[image description: head and shoulders shot, a silvery figure looms out of a bright blue background. they look curious and their large shiny hands are in the foreground. their head is surrounded by a blurry white shape.] image credit: Fani Parali The Wingspan Measurers video still.

image credit: Fani Parali The Wingspan Measurers video still

 
 
 

Lipsync and physical performance for fine artist Fani Parali. The Creatures, Chalton Gallery 2018; The Wingspan Measurers RA Schools 2017; The Angels, video 2017; Let Them In RA Schools 2016.

[image description: a person stands on stage, they have silver slicked back hair and silver / white bodypaint. they are illuminated from the front with an oval shaped yellow glow which casts a larger shadow mirroring their body shape on the screen behind them. they are holding a video game controller and concentrating on a laptop screen stage right.]

Still from documentation video, my own

 
 
 

Performance live playing video game Panoramical for Beta Public at V&A Lates, Victoria & Albert Museum, London 2017.

performance in a small gallery. projection on a wall shows a blue drop of liquid running into a crater. the colours are yellow and pink. in silhouette a performer lies on the floor, audience stand around the edges.

Image credit: Manuel Vason

 
 
 

Live video/performance & residency with Rocio Boliver at Vigils: Sex, ]performance space[, Folkestone 2017.

performer in a pink light holding a phone filming themself. white person, bare chested, wearing boxer shorts with blue waistband

Image credit: Kim Wichera

 
 
 

Durational performance for Holly Timpener’s Epicenter Revolutions, Pandora Gallery Berlin 2023.

close up of skin texture with a shiny liquid layer on top, royal blue and pink

Video still: Freddie Wulf

 
 

Video to accompany Alicia Jane Turner’s composition ‘the night knows what you did’ for National Sawdust.

Performed by National Sawdust Ensemble and Constellation Chor, conducted by Raquel Klein, New York 2021.

Image credit: Kit Fever

 
 

Performance-installation with live sound and video for Submerge, Bristol 2017.

Technical collaborator: Paul Hanson.

Image of the MiMu gloves

 
 

Residency using performance practice to gather data for beta testing the new MiMu gloves: ‘The world’s most advanced wearable musical instrument, for expressive creation, composition and performance’.

A short drag performance, programming the gloves to control the speed of vocal samples based on gestures in 3D space.

Pervasive Media Studio / UWE Bristol, 2018.

a screenshot of Max MSP showing levels for mood, alertness, stress and a complicated system of boxes connected to other boxes with lines

Screenshot from Max MSP performance setup

 
 

Life/Time: Rhythmanalysis of the Working Day a performance/research project with Dr Frederick Harry Pitts and sound artist Yas Clarke, exploring the neglected embodiment of sedentary work.

Bristol, 2017-19 funded by University of Bristol Brigstow Institute: Seedcorn Commissions & performance at The Cube Cinema.

[image description: a pile of active femme bodies wrestling with a bright red light flashing behind. the whole image is a red tone. a sound desk with equipment and cables is visible behind. audience sit on the floor along the side of the room. the overall vibe is chaotic.] image credit: Femme Feral at Buzzcut 2017

Image credit: Femme Feral at Buzzcut 2017

 
 
 

Wrestling performance with feminist fight club Femme Feral. Various venues including VfD, London; Thorny at Arnolfini, Bristol and Buzzcut, Glasgow.

[image description: four white drag kings wearing suits are posing like a band in front of a brick wall. one holds drumsticks, two are looking into the camera and one is pointing with both hands in the air victoriously. it seems like these men think they are pretty great.] image credit: The Great White Males shot by Paul Samuel White.

Image credit: The Great White Males, photo by Paul Samuel White.

 
 
 

Performance for Rachael Clerke’s Cuncrete, a drag king punk gig about architecture and idealism, 2015-17. Including UK tour, Edinburgh Fringe run and Soho Theatre run.

Image credit: Paul Samuel White.

 
 
 

Projection-on-skin installation for Horseplay and various clubnights, UK 2014.

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