Reflecting on the ‘Letters from Europe’ originally published in the second issue of Performance Research (in 1994), ‘Apologies for my English’ explores writing ‘from Europe’ today (in 2018), where the question of translation between languages is largely pre-empted by English as a ‘universal’ second language. Considering how English currently orient...
A talk at the first takeover of The National Maritime Museum's Atlantic Gallery: Slavery, Trade, Empire. The takeover, organised by The FXRUM, is an intervention to commemorate and rethink the legacy of Black Atlantic history and culture. ‘The Joy in the Punch’ refers to the experience of having to interrogate structures of oppression and the need ...
This project is about developing an open, interactively programmed 3D printing system for live computational making. It explores the role of improvisation and intuition in making new computational forms. This system extends digital printing and CNC machining into the realm of performance and also has potential in design and science pedagogy. For th...
Emily Rosamond opens up a few avenues of exploration toward a surveillance capitalist aesthetics in her talk, by remarking on the aesthetics of reputational value, and the particularities of addressivity in surveillance-capitalist scenarios. “Surveillance capitalism”, a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff in 2015, describes a new regime of accumulation,...
Solo presentation as part of the group exhibition for the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture
As Jean Fisher (2010) argues, ‘To focus and judge work on the basis of ethnic or racial markers’ can serve as ‘confirmation of expectation, even prejudice’ positioning the artist as ‘anthropological “native informer”’ – which ignores ‘the unique artistic dimension and experience of the work’ and overlooks its potential ‘to deterritoralise’ these ve...
Robert Wilson is an American–European director who is also a performer, installation artist, writer, designer of light and much more besides – a crossover polymath who dissolves both generic and geographical boundaries and is a precursor of globalisation in the arts. This second edition of Robert Wilson combines: An analysis of his main productions...
modus: a mode of procedure a way of doing something Contemporary fashion culture is seeing creative practitioners actively seeking to challenge traditional practices and question the very definition of their discipline. While the mainstream fashion industry continues to uphold commercial boundaries, there are emergent practices that propose alterna...
Despite evidence for music-specific mechanisms at the level of pitch-pattern representations, the most fascinating aspect of music is its transmodality. Recent psychological and neuroscientific evidence suggests that music is unique in the coupling of perception, cognition, action, and emotion. This potentially explains why music has been since tim...
