Artworks and performance
LIVE FROM HOME
Founding Producer/Curator, London and Athens
A collaborative platform for artworks, projects and events investigating social agency and the translocal
Due to launch in spring/summer 2011. http://www.thisislivefromhome.org
Dubito²
Artist/Performer, created in collaboration with Vassiliki Dimou
Locus Solus, BENAKI Museum, Pireos Street Annexe, Athens, 24 Sept – 10 Oct 2010
Travelling Ideas: An (In-)complete Manifesto
Curator and Producer with Gigi Argyropoulou
Performance Matters Launch, Club Row Gallery, London, April 2010
38 artists/writers participated in this durational installation/exhibition (tour in development)
Gratefulness
Performer/Voice
Artwork conceived and written by Matthew Goulish, Goat Island, Chicago and Every House Has a Door
10 Performances, Beyond Text, Roehampton University, 26 November 2009
Night Shift Drifts: Mis-Tours
Participating artist, PSi 15, Zagreb, Croatia, 24-28 June, 2009
Story Surgery
One-to-one performance
Enacted at:
WRITING ENCOUNTERS, Space between words, York, 11-13 September, 2008
WHITSTABLE BIENNALE, Whitstable, 28 June-1 July, 2008
INTIMACY
across visceral & digital performance festival at Goldsmiths, The Albany,
LABAN, December, 2007
The Banquet Room, Candid Arts, May, 2007
Toynbee Studios, London, March, 2007
Re-enactment
Participatory performance for groups of 3-6
WRITING ENCOUNTERS, Space between words, York, 11-13 September, 2008
Thought Marathon
Performance Intervention
OLYMPIC DREAM, Grunts for the Arts, Rational Rec Picnic, 5 July 2008
Evidence
Sound work
WHITSTABLE BIENNALE, Local, Whitstable, 30 June, 2008
I can’t find you and you’ve
got the things I’d often leave unspoken
Director, Durational performance
People Show, London, 11-12 June, 2007
64c
8 channel sound and visual installation in an unoccupied flat
Ickburgh Road, London, 28 May-1 June, 2007
Funeral of Unwanted Things
Installation and text
Toynbee Studios, London during Franko B Residency, 2007
Space of memory: intimate narratives
Research
and development project exploring these concerns through a series home visits
in Liverpool, Glasgow, London and the creation of a trilogy of works, 2006-2007
Farewell Stairwell
Performer, Director: Hannah Bruce, Mall Road, London, supported by Crying Out Loud, 2005
Within
Concept/Artistis Director/Producer
Sound/light-based durational installation
St Augustine’s Tower, London, 2004
Purse
Solo intervention
Barras Chip Shop, Trongate, Glasgow, 2004
Artery
Sound/video work
Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, V International Digital ArtsFestival, Havana, CUBA, 2003
Dance for Radio
Director/performer: sound work created via sited-choreography
Broadcast on The Framwork Show, RESONANCE FM, 2002
The Whispering Gallery, St Pauls Cathedral, London
Greenwich Foot Tunnel, London
Clissold Park, London
The Shakespeare Public House, London
An Imaginary day in the Life
Director/choreographer: dance film, West
Green Centre, London, 2002
24hrs in Green Lanes
Director/choreographer: dance film, Northern Exposure Dance
Festival, The Bull, London, 2001
Untitled 1 and Untitled 2
Director/choreographer, OPENLOOK International Dance Festival, St Petersburg, RUSSIA, 2001
Celebrate South Africa
Dancer, Soweto Dance Theatre, Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, London, 2001
Mine
Performer, Jane Munro Dance, Dance on Screen festival, The Place Theatre, London, film, 2001
Sweet Things
Performer, Jane Munro Dance, Chats Palace, London, 2001
Cat & Mutton Bridge E5
Director/Choreogrpaher, dance film, Dance
Film Forum, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2000
Dress / Shift
Dancer, Jane
Munro Dance at Theatre of Memory Theatre of Myth, The Plunge
Club 24 hour Live
Art event,
London, Curated by Rene Eyre, 2000
Automatic Histories
Director/Choreographer, Chats
Palace, London, 1999
The Last Supper
Performer, Director/Photographer: Alison
Jackson, Holborn Studios, Central Saint Martin’s and Royal College
of Art, London, 1997
Flat Matinée
Choreographer, Bonnie
Bird Theatre, LABAN, London, 1996
Unauthorized Entry
Dancer, Choreography: Belinda Blight, Bonnie Bird
Theatre, LABAN, London, 1996
Residencies
Franko B residency
Artsadmin,
London
One of 7 selected artists creating work/discussing practice with Franko B over a week, 2007
The Snout Belly Bowel in
performance practice, Chisenhale Dance Space, London
Resident Artist over a
6 week period
Proximity senses in journey and one-to-one based peformance and installation, 2005
Expo
Enez Vaz, Ile de
Batz Festival, Brittany, France
Invited
to create a series of site-located interventions on the island, 2004
OPENLOOK International Dance Festival, St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
Site-specific performance and installation
The residencey culminated in the creation of two live works, 2001
Awards & Research
PERFORMANCE MATTERS, Goldsmiths, Roehampton and Live Art Development Agency
Associated Researcher on a creative reserarch project exploring the challenges that contemporary performance presents to ideas of cultural value, 2009-2012
Dramaturgies of fissure: a poetics of (auto)biography through place
Doctoral Research, Centre for Theatre Research in Europe, Roehampton University, Supervised by Professor Adrian Heathfield and Dr Fiona Wilkie, 2008-present, (4 year Scholarship, initially at Chichester University, Dance Department)
Space of memory: intimate narratives
Arts Council England and Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation project funding, 2007-2006
The Snout Belly Bowel in performance practice
Artist Residency funding, Chisenhale Dance Space, London, 2005
Within
Arts Council England, London project funding, 2004
Dance, Theatre & Digital Arts in
Havana, Cuba
5 week research trip to Cuba: interviews and
rehearsal observations
Arts Council England professional development award, 2003
Dance4Radio RESONANCE FM
Jerwood Space: Space Subsidy, 2002
Dance Film Residency, Park View Academy, London
London Arts project funding, 2001
Openlook International Dance Festival,
St Petersburg, Russia
Residency funded by Pro-Arte Institute, 2001
New dance practice in post-USSR St. Petersburg
London Arts GO! Award, 2001
Cat & Mutton Bridge E5
Princes Youth Business Trust award, 2000
LABAN Centre for Movement & Dance
Full scholarship, 1993-1996
Teaching practice & Workshops
Performing Arts/Dance Lecturer, Northampton University, Performance Studies Department
Undergraduate modules: Dance as Art, Choreographic Lab, Producing, 2007
Emplacement and Memory workshop programme accompanying Space of Memory: Intimate Narratives
A SPACE for Creative Learning & Support at Mossbourne School, London
Project Manager and Workshop leader with Shunt artist Anna Frisch, 2006
Workshop programme accompanying tower installation: Within
Shacklewell Primary in partnership with A SPACE, London
Project Manger and Workshop leader with composer Ged Barry, 2004
Dance Film Residency, Park View Academy, London
Artistic Director/workshop leader/project manager
5 week workshop to devise and shoot a short film, 2001
Working from Location: Vocal and Movement Response, Ekaterinberg Contemporary Arts Centre, Russia
Workshop Leader
Performance lab with undergraduate drama students, October 2001
Youth Live, Chats Palace Arts Centre, London
Workshop Tutor
Weekly classes in creative dance and drama leading to performance for 14-17 year olds & 5-8 year olds, 1999
Youth Arts Programme, Mole Valley District Council, Surrey
Co-ordinator, Dance Animateur and Workshop tutor
Set up and ran the programme in local schools and venues, 1996-1995
Creative Dance workshops, LABAN Centre for Movement & Dance, London
Dance Teacher, after school workshops for 8-12 year olds, 1996-1995
Other professional experience
Programme Curator: A Sense of Place, Chisenhale Gallery
Co-ordination and creative production to set-up a working model for a 3 year project, commissioning artists to make an artwork series with Tower Hamlets schools, 2008-2009
An Experiment in Collaboration, Jerwood Visual Arts Summer Exhibition, Jerwood Space Gallery, London
Researcher/Writer Contributor
Worked with curator on devising/writing catalogue, blog and exhibition concept, 2008
NMP Anti-Racist Trust, London, Finance Officer, 2005-2007
Akademi South Asian Dance UK, London, Audience development officer, 2003
Escapade, Royal Festival Hall, London
Event Manager of Press/VIP Reception and part of marketing team for Escapade, 2003
IRIE! Dance Theatre, London, Education Manager
Artistic direction and management of education programme, 1999-2001
DFEE Partners for Study Support Scheme, IRIE! Dance Theatre
Project Manager & fund-raiser of 12 month creative dance programme in London schools, 2000-2001
AGORA ADAPT project: Theatre, dance and new media networks in the UK and the Netherlands
European Social Fund Project, London, Bologna and Amsterdam, 1999-2000
Arts Consultant and Member of Management Committee, including:
The Way Ahead: Arts and New Technology
The Society for Old and New Media, De Waag and Nes Theaters, Amsterdam
Chaired and Co-ordinated 4 day salon with 10 invited dance/theatre specialists from London, 2000
The Angel Map, Shape Islington, London
Project Manager/Facitlitator
Arts project on the sensory encounter of The Angel area of Islington from the perspective of a group of visually impaired local residents, 1999
Vinyl Dreams, Shape Islington, London
Marketing for music recording project, 1999
Islington Dance Festival, Islington
Council Arts & Heritage & Sadler’s Wells at Union Chapel Theatre
Stage Manager, 1999
International Woman’s Day Festival, Islington Town Hall, Islington Arts & Heritage
Stage Manager, 1999
Story Time, Candid Gallery, London (and subsequently touring UK and Israel)
Curator’s Assistant to Anna Sherbany
The first exhibition in the UK to present in parallel the work of contemporary Palestinian and Jewish artists, from the landmass which encompasses Palestine/Israel, 1998
Education
Current
PhD candidate, Centre for Theatre Research in Europe, Roehampton University
Dramaturgies of fissure: a poetics of (auto)biography through place
Supervised by Professor Adrian Heathfield and Dr Fiona Wilkie
2001-2002
ECRC case studentship, Institute of Education, University of London, Doctoral research in social psychology of learning in arts in education
1996-1993
LABAN Centre for Movement and Dance, London, (scholarship)
BA Honours Dance Theatre 2:1
1993-1991
Dance
Foundation, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
Further training
2010
Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance, Registry ID: 52934, RYT 200
Completed teacher training at Yandara Yoga Institute, Mexico (May/June 2010), BWY foundation (Jan-March 2007), Yoga practice: Ashtanga, Hatha, Hatha Fusion, Bikram (regular practice 2002 on)
2009
DJ academy course, Ministry of Sound, London (December)
2008
Workshop with Barbara Campbell at Central Saint Martins, London, on the intersection between writing, performance and drawing
2007
Franko B mentoring scheme, Artsadmin, One of 7 UK artists selected for a 12
month mentoring programme with Franko B
Gary Stevens Performance Lab, Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios, London
The Performance of Intimacy, Sam Rose, Live Art Development Agency DIY 4, Dance4, Nottingham, one-to-one performance
2005
Rough Cut Theatre, London, 12 week Performers Development Programme in
Le Coq and other forms of physical theatre
2004
Liam Steel and Rob Tannion, Laban, London
Performace workshop drawing on excerpts from Sarah Kane’s play, Crave
Feldenkrais, Scott Clark
Chisenhale Dance Space, London
Deprivation and Overload: Richard Layzell
National Review of Live Art Winter school, Glasgow
2003
Simon McBurney: physical performance
masterclass
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
2002
Ishmael Houston-Jones: Voice,
movement and text
Jerwood International Summer School, London
Goat Island devising weekend
Dance4, Nottingham
1999
Directors Lab with Shabnam Shabazi: 6 month weekly directors’ forum and workshop space
Chats Palace, London
Lectures and Publications
In the liminal space of making: the blog as an analogy of process
An Experiment in Collaboration catalogue and blog
Jerwood Visual Arts Summer Exhibition, Jerwood Space Gallery, London, August 2008
Cuban dance theatre: The Legacy of Ramiro Guerra
Dance Theatre Journal, vol 22 issue 2, London, 2007
Sensing Space - Place and Memory: Conditions of reverie and resonance in the making of artwork Chichester University, 2006
Cultural topographies and a poetics of taste, touch and smell
Chichester University, 2005