Coming Soon

A Ray In The Life: A Psychogeographical Negotiation


A new project with Raymond Wong and Oscar Oldershaw for the exhibition Hong Kong Whispers.

20th January -26th February 2011
Preview 19th January 2011 6.30-9pm

Contemporary Arts and Learning
198 Railton Road
London SE24 oJT

"Hong Kong Whispers is a group exhibition, which addresses the cultural and historical relationship between Hong Kong and the UK. Proposing a definition of an art exhibition analogous to a game of Chinese Whispers. The exhibition explores the miscommunications that happen in cross cultural art exhibition, and attempts to create a space in which meanings can be discussed, debated, and challenged."

As the Arts Council England cut their funding for the exhibition, our budget has been entirely provided by the Hong Kong Economics Office. So far, we've used it to buy well deserved kebabs.

http://www.wix.com/hongkongwhispers/hongkongwhispers

Nulepsy - Jess Rhinland

Me helping out on Jess's film shoot (photo Harley Weir, 2010)

Thundercrack!

Poster we made for a screening of Curt McDowell's Thundercrack!

Oct 24th 09

bowlers

Ray Melvin’s Strike Guys

My friend Oscar Oldershaw asked me to help him out with a project a couple of weeks ago which involved taking a semi fictional bowling team on a short (one night only) tour that was part chaotic car chase and part leisurely reunion and dance off. I was officially involved simultaneously as team photographer, project documenter and inside informer. But this role in itself was part of a more performative aspect.

I’ll hopefully add more details and some more of the photographs as soon as Oscar decides what he wants to do with them.





I also helped out with a soundtrack of sorts:
http://www.mediafire.com/?lzqmwvmv3nm

work in progress..

Whispering Grass (Don’t Tell the Trees)

Work in progress. Film starring Heathcote Williams (actor, playwright) about a giant cat formed forest spirit further exploring narrative as a collaborative engagement. Upon completion this will be screened first as a b-movie at the Fiddlers Island Film Festival Oxford. The FIFF are an outdoor group that uses the same space that was used as a backdrop for the main scenes in the film.

Heathcote and FIFF

jack's robot

Jack's Robot 4:48

james and michael

Michael and James 4:29

A film exploring reconstruction, genre and documentation and the effect of a camera on a situation. We left two friends in a room with a camera rolling talking for half an hour. The same night Oscar Oldershaw and I transcribed a section of dialogue to make a script for a re-enactment which was shot the next day. Part of a continuing investigation into narrative instabilities..

naked lunch at the drive in

We taped a video camera to the dashboard before driving out to get lunch at a burger place. We left the camera rolling for the duration of the journey capturing the sounds and movements made by the four people in the car. As the tape ran out of film on our return, we rewound it to the beginning and threw it out of the moving car window. Two of us saw it bounce breifly.

Tape throwing performance reconstruction

Reconstructed film ‘stills’ from tape throwing performance