Category Archives: Past Projects

In the Republic, Plato warned that abandonment to violent laughter might provoke a violent reaction. Freud’s work has since reminded us that jokes can precipitate transgressive, or forbidden thoughts and feelings that may represent social taboos, or personal anxieties. Today, … Continue reading →

RED PARADIGM for Eidos Foundation, Ukrane  GOGOL FEST 2009  Mystetskyi Arsenal, KIEV, Ukraine, Curator Adam Nankervis During the live performance, red sheets were torn into strips and then hand-sewn back together into a large banner. On the opening night, FI … Continue reading →

The Fifth Floor: Ideas Taking Space at the Tate Liverpool, a thought provoking although aesthetically pleasing installation that could be described as an audible tableau vivant for visitors to look at and listen to was presented. The space has been … Continue reading →

The GOLD series, which continues to this day, is one of FI’s most successful projects. The first incarnation of gold-x-change was commissioned by Beral Madra of BM Contemporary Art, Istanbul, during the 1997 Biennale.                                                                                                                                                                                                           EVERYTHING MUST GO  | CFCCA … Continue reading →

commissioned and funded by FACT off site projects, Liverpool This unique and highly innovative project pioneers new collaborative practice with elderly tenants in High Rise Tower blocks throughout Liverpool. In Sunday Matinee, a choreographed afternoon of heightened sensual experiences including … Continue reading →

A roundtable discussion with Sir Norman Rosenthal (curator/art historian), Alessio Antoniolli (Director, Gasworks & Triangle Network), Mark Mcgowen (performance artist) Claudia Wegener and Guy Brett (art critic/curator) on the exhibition, Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments at Tate Modern. Our key proposition … Continue reading →

Neighbours in Dialogue, Venice Agendas IV, 51st Venice Biennale, THE JANUS FACE OF VENICE Chair: William Furlong, Audio Arts, London and Mel Gooding TUNING -IN OP. 2 represents the last movement and concluding fugue of the work. It is a polyphonic … Continue reading →

The one-day event in the House gallery was part of a month-long series of shows and events called Yesvember organised by Mark McGowen, PaulKane and Chunky Arts  in November 2004.   Good Morning Camberwell unfolded as a one-day, super-local on-the-pavement … Continue reading →

SUPERMEN firstly written, secondly live performed in close collaboration with 24 Men at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Thirdly a film animation was produced: Supermen II. Supermen is about the most explosive material, our brain, a soft organ set aside … Continue reading →