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Sprawl July 8, 2017 practice A scratch performance by Shaun McLeod and Simon Ellis presented at the Dance and Somatic Practices Conference, 8 July 2017 Photos courtesy of

practice of value June 12, 2017 blog The value of practice gets discussed a lot in dance. I remember US choreographer Deborah Hay saying something like, “99% of my choreography is the

mediawall June 5, 2017 blog Last year screendance artist Katrina McPherson asked Owa Barua, Natalia Barua and me to be involved in a project that explored ideas to do with

feeding research April 15, 2017 blog A bit more than a year ago I participated in a Research Salon at the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries at Auckland University. Each of the

on leaving facebook April 12, 2017 blog There are, as you can imagine, a number of posts that list reasons to leave Facebook: there’s the Men’s Journal reasons, the New Year’s resolution

blogging to save the new precariat March 5, 2017 blog Contemporary academic life is precarious; it’s fast, mean and lean. Our public aim is to build community around the practices and concerns

showing not telling February 27, 2017 blog I’m deep into Bruce Springsteen’s autobiography Born to Run. I like Springsteen’s music (yes, since that video with Courtney Cox in 1984), and have

anamnesis italiano February 20, 2017 blog

In 2009 I made a short film called Anamnesis with Cormac Lally, Bagryana Popov, David Corbet, and Liz Jones. Around that time I asked Marika Rizzi

letting us know that they know February 4, 2017 blog The thing about conflicts of interest is that they are inevitable. I’ve experienced them from various sides: I’ve benefited from them, missed out

hazelnut chocolate December 23, 2016 blog I’ve had this blog since November 2008 and in that time I’ve never posted either a recipe or anything about conflicts of interest. Here’s a recipe

portrait December 12, 2016 practice

52 Portraits is a project by Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion, and Hugo Glendinning. Colin, Simon and I was invited to perform a portrait in

springsteen on pure experience December 11, 2016 blog So whether you’re making dance music, Americana, rap music, electronica, it’s all about how you are putting what you do together. The elements

curse of knowledge October 30, 2016 blog When better-informed people find it extremely difficult to think about problems from the perspective of lesser-informed people An example of the

we record ourselves October 17, 2016 blog I’m not long back from Ferness in Scotland where I had the pleasure to work with Owa Barua, Katrina McPherson, and Natalia Barua on a screen project

We Record Ourselves October 15, 2016 practice

[single screen film (8 mins/stereo/2016) + 22 screen installation (5 mins/2016)] In 1997 film-maker Katrina McPherson tried to get a film

numbers and evil September 9, 2016 blog In this sentence psychologist James Hillman could be describing neoliberalism … Working the levers of duty, following the hierarchy of command

documenting the document August 3, 2016 blog

Previously I’ve posted links to Windows and MacOS copies of my practice-as-research PhD project Indelible (2005). For people using Intel versions of

disciplines July 24, 2016 blog Surrenders to conventionality are what disciplines are. The disciplines are social systems that raise their partial ‘as if’ perspectives from mere

one simple assumption July 13, 2016 blog As we argue vociferously for our view, we often fail to question one crucial assumption upon which our whole stance in the conversation is built: I

empathetic writing July 10, 2016 blog I heard the term empathetic writing yesterday while talking with two content designers Louise Stone and Lil Boyce. Louise described empathetic