selected live art & performance projects
2009
Bestiary Solo performance for PANIC Exhibition curated by Guerrilla Zoo also featuring Alexandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor at The Old Abattoir, London
The Sacred Conspiracy Solo performance for Visions of Excess at Warehouse 9, Copenhagen
A History of Ecstasy commissioned by Museo Madre and the Napoli Teatro Festival, June 2009.
Directed by Ron Athey and also featuring Vaginal Davis, Julie Tolentino, Pigpen, Mouse and Ernesto Tomasini with music by Othon Mataragas
Visions of Excess Co-curated with Ron Athey. Commissioned by SPILL Festival of Performance and staged at SHUNT Vaults, London
The SPILL Performance Tarot as part of SPILL 2009. The project brought together an array of maverick artists from around the world in order to create a new deck of tarot cards
2008
The Sacred Conspiracy Devised and first performed during Praxis, 10 day artists bootcamp in Mohave Desert, California
Untitled Butoh performance improvisation with Katsura Kan, Gabriella Daris, Grundik Kasyansky & Jack Wright at SHUNT Vaults, London
Revisions of Excess Co-curated with Ron Athey. Commissioned by Fierce! for the closing event of the 10th Anniversary of the Fierce! Festival
The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth Co-curated with Ron Athey. Commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London as part of the exhibition Picasso, Miro, Masson & the vision of Georges Bataille
Stars Fall From Heaven devised collaborative performance with Othon Mataragas, Ernesto Tomasini & Helen Spackman. Produced as part of Sonic Swamp curated by composer Stephen Montague & commissioned by Eye Music for the Colourscape Festival 2006
Encounters photographic/live art project with Manuel Vason & Empress Stah published by Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
The Mark of Cain solo performance commissioned by George Tamvakologos for United III at Club Underworld, Athens
Bindu Point collaboration with digital media artist Martin Franklin. Performed at the 8th International Generative Art Conference, Politecnico di Milano University, Milan
Calling All Agents devised and produced by The International Necronautical Society (INS) at the ICA, London
Bindu Point collaboration with digital media artist Martin Franklin. Performed at the Out There Festival, South Hill Park Arts Centre & the Sonorities Festival at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast
Iconostasis collaboration with Ernst Fischer & Helen Spackman with Cat Monstersmith & Emmet Ward. Produced for Act 02, curated by Oliver Frost at the 291 Gallery, London
Porca Miseria solo, durational performance commissioned by Duckie for Gay Shame at The Coronet, London
Property of the Third Floor live art intervention devised by Insight Arts Trust for The Royal Opera House, London
2003
The Language of Flowers solo performance for Visions of Excess curated by Ron Athey & Vaginal Davis at Fierce! & for The Body Of curated by Cherry Smith at The Florence Trust, London
Central Location durational performance devised by Oreet Ashery for Wonderyears at NGBK Gallery, Berlin
Ex-Centris: The Museum of Fetishized Identities devised & directed by Guillermo Gomez-Pena for Live Culture at Tate Modern, London
2002
Miracle of the Rose & Valentine solo performances at The Centre of Attention, London
Gag solo performance for VAIN Festival of Live Art at FREVD, Oxford
Fallout collaboration with Ernst Fischer & Helen Spackman at Riverside Studios, London
The Bachelor Stripped Bare solo performance for the National Review of Live Art;
New Territories Festival, Glasgow & the University of North London
2001
Cruising (Le Vengeur) solo, durational intervention on HMS President, commissioned by the London International Festival of Theatre
The Bachelor Stripped Bare at East End Collaborations & Chats Palace, London
1999
Erosion Cafe Reason Company, Butoh performance at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
1998
Echo Cafe Reason Company, Butoh performance at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
The Forest that Sailed Away Cafe Reason Company, site-specific Butoh performance at Minster Lovell, commissioned by Coral Arts
The Icing on the Cake devised physical theatre, collaboration with Project Dark
Bona Dea Cafe Reason Company, Butoh performance at FREVD, Oxford
1996
The Drunkenness of Semar interdisciplinary arts event, directed by Heri Dono; a MoMA 2 project in association with inIVA at FREVD, Oxford
1992
The Government of the First & Thirteenth Chair re-staging of seminal live art event devised and directed by John Latham at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
selected group exhibitions & collections
2011
SPILL Tarot Exhibition Barbican Centre, London
Part of Barbican LATES: Spill Festival of Performance
2009
Looking Aside - Eventhood and the documentation of performance Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
2000
The Mag Collection Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
Sexmutant The Nunnery, London (curator/producer)
The Loss of an Exhibitionist’s Virginity The Foundry, London
Wings of Desire Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
1999
Outloud TAP Gallery, Sydney
Male Order (part 1) Café Sleaze, Sydney
Male Order (part 2) Mura Clay Gallery, Sydney
HOAX Hoxton Square, London
1994
Vice & Virtue Cupola Gallery, Sheffield
Body Politic Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
The Body as a Room Ruskin School, Oxford
Upturned Ark Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
1988
The Surreal Object Tate Gallery, Liverpool
film + video
2012
Homoccult and Other Esoterotica volumes 1 + 2 screened at S&S Project, Chicago
2011
Homoccult and Other Esoterotica volumes 1 + 2 screened at Mise au Jeu, Montreal, Canada
2010
Through a Glass Darkly screening of short films and performance documentation
at The Horse Hospital, London. Official Selection - London Underground Film Festival
Surreal Nightmares screening of The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth and Visions of Excess at SHUNT, London. Curated by Robin Spalding
Luminous Darkness screened at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Homoccult and Other Esoterotica screened at Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Homoccult and Other Esoterotica Screened at Xposed Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2009
Bestiary screened at Luminous Darkness curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt as part of the MIX Festival, New York, USA
The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth screened at Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
2008
Ordeal by Roses screened as part of Homoccult & other Esoterotica, curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt at Collective Unconscious, New York City, OUTFEST Platinum section, Los Angeles, YBCA, San Francisco, Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City and the Horse Hospital, London
2007
Ordeal by Roses screened at Homoccult & other Esoterotica, curated by Daniel McKernan & Richie Rennt as part of the MIX Festival, New York, USA and at Cinema Loblo, Lausanne, Switzerland in a video art programme curated by Léonore Easton & Boris Hoogeveen
Porca Miseria screened at The Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, USA in a video art programme curated by Robert Summers
In Advance of a Broken Arm screened at the 2nd Festival de Cinema Queer, Cinema l'Entrepot, Paris and the Corpus Queer programme of the Soiree de Cloture, part of the Festival Cinemarges, Bordeaux, France
2006
Monochrome & Porca Miseria screened at National Museum and Place of Art OFFicyna, Szczecin and Club Centrala, Swinoujscie, Poland as part of PI - 5 Performance and Intermedia Festival
2005
Bindu Point Video documentation from the first performance of Bindu Point screened at the ePerformance & Plug-ins Festival, School of Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales, Sydney and the INPORT Video Performance Festival, Tallinn, Estonia
2003
Ordeal by Roses Performance for video, screened at 291 Gallery London and Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Miracle of the Rose & Valentine
The Centre of Attention Video Magazine. Screened at LUX Open 2003
Royal College of Art & the X-travagant Performance Festival, Century Gallery, London
2001
Monochrome VHS 4’59”. Director.
Screened at The Foundry International Film Festival, London
1995
In Advance of a Broken Arm VHS 3’39”. Director.
Commissioned as part of OIV Season celebrating 100 years of Cinema.
also screened at OMSK (SNUB), Grayscale, London 2002
The Darkside Parlour Super 8 installation. Co-Director
Commissioned by the Animation Station
1992
Viral Procedures VHS 4’36”. Director.
Screened at OIV Mailart International 1993
Museum of the Moving Image, London 1994
Manchester Mardi Gras 1997
awards & sponsorship
2003
Arts Council of England Research & Development Award
for Bindu Point, collaboration with digital media artist Martin Franklin
2000
Millennium Fellowship Award for production of Sexmutant Website
Combined Arts London Award to Commission Roomours: A series of performance installations by Ernst Fischer for Sexmutant
1997
A4E Express funding through the Arts Council of England for Bona Dea
1994
Production Award from Oxford City Council for Body Politic
1992
Southern Arts Workshop Production Award for post-production on
Viral Procedures
First Prize: The Body as a Room, Ruskin School, University of Oxford
publications & broadcasts
2010
Visions of Excess reviewed by Joao Florencio and SPILL Performance Tarot photographed by Manuel Vason, Volume 23, in Dance Theatre Journal published by Laban
Lusus Naturae: Porca Miseria and the Spectacle of Shamelessness article by Lee Adams, images Rafael Perez-Evans, digital operator Monka Elkelv. Published in Stimulus Respond Journal, Circus edition. Edited by Jack Boulton
2009
Visions of Excess reviewed by Michele Occelli for www.kctv.co.uk
2008
NYC Go-Go Photographs from my performance of Bestiary at The Cock, NYC in November 2007 published in Slava Mogutin’s new monograph NYC Go-Go (Powehouse Books) with an accompanying essay by Bruce Benderson
2007
Encounters photographic/live art project with Manuel Vason & Empress Stah published by Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
2006
The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth reviewed by Kate Rando-Love iin Total Theatre Magazine, volume 18, issue 04 and In by Dominic Johnson in Western European Stages
2005
Bindu Point documentation published in Body, Space, Technology Journal, volume 5
Brunel University
2004
Live: Art, Performance and the Contemporary. Edited by Adrian Heathfield and produced in collaboration with Tate Publishing. (Photograph) courtesy of Hugo Glendinning
2002
The Bachelor Stripped Bare reviewed in Live Art Magazine
2001
Cruising Interview and performance for Taboo – 50 Years of Censorship
BBC2 Television
1999
Naked London by Greg Friedler. W.W Norton & Co. New York / London
1992
Government of the First & Thirteenth Chair Re-staging of Seminal work by John Latham to coincide with Latham’s retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, reviewed in Performance Research Magazine
Lectures
2010
Through a Glass Darkly - The Short Films of Lee Adams
Closing lecture for London Underground Film Festival at
The Horse Hospital, London
2002
Lipstick Traces
Lecture on performance practice at the University of North London
2001
Objects of Desire
Lecture on performance/visual arts practice at
Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London
2000
Performing Gender
Lecture co-presented with Del LaGrace Volcano at
Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London
