I am an artist-academic-curator whose work interrogates space and event across real, digital and imagined environments.
I make work across a range of contexts, for example:
• Where to build the walls that protect us, an Arts Council England funded, Kaleider commission (2013-14), reiterated for Compass Festival, Leeds (2016);
• 4 x 4 Screens, Live Art Development Agency commissioned DVD (2013);
• The Master Plan, Book Works/Situations co-publication, launched at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012);
• SLarristokaupunki, ANTI Festival commission, Finland and Second Life (2009);
• Exeter A-Z, Year Of The Artist commissioned digital interventions aboard Exeter’s bus fleet (2000);
• 2^6, 5 days of live art inspired by John Cage’s diary, funded by ACE and hosted by Spacex Gallery, Exeter (1997);
• for piano solo, a National Review of Live Art performance inspired by the work, life and environs of Erik Satie, Glasgow (1994).
• Where to build the walls that protect us, an Arts Council England funded, Kaleider commission (2013-14), reiterated for Compass Festival, Leeds (2016);
• 4 x 4 Screens, Live Art Development Agency commissioned DVD (2013);
• The Master Plan, Book Works/Situations co-publication, launched at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012);
• SLarristokaupunki, ANTI Festival commission, Finland and Second Life (2009);
• Exeter A-Z, Year Of The Artist commissioned digital interventions aboard Exeter’s bus fleet (2000);
• 2^6, 5 days of live art inspired by John Cage’s diary, funded by ACE and hosted by Spacex Gallery, Exeter (1997);
• for piano solo, a National Review of Live Art performance inspired by the work, life and environs of Erik Satie, Glasgow (1994).
I am a core member of Wrights & Sites, four artist-researchers who, for over twenty years, have focused on people’s relationships to places, cities and walking. We employ disrupted walking tactics as tools for playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making. The outcomes of our work vary from project to project, but frequently include site-specific performance, Mis-Guided Tours (e.g. Stadtverführungen in Wien, Tanzquartier Wien and Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, 2007), published Mis-Guides (e.g. A Mis-Guide To Anywhere, launched ICA, London, 2006, and more recently The Architect-Walker: A Mis-Guide, 2018), ‘drifts’, mythogeographic mapping, public art (e.g. Everything you need to build a town is here for ‘Wonders of Weston’, CABE/Situations, Weston-super-Mare, 2010) or installations (e.g. mis-guided, Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, 2008), as well as public presentations and articles.
I am Emeritus Professor in Live Art + Spatial Practices at the University of Exeter, where I worked for three decades, and was formerly Head of the Department of Drama and the Director of Arts + Culture, responsible for co-writing and delivering a cross-college, cross-campus Arts + Culture Strategy. I convened the Centre for Contemporary Performance Practices, and have also taught on the BA Art History and Visual Culture, MA Theatre Practice and MA Creativity programmes. I chose to step back from full-time academia in late 2024 in order to focus on my practice.
I am a trustee of In Between Time, (2017-present), and have been: a Co-Director of the AHRC-funded Knowledge Exchange Hub REACT (Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technology, 2013-16); the theatre, dance and live art curator at Exeter Phoenix, (2001-12); a member of the New Theatre Architects, an ACE-initiated think tank that sought to challenge artists and organisations to think about new models of making and supporting theatre in England (2003-09); and a board member, critical friend or associate to numerous organisations (e.g. Kaleider, Live Art UK, New Work Network, Spacex Gallery, Wide Awake Devon, b-side festival, Theatre Alibi, and Exeter and Devon Arts Centre).