and performance.
Anendophasia: How inner silence effects listening
Kate lives with a condition called ‘anendophasia’ ( lack of inner monologue), which profoundly influences her creative process, her role as a dream-tender, and her work as a deep-communication facilitator. She delves into the unspoken spaces between words and worlds, people and nature, dreams and reality, uncovering what emerges when words are absent.
The Radical Act of Dreaming
Through a practice called ‘dream activism,’ Kate investigates the concept of ‘seeding’ dreams within the dreaming realm, then integrates the symbols, sounds, images, and movements back into waking life through her creative practice and community dream collaborations.
Her practice explores the power of collective dreaming and how the ‘more-than-human world’ communicates through our bodies, dreams, and consciousness. She is dedicated to rekindling our sensitivity to these voices and finding ways to amplify their presence.
Training
Kate trained in theatre studies at LAMDA, as a dream tender with Stephen Aizenstat at Pacifica Graduate Institute, The Centre for Social Dreaming and Damanhur Eco Community. She has attended traings in Processwork with Arnold and Amy Mindell and is currently in year 2 of a 3 year research immersion ‘Ecologies of The Imagination’ with Anima Mundi School.
Performance and exhibitions
Her work has been exhibited, published and performed at WIA Gallery 2025, IAFDS Art Exhibition 2023/2025 Patastrpophe Surrealist magazine 2022-2025 , Surrealpool publication 2024, Saatchi Gallery, SXSW. Dreamwork/ Art collaborations include Dream Palace, The Centre for Climate Psychology, The Cockpit Theatre, IMAGINE! Festival, Anima Mundi School, Chroma Space, Damanhur Community, The Mycelium.
Images: Quadraphonic Sound Wave, Listen, Awake In The Park
By Kate Alderton. All rights reserved
