Research Projects:
April / May 2012 - Connection / Time, Research and Development project with Dane Watkins, in partnership with Knowle West Media Centre, Arnolfini and Station artspace, Bristol, and involving live digital documentation and experiments in collective durational performance, with a number of other South West based artists, including Caroline Wilkins, Clare Thornton, H.Ren, Phil Owen, Soozy Roberts and Stephen Robins.
2006 – 2009 PhD ‘Reconfiguring the human : the becoming-other of performance’*, supported by AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, University of Bristol and Arnolfini. Awarded by University of Bristol, July 2010.
*Copies of the thesis are currently held in the University of Bristol’s Arts and Social Sciences library, and in Arnolfini’s Reading Room, Bristol. It should also be available online via the British Library’s EThOS site, but unfortunately not for immediate download as the files are too big (the thesis contains appendices of digital documentation relating to performances addressed in each chapter). If you are at an institution, your library might be able to order a DVD or hard copy of the thesis via EThOS (and pick up the cost), otherwise drop me a line below and I can probably send a DVD copy for around £10.
Selected Publications:
2010 – ‘When the body becomes too much: writing on becoming-locust and the spectacle of theory’Platform, Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts, Vol. X Issue 1, London: RHUL.
2007 – Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration, (inclusion of collaborative photographs and essay) Manuel Vason (ed. Dominic Johnson), Cornerhouse.
2007 – The CAT Show, Samizdat Press.
2006 - Re:Imaging Wales (featured artist and contributor) (ed. Hugh Adams), Seren Books.
2006 – Sense in Place: Site-ations international, Europe 2005/6, UWIC.
2005 – ‘On a Series of Queer Becomings’, Rhizomes Journal, Issue 11, Dublin / online.
2005 – Of Contradiction, Trace: Welsh Artists’ Residency, Beijing, Trace: / Dadao.
2004 – ‘Between Man and Dog’ (with Matias Short), Brooklyn Review 21, NYC: Brooklyn College.
Conference papers :
2012 (forthcoming) – ‘Actuating the anomalous: performance art’s negotiation with the secular spiritual’, Performing Rituals Conference, University of Aberystwyth.
2011 – ‘Shamanoid 2.0’, Who do we think we are? Representing the Human, Symposium. RHUL, London.
2010 – ‘The performance of shamanoid becomings’, (Re)Performing the Posthuman, Conference, University of Sussex.
2010 – Response to ‘In Time’ publication by Live Art UK, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2009 – ‘On the Art of Loving and Giving’, TaPRA annual conference, Plymouth.
2007 – ‘Becoming-animal in contemporary art practices’, Art Nomade, Chicoutimi, Quebec.
