The Powers is the collaborative practice of Katherine Kline, Jessica Mensch, and Emily Pelstring. Founded in 2014, The Powers operates simultaneously as a band, research collective, and interdisciplinary performance group. Their work weaves alternate realities through video, music, storytelling, choreography, and ritual-inflected performance, constructing alternative feminist mythologies that move fluidly between stage, screen, and gallery. The collective has presented lectures and exhibited at venues including the RISD Museum (Providence), Hesse Flatow (New York), Oddstream (Netherlands), the Feminist Media Studio (Montreal), Musagetes Foundation (Guelph), Artcite (Windsor, Ontario), Indexical (Santa Cruz). In 2019, The Powers co-directed the SSHRC-funded project Sistership TV, a livestreamed variety show developed in collaboration with seventeen artists. The project’s live stage adaptations toured through nine North American cities, and in 2023 it was reimagined as the gallery installation Fortuna Perplexus, coinciding with the vinyl release of The Powers first album, Tentacles (Personal Records, Montreal).

Artist Code: 2128