Nate Speare (MFA) is a multidisciplinary artist, astrologer, and educator. His work reimagines life through performance, voice, mythopoetics, and psychoacoustic storytelling. His practice, Weird Astro Body, bridges astrological insight, experimental theatre, and therapeutic storytelling, with a focus on eroticism, desire, and the soul’s unfoldment (AstroErotics). His performances and research have been featured at Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (UK), the Myth and Theatre Festival at Pantheatre (France), and the Queer Astrology Conference, among others. Rooted in extended range singing (Pantheatre, Roy Hart, Alfred Wolfsohn), deep listening, and acoustic ecology, his artistic work investigates the body, voice, and psyche within mythopoetic and ecological landscapes. Weaving field recordings, improvisation, and astrological writing, he conjures figures and sonic worlds from the overtones of place and psyche, uncovering the mythic and shadowed dimensions of human and more-than-human ecologies. As an educator, he has developed a unique pedagogy in oral storytelling and social-emotional learning, working with NYC youth, disabled students, and incarcerated men at Rikers Island. His therapeutic storytelling has been featured at the United Nations. His interdisciplinary methodology, The Six Imaginal Zones, explores the deep imagination in theory and practice, guiding practitioners and clients into improvisational dialogues with ancestors, oral tradition, and mythic inquiry. Across his work, he relativizes the boundaries between self and environment, past and present, inviting audiences into a dance of voice, image, and deep time.
Photo credit: Ana Cantoran Viramontes