Catherine Machado is an artist, performer, and archive producer. She is the creator of CAT CRUSH (2022), a newsletter-turned-poetry book on love and sex.  Her work deals with mysticism, social narratives and thoughts stored in the body. Her series Bonne Santé / Merci (2023) documented her period blood on greeting cards for 6 months. Her approach is highly conceptual and experimental and is theoretically grounded in the alchemy of live performance and voice. She is currently submerged in the world of sonic poetry and the theatre, using masks as a pedagogical tool for storytelling. Most recently she played the role of ‘Time’ in the eco-feminist puppet ballet Raj Na Ziemi / Paradise on Earth by Marcela  Szwarc, which debuted in Montréal Spring 2024. The Pit Periodical and The Sun Room have published her works.