During her time at Open School East Katie developed her research into modes of protest and ways of resisting the insidious slipping of ecological and social crisis. She developed her skills in sound-work and began to think about sound and time as tools for accessing hidden knowledges. During the LIMBO residency Katie began to think about the dance floor as a space of resistance and the time-shifting potentials of sound. As part of this, she hosted a ‘cosmological protest rave’ at Cliftonville Lido, a performative event which evoked the history of the Lido raves through sound and movement. For Gut Feelings Katie developed film, sound and performance work that used the fracking site in Lancashire to think about the echo of the ecological crisis and the spreading of environmental toxicity. 

For the public programme Katie worked together with Associates Rosa Irwin Clark and Louise Webb to organise the Visionary Futures series which invited artists who make work that questions existing hegemonic structures and addresses hopeful and radical ways of living. This included invited artists Winnie Herbstein, Daniel Oliver, Marsha Bradfield and Fourthland. As part of this Katie began a series of offsite Deep Listening events at Walpole Bay and in collaboration with Associate Lizzy Rose at Crate. These aim to use tools of listening, stillness and being together in the world to provide a collaborative learning experience and safe space to think through sound, addressing things such as ecological thinking and queerness.  

Katie also worked with other Associates and staff to shape and facilitate the Despacito Art School programme and was an active part of the Open School East radio show on Radio Margate.