About

Installation | Live Performance | Digital

Kaleider is producers Katie Keeler and Jocelyn Mills, artist and producer Irene Urrutia, manager Peter Vanderford, and artist and director Seth Honnor. We are also all the freelancers who make up our production teams, and the partnerships that help our work meet audiences. We combine installation, live performance, and digital in our artworks, almost always in collaboration.

We tour to cities, festivals, venues and public spaces all over the world. In the last 5 years we have performed 338 gigs in 11 countries on 3 continents to an estimated 339,550 people.

Kaleider Studios is in Exeter, UK and is where we make our work and run projects.

We share our space with other creative organisations and individuals, many of whom we collaborate with and who collaborate with each other.

Kaleider is an IN SITU artist 2020 – 2024 (UN) COMMON SPACES. IN SITU is the European platform for artistic creation in public space.

We want an accessible, anti-racist, inclusive & sustainable future

Our society has a long history of inequality, trauma and persecution by a culture of white patriarchy. We want to counter the continued levels of systemic racism, ableism and prejudice in the UK and around the world, and we stand in opposition to all discrimination. We believe this is our route to a more sustainable and equitable future. We are committed to always being in motion, unlearning and improving, working towards a better future for all, through the work and programmes that we produce.

Meet Our Team

At Kaleider we pride ourselves on being an open, exciting, caring, and interesting place to work, where our staff team is always learning.

Seth Honnor (he/him)

Seth Honnor (he/him)

Seth is the Founder of Kaleider and our Artistic Director. His artistic practice combines installation, performance and digital, and he leads the company with Executive Producer Katie.

Katie Keeler (she/her)

Katie Keeler (she/her)

Katie is our Executive Producer. She heads up all production, leads the producing team and runs the company with Seth.

Peter Vanderford (he/him)

Peter Vanderford (he/him)

Peter is Kaleider's General Manager. He leads on finance, administration and manages the company.

Jocelyn S Mills (she/her)

Jocelyn S Mills (she/her)

Jocelyn is a Producer at Kaleider leading on national and international touring. She is especially interested in how/where artworks and audiences meet. Jocelyn is a Trustee on Unlimited’s newly formed board.

Irene Xochitl Urrutia (she/her)

Irene Xochitl Urrutia (she/her)

Irene is an Artist and Producer at Kaleider. Her collaborative practice is based on a background in art & design, curating, and research. She is on the Board of The Pink Cube, a platform for queer art and culture.

Regular freelance collaborators

At Kaleider we work regularly with some brilliant freelancers.

Tanuja Amarasuriya (she/her)

Tanuja Amarasuriya (she/her)

Tanuja is a director, dramaturg and occasional sound artist. Her work is rooted in theatre, as well as film, audio, video games and creative technology. She is a resident at Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio. Tanuja was the dramaturg on Arch.

Laïla Diallo (she/her)

Laïla Diallo (she/her)

Laïla is a performer, movement director and choreographer working primarily across dance, theatre and opera. She co-directs GATHER UP, a Bristol-based artist-led dance development initiative. With Kaleider, Laïla worked on Arch and performed in The Money.

Jay Kerry (he/him)

Jay Kerry (he/him)

Jay is a freelance Production Manager at Kaleider, often on tour with our work. In his own practice Jay works with digital technologies to create experiences that take place alongside everyday life and extend over a period of days, weeks or months.

Katja Mordaunt (she/her)

Katja Mordaunt (she/her)

Katja is a web app developer specialising in leading the design and implementation of digital services for social good.

Lorna Rose (she/her)

Lorna Rose (she/her)

Lorna was one of Kaleider's Women Leaders South West associates. Her interests lie in Black contemporary art and questioning the structures and processes that marginalise Black creatives. She is a member of the British Art Network’s Emerging Curator’s Group and is developing her own artistic practice in print-making.

Kris Sum (he/him)

Kris Sum (he/him)

We partner with Kris and Tech Exeter to deliver Exeter Network for Art and Creative Technology events and frequently collaborate with Kris as a creative technology consultant on our artworks. Kris is an integral part of the team for Robot Selfie.

Andy Wood (he/him)

Andy Wood (he/him)

Andy is a Creative Technologist collaborating on Robot Selfie, A Portrait Without Borders and Our Dancing Shadows. He was a Creative Technologist on the 3 year collaborative project South West Creative Technology Network 2018 - 2021.

Meet Our Board

In 2023 and 2024 our Board is transitioning to a new governance structure.

Jo Lansdowne (she/her)

Jo Lansdowne (she/her)

Jo is Executive Producer of Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed. She explores methodologies that bring people of diverse backgrounds together in collaborative rather than competitive modes of production. She believes that knowledge, technology and culture might be more evenly distributed if developed through inclusive, caring and critically engaged processes and networks.

Annette Mees (she/her)

Annette Mees (she/her)

Annette is an award-winning immersive theatre director known for her innovative, interdisciplinary, experiential works with audiences to explore big ideas and meaningful change. She is the Artistic Director of Audience Labs; a hub for imagination connecting artists, technologists, researchers, experts, and communities to explore new equitable futures through culture.

Jazlyn Pinckney (she/her)

Jazlyn Pinckney (she/her)

Jazlyn is Executive Producer at Air Giants. With a passion for inclusive design and equitable data, Jazlyn’s work focuses on implementing and evaluating thoughtful inclusion strategies that deliver impactful cultural and institutional change.

Seth Honnor and Katie Keeler are also Company Directors