October 8th. Day 2. Residency Thinking about the act of performing in an empty space. Here in the gallery i am affected by the possibility that someone will arrive at any point, keeping me alert to the movement and the small events of the space in a different way. Sometimes people enter and encounter the midst of the performance, at times this seems to create a hesitancy…some people leave, some stay: for some there is a Read More
To begin, i lie on the gallery floor, breathing as fully as i can, remembering how an embryo practices breathing in utero, before it is born. People begin to enter the space and i am drawn into performing some of the studies for them. Conversations follow from the performances: about the relative hardness of objects alongside the softness of the body, about Newtown and the generosity of the people here, about perspective and scale in relation Read More
Over the last 2 years i have made regular field recordings in Coedmor, a place i pass through on my walk, or cycle to my studio in Llangoedmor, in the lower Teifi valley. As part of his commission for Studies for Maynard my collaborator and Melbourne- based sound artist Barnaby Oliver has laid down some of these original field recordings in a timeline. In 3 live studio sessions in May he added accompaniment with piano, violin, Read More
During the summer i have been working with film maker Tanya Syed. we have been finding ways to film Studies for Maynard. Developing a visual and choreographic language that translates the performance into a piece for video. It has been, and continues to be, a complex process, it has helped me understand the ways in which this work can be seen, experienced… We will show a work in process treatment as part of my residency at Read More
This is an example page. It’s different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I’m a bike messenger by day, aspiring actor by night, and this is my website. I live in Los Angeles, have a great dog named Read More