Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: Chloé Déchery
I have contributed to a new book edited by Chloé Déchery, and will be participating at its launch event on Tuesday 7 March, 2023. Details on the book and event below. Performing Collaboration in Solo...
View Articleit sounds like a horse galloping
An account of working as mentor for five pairs of performing artists on retreat in the Devon countryside in the form of a letter to Thomas Leabhart, a mentor to me from almost 40 years ago. Dear Tom,...
View ArticleHorizon Showcase
Always Already, an 8-hour performance installation by Karen Christopher & Tara Fatehi , has been selected for the Horizon Showcase in Edinburgh, August 23 & 25, 2023. Horizon focuses on forging...
View Articlegetting ready always
Coming back to Always Already, waking up to it after almost two years since our last public performance of it, we begin slowly, working sections, amiably re-hydrating the performance and our memories...
View Articlerepeat as long as the signal holds
I’ve contributed to Something Other’s The Eleventh Chapter: On Distractions. Read here: https://somethingother.blog/2023/06/06/repeat-as-long-as-the-signal-holds/ Links to my other contributions to...
View Articlea long slow start
Trying to find a way to work as a group of four in a time of everything waking up rusty. Little to no support for the arts and especially not if your work is ephemeral. Don't get me started on the...
View Articleremember an ocean wave
We meet again and there is one more of us present Tara Fatehi and Jemima Yong on trains from London find they are interrupted at Gillingham (on replacement buses until Sittingbourne). Jem and Tara...
View Articlethe awkward ways of going forward
23 April 2024, reflection at the start of the last day of work at Queen Mary (supported by Queen Mary University Centre for Creative Collaboration) Because we had 5 days in the BLOC cinema rooms we...
View Articlea trip to the Tank Rooms at the Natural History Museum
We went to the museum to see deep sea fish in jars. We were told that smell is the spirit evaporating. In the main hall we saw a large piece of coral with shells and other creature structures embedded...
View Articleour particles free floating
During our April session, we waited. Omikemi was expected but not present. Omikemi wasn't well enough to make it to the session but each day we hoped. As a result we started thinking about waiting,...
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