BIOGRAPHY

Mad Kate | The Tide is a post-punk conceptual performance project featuring Jacopo Bertacco aka The Tide on guitar, loops, and electronics, Mad Kate on vocals, poetry, contact mics, and performance, and Sara Neidorf on drums.

Their latest singles, This is the Hand and Generate Content, are part of the upcoming album Stage and Bedroom—a fiercely political, queer, sex-positive, and punk-driven exploration of labor, production, war, and power.

Rooted in conceptual inquiry and text-based explorations, Mad Kate | The Tide weaves dynamic sonic landscapes of punk, acoustic folk, psychedelic rock, and spoken word. Their performances blend raw honesty with darkly provocative movement and performance art, designed to challenge and stir audiences.

In their largest multimedia work to date, ALIVE:ness, they explore questions that permeate all their projects: To what extent are we truly present in each other’s lives—physically, emotionally, electronically, and even beyond life and death—within a landscape of virtual interaction and shifting identities? How do we define presence when our very existence is shaped by the way we engage both physically and digitally with those closest to us? What does it mean to queer identity in a globalized world, not only as an act of self-expression but as a strategy for community building and solidarity?

DISCOGRAPHY

• The Morning Waking (EP/essays, 2020) – on rape and the politics of consent
• ALIVE:ness (LP/eBook, 2014) – on animacy in the digital age
• Combinatorics (EP/eBook, 2013) – a meditation on mourning
• will be ready: the Teufelsberg session (LP, Freudian Slit Records, 2013)
• Leather Jacket (Single/remix, 2012) – on transmasculinities and darkrooms

SELECT LIVE PERFORMANCES

• This is the Hand / Generate Content Release Party, Schokoladen (Berlin, Germany 2024)
• Wild at Heart TV 22 (Berlin, Germany 2020)
• Pugs in Love Queer Festival, Maxim Gorki Theatre Studio Я, (Berlin, Germany 2019)
• Festival Automne en Normandie, Peaches Extravaganza and Guests (Tetris, Le Havre 2013)
• ich bin ein Berliner Festival (S036 Berlin 2013)
• Lumiere Bleue (Alte Damenschue Fabrik, Leipzig 2013)
• Copenhagan International Performance Art Festival with Penny Arcade (Warehouse 9 2012)
• Slutwalk Soli Party with Peaches (About/Blank, Berlin 2012)
• Göttingen Antifee Festival (headliner, 2012)