Performance

In Love (2014)

A performance devised for Art Language Location, an art festival that takes place in Cambridge, UK every October. The festival focuses on art that explores and challenges how we interact with text.

In Love recalls past lovers and our dates in Cambridge, how we write to remember and write to forget.

Cambridge is a favourite place to visit and ‘In Love’ recalls past lovers and our dates in the city – who was there, what was said, how we write to remember and write to forget. Sometimes it’s hard to remember who said what and who did what. Sometimes it’s better to forget. Some things are better left unsaid, sometimes thingss are better out than in.

The performance consisted of two performers wearing identical rubber dog masks and fur collars writing on a room’s walls along to an extended, edited, looped soundtrack of ‘I Will Follow Him’ by Little Peggy March. Vistiors were encouraged to enter the space, read what is written and write a response – they might just get a response back. They might just fall in love. But please don’t touch the animals.

Each performance lasted for 60 minutes and took place on Saturday October 25, 2014 at Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Photos: Josh Murfitt; David Vella-Shaw

London Stories (2013)

I devised a piece for London Stories, a 95 minute 1-on-1-on-1 theatrical experience at Battersea Arts Centre in London.

Visitors were paired with another audience member and toured through the venue, visiting candle-lit rooms where performers would tell a 10 minute story. My story, Like Home, centred on my experiences of life in a haunted home. The event took place from 16 - 28 September, 2013.

Like Home was also performed, or formed the basis of artist talks, at the following events:

  • Like Home // Ghost Club, London (2014)

  • Spark London: Fear // Platform Theatre, Central St Martins, London (2013)

  • Like Home // Ghost Night, London Fortean Society, London (2013)

  • London Ghost Conference// Bishopsgate Institute, London (2012)

  • Space2 Gallery, Watford Museum (2012)