Made by Graeme Miller for the BBC Radio 3 series Between the Ears this 30 minute radio essay examines the passing lore and language of the landline, the mythical geogrpahy and materiality of the network and the phone’s entry into domestic culture and art in the 20th century.
It was first broadcast in April 2017 and is a Cast Iron Radio production
Moth Theatreis a small-scale freestanding plywood theatre fitted with a video feedback system and ultra-violet lighting. Standing in a pool of its own radiance, it is theatre for moths by moths.
Insects are drawn to the miniature cinema where their image is filmed and fed back to the same screen, generating pattern and unwitting choreography. Moth Theatre plays with the nature of spectacle across the species divide. Drawn by the same light and image as the insects, the human observer is able to eavesdrop on this evolving and autonomous performance.
Moth Theatre was commissioned for the Latitude Festival 2010 in Suffolk, UK and was the first winner of the Latitude Contemporary Art Award. It was show also at Serralves em Festa, Porto.
VIDEO MOTH THEATRE LATITUDE 2011
Bassline is a ‘city-specific’ large-scale sound and video installation revealing the transit of a line of individual walkers as they follow a double-bass player carrying their instrument through the city. The images taken by body-worn cameras captured at steady intervals are projected on translucent screens in a linear subterranean space. They reveal the city in time showing both different locations in the same moment as well as showing the same location at different times.
The line of screens is accompanied by a solo bassline and the voices of the walkers who have recorded their passing impressions. Bassline is a formal exposition of the city as a physical space haunted by and co-composed, moment by moment, by the bodily memory of its diverse inhabitants.
It was installed in Vienna in the U-Bahn in a service tunnel between two stations in Vienna Festwochen, 2004 and later in Car Park 5 of the Barbican Centre in London, 2009
It’s like a ghost train whose carriages are made of the flickering images of lost streets and whose passengers are disembodied voices… wonderfully impressionistic, eerie and moving
Time Out London
Bassline captures the transience of city life and a sense of ghostly, layered history
The Independent
Bassline: London was produced by Artsadmin, co-commissioned by barbicanbite09 and supported by Arts Council England.
VIDEO BASSLINE LONDON
Counterpointer is a score for live performance, recorded video and live music commissioned in response to Situationist International and the legacy of Guy Debord. It was performed live in Paris and Glasgow 2017 with citizens of the cities who made spontaneous responses to unplanned locations using handbells. The live space, the city outside it and the pre-recorded videos assemble into an unrepeatable concert of gesture and sound.
Commissioned for Reviewing Spectacle by the University of Kent and presented at How to Drift, CCA Glasgow (2017) and Théâtre de l’Échangeur, Bagnolet (2017)
WILD CAR is a 75minute film shot in the winter of 2019 from an improvised rail vehicle, the Wild Car. The footage, captured on iPhone 7, follows narrow-gauge railway tracks across Europe from the rail-side houses of Kent in England to the north of Denmark and to the south of Sardinia (via Poland) and joins it together in a single mesmeric journey. The viewer is taken across what seems to be an impossibly empty and almost imaginary landscape. This is Europe in bardo – suspended in its own atmospheres. It is a trauerarbeit, a work of mourning made in the year of Brexit, that both laments and celebrates the scale and weight of Europe in the detail of its small geographies.
WILD CAR was commissioned by Creative Folkestone and Sardegna Film Foundation and supported by Arts Council England. Screenings include GROUNDED Film Festival (2022), Fotofestival Łódź (2022), Creative Folkestone (2020).
VIDEO EXCERPT WILD CAR
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