Unctuous Between Fingers, 2019
Harmonic Anatomies / Wet Mouths, 2019
Tentacular Thinking, 2018
A cap, like water, transparent, fluid yet with definite body, 2017-18
The Stones talk to her, 2017
Un Waive Edge Ground, 2015
On Frottage (Part I), 2015
Add Utter Rut, 2015
An Eye, An Arch, A Bridge, 2014
Frottage with IHF and JC, 2014
It Has Been Found Again, 2014
Practice, 2013
As Furniture, As Discipline, 2013
Word Chords, 2013
Ear Training/ Rhythm / Notation, 2013
Tuning Up, 2013
Last Orders..., 2012
Untitled (Portraits), 2011
Welcome Drinks, 2011
Toast, 2010
Harmonic Anatomies/Wet Mouths, 2019
Improvisation with Sarah Rose Bird, Rene McBrearty, Maggie Nicols, Heather Bonnie Reid and Danni Spooner
PROJECTIONS, Tyneside Cinema
This collective improvisation explored the potential of female sound in a posthuman context, leaky bodies and the interplay of bodily fluids, voice, wetness and fluidity. Using a range of lo-fi and hi-tech media, from sock puppets, slime, movement to hydrophones and amplified/digitally manipulated noise, Harmonic anatomies/wet mouths brought together 6 practitioners from a range of disciplines to explore the collectivity formed by womxn improvising together.
Drawing on personal experience and a range of texts from Anne Carson, Audre Lorde, Pauline Oliveros and Elizabeth Groys, the improvisation existed somewhere between a polyphonic performance, a lecture and a puppet play. During the performance, a large projection of medical hysteroscopy examinations and internal footage of female opera singers' vocal chords bathed the space in a gloopy glow.
You can read an interview about the performance with Adam Pugh, Director of Artists' Moving Image at Tyneside Cinema here.
This performance is part of an ongoing body of work and research entitled Harmonic Anatomies.