Welcome to the
latest showcase for my writing practice. Having studied Performance
Writing to MA level, I hope to pursue this line of enquiry further this
year to Phd level.
I
hope this blog will in the meantime serve as an answer to any questions
you may have about me or my work. Please Twitter me @plinthart if you
have any questions or opportunites for me!
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An up to date sound archive
A collection of images which relate to recent work
Links to other blogs
Links to essays on voice
Links to external sites where my work is or has been featured
An updated Artist CV
Thursday 24 May 2012
Listen Here
Sound Archive
Sound Art
The first of my series on voice produced for Soundart radio
Introduction to Voice in Art
Show on listening includes a live drawing event
Introduction to Voice in Art
Show on listening includes a live drawing event
I recently produced a new sound piece for display at the Arnolfini's Performance Writing weekend Plinth Ghosts
All sonic pieces produced and broadcasted for my MA degree show
explications for these pieces can be found here
BA degree show piece
Voice Can Harm
Voice Can Harm
Radio Art
I am currently producing a series of shows around the topic of 'voice'. These will also be displayed on SoundArt Radio more details to follow...
From September 2011- May 2012 I co-presented a radio show on Wednesday mornings with Jenny Wellwood on SoundArt Radio 102.5fm. Archives of some of those shows can be found here:
In October 2011 a compliation of my MA degree show pieces was displayed on the Radia Network network.
A Small Gallery
Image Gallery
Images from my durational assemblage piece on 'The Plinth' at the Arnolfini, Bristol can be found here;
A gallery of images from my MA degree show of 'Sonic Self Portraits' can be found here;
Sonic Self Portraits
Images of performance writing text based documentation
Page based images
An homage to former collaborator Peter Atha
Exeter 04 Collaboration with Peter Atha
Images of performance writing text based documentation
Page based images
An homage to former collaborator Peter Atha
Exeter 04 Collaboration with Peter Atha
External Sources
Other sites where my work is featured
Tiny Dog Productions chose the script of 'Chiaroscuro' for a theatre production January 2012
My final MA degree show piece was displayed across the Radia Internet Radio Network on
17/10/2011
More Words Found Elsewhere
Older Blogs
The blog for the radio show 'The Bigger Society' can be found here;
The blog which contains the dissertation for my MA can be found here;
Artist CV
Latest Artist CV
I am a performance writer whose work is primarily concerned with explorations of voice and identity.
‘Part
soundscape, part social arts project, part poem, [the] work emphasises
radios' potential as a social communication tool, a performance platform
and a community playground...’
Current Work
2015
March
Toured
in capacity of show producer for Kustom Kundst Kommandos to Buzzcut
Festival Glasgow
April
Began
R and D on Re:Mapping, an Arts Council funded programme providing art
and performance workshops for dementia and mental health patients in
Bristol of 3 years.
2014
January
Commissioned
to create a soundscape for artist Liz Council at The Brewery Theatre
on the project 'I Tattooed My Baby'
Continued
my work with Drastic Productions creating a workshop around textual
development
February
Co
created work exploring the theme of love for the Tragic Valentines
Ball at Totnes Civic Hall
May/June
Collaborated
with Liz Clarke to co-write meta-text narrative and produce
soundscape for 'Cannonballista' R and D piece shown at the Arnolfini
on July 3rd
August
Bank
holiday weekend take Cannonballista on tour to Stoke on Trent
festival as Acting Producer/coordinator
September
Commissioned
to create willow puppet scenery for a production at Shipphay School
25th
The graphic novel produced by Drastic Productions is published by
Tangent and Jonathan Cape is launched at the Arnolfini Bristol
October
Commissioned
to teach Gifted and Talented children literacy ideas at Shipphay
School Torquay
2013
January
Set
up a new audio production company Echo Network Productions CIC with
four other radio production associates in order to enable arts
projects within the community.
February
Prepare
the ground for the first Echo Network project in conjunction with the
Totnes Museum exploring the idea of aural storytelling and attachment
to artefacts within the museum.
April
Led
a two and half hour workshop/lecture on Graphic Novels for Drastic
Productions as part of a project for vulnerable women to create alter
egos within their own generative graphic novel. This is the first of
five such workshops each of which develop the textually of the
proposed novel.
May
Began
a new radio project Radio Radio which aims to bring community radio
stations together in a shared space on the airwaves for the purposes
of generating new content/ideas and artistic explorations.
October
I
began a Phd at Plymouth University in spoken word that will focus on
asking radio audiences to respond in an active way to discussions on
the voice. Activating the audience and exploring the artistic
potential of this medium as a method of looking at voice from a new
perspective.
Led
the second of five two and half hour workshop/lecture on Graphic
Novels for Drastic Productions as part of a project for vulnerable
women to create alter egos within their own generative graphic novel.
The five proposed workshops aim to develop the textuality of the
proposed finished piece.
November
Echo
Networks were asked to provide consultancy input to a research
project for the AHRC on Digital Writing. We will be partnering with
Random House, Soundart Radio and Radia network in order to create
broadcasts that will generate a creative output at the endpoint of
consumption across the globe.
2012
January
Reworks
radio show from Town Crier To Bigger Society. This show has its own
dedicated blog http://thebiggersocietyradio.blogspot.com/
. As
its name suggests this show is concerned with social engagement
issues and merges our concerns with writing/listening with
discussions around pertinent social issues on a weekly basis.
Everything from local start ups through to the Occupy movement and
the current move to change reproductive laws are looked at her; our
aim is to be as inclusive as possible and to engage with our audience
to make creative experiments such as the philosophical experiments we
read live, to live drawing with the listeners can be found among our
archived shows. Please find these
http://www.mixcloud.com/search/?mixcloud_query=longlegsrunning
Jan
24th led MA session on radio/sound work/installation at
Arnolfini in Bristol
Jan
25/6/7th
'Chic' my first stage play shown in London 25-27 Honor Oak, Forest
Hill by http://www.tinydogproductions.com/
Commissioned
to work on graphic novel by http://drasticproductions.co.uk/
May
Performance
Writing weekend invited works in Arnolfini Bristol two works
featured; an intervention staged with a sound piece and a live
durational experience created on the Plinth of assemblage (4 and half
hours) in collaboration with artist Joe Abel.
Sept
Performed
live at Mr Wolf's Big Night Out as part of the 2012 Totnes Festival
with an original spoken word piece at the Dartmouth Inn, Totnes.
http://issuu.com/totnesfestival/docs/final_totnesfestival2012_issuu
2011
April
First live performance of spoken word work at the Arnolfini,
Bristol.
Aug-Sept
degree show and Exhibition of 'sonic self-portraits' this work can be
seen at
Nov
Graduates
with Distinction from Falmouth University at Masters level in
Performance Writing
http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/140/courses-7/postgraduate-courses-43/performance-writing-ma-1688.html
This
course was studied at the Arnolfini in Bristol.
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/1107
2004
Archive
journal bookwork travels to Washington as part of a Performance
Writing showcase
Exhibition
with Peter Atha of 'conveyor belt' work 'Performance
Writing 1994-2004';
at Exeter Phoenix
Galleries, April 29 – May 16 2004
Graduates
BA Hons Dartington College of Arts 2;1 in Performance Writing
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