Ania Catherine is a Los Angeles–born, Barcelona-based artist whose multidisciplinary work spans choreography, performance, installation, film, and writing. Characterized by an affinity for stillness and repetition, her creative process is one of iterative excavation and attunement. She draws from embodied research, slow cinema, and the aesthetics of boredom to illuminate knowledge stored in flesh and gesture–considering the body to be a tool for learning and unlearning. Her work has been shown at Art Basel, SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah), Dansmuseet (Stockholm), Foyer de la Danse at Opéra de Paris, Dance Camera West (Los Angeles), Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), MEET Digital Culture Center (Milan), CICA Museum (Seoul), Ars Electronica (Linz), Trauma (Berlin), Forum des images (Paris), and the International Meeting on Screendance (Valencia), among others. She holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics and works internationally performing, choreographing, speaking, directing, and teaching. In 2016 Catherine co-founded with Dejha Ti the award-winning duo practice Operator.

Operator

Ania Catherine and Dejha Ti are an artist duo whose collaborative practice, Operator, develops critical and conceptual approaches to experience. With Ti’s background as a multimedia artist and HCI technologist, and Catherine’s as a choreographer and performance artist, they engineer medium-agnostic output, joining environments, technology, and the body. Their exploration into privacy and extractive technologies began with their performance installation, On View (2019), commissioned by the SCAD Museum of Art, and continues with the Privacy Collection, a durational release of works exploring the tension between privacy and transparency in blockchain technology.

Operator has been awarded by The Lumen Prize (Immersive Environments in 2021 and Generative Art 2023), ADC Award (Gold Cube), S+T+ARTS Prize (Honorary Mention), and MediaFutures (a European Commission funded programme). They have spoken at events and institutions including Christie's Art+Tech Summit, University of Cambridge, Art Basel, ZKM, Francisco Carolinum Museum (Linz), Bloomberg ART+TECHNOLOGY, and MIT Open Documentary Lab. In MoMA’s 2023 Postcard Project, Operator was included as one of the first 15 artists to launch the project to the public.

In 2023, Operator developed an on-chain generative choreography method to realize their artwork Human Unreadable.