A Patina of Antique Filth, October 2009 (with Elinor Brass)
A place-specific installation with a soundscape created in collaboration with Tim Dutton, as part of the Shunt Lounge, London Bridge. The work was inspired by the colourful history of the
"I had worn bad enough things before, but nothings at all like these; they were not merely dirty and shapeless, they had – how is one to express it? – a gracelessness, a patina of antique filth, quite different from mere shabbiness.”
George Orwell, Down and Out in
Ivory Towers, June 2009 (With Katja Hilevaara)
A brief performance installation at the Easton Community Centre, Bristol. Part of the sixth You and Your Work Festival. A dining table was slowly and deliberately laid with an ever-increasing array of cutlery to create a small-scale but epic landscape.
photos© Mel Shearsmith
Cassandra Float Can , February 2009 (Directed by Four-Second Decay)
| A one-off performance of Anne Carson's Cassandra Float Can in four voices, Roehampton University, London. Devised and directed by P.A. Skantze and Matthew Fink of Four-Second Decay. |  |  |
Meme 1, 2008 (with Elinor Brass)
A year-long web-based dialogue documenting the discovery and response to the new places in which we found ourselves after moves to opposite ends of London.
Opiate, November 2008 (with Katja Hilevaara)
A site-specific performance installation at the Resistance Gallery, London. Part of the fourth my site | in space, curated by Switch Performance Company. The gallery, underneath the railway arches in Bethnal Green and not far from where Jack the Ripper’s victims were discovered, is thought to have been the site of an opium den and later an air raid shelter. For the installation a track made from knives and nuts spelt out a rhythmic message in Morse code.
National Service/Esperanto, October 2008 (with Ernst Fisher, P.A. Skantze and Matthew Fink)
A performance installation at the
photos© Matthew Fink
Narcissus, June 2008 (in collaboration with Katja Hilevaara)
A performance installation with mirrors, torches and a hammer, involving the making and breaking of a series of images in response to the myth of Narcissus and Echo. Shunt Lounge, London.
photos© Elinor Brass
Hampstead Road, April 2008 (in collaboration with Elinor Brass)
An immersive installation inspired by the history of the site of the Camden People's Theatre. It involved five hundred found objects, suspended, whitened, and scattered across the space. Suspended, as if in water. Whitened, as if petrified over time, washed-out by age, by use, by neglect, by forgetting. Colourless litter, archaeological remains, a constellation of accumulated history. Sound by Tim Dutton.
'Hauntingly beautiful and calm ... visually arresting'. Andrea Ioannou, Arts Hub, 30 April, 2008 (Read full review)
photos © Emily Orley (http://www.orleyandbrass.com/hampstead.html)
Lusikka, October 2007 (in collaboration with Katja Hilevaara)
A performance installation at the Green Room, Manchester (part of the Emergency platform for live art) which involved a fleet of teaspoons making their way across the café bar, only to disappear minutes later. .
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Teippi, October 2007 (in collaboration with Katja Hilevaara)
A site-specific performance installation tracing puddles with electrical tape. Shunt Vaults, London.
photos© Juliette Humble
States of Ignorance, August 2007 (in collaboration with Elinor Brass)
Photographs of a small-scale site-specific installation exploring the history of the Old Truman Brewery,
photos© Emily Orley (http://www.orleyandbrass.com/execution.html)
Traces of Mr Shillibeer, June 2007 (in collaboration with Elinor Brass)
Photographs of a small-scale site-specific installation exploring the history of the Pleasance Theatre, London. Exhibited on site
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photos© Emily Orley (http://www.orleyandbrass.com/pleasance.html)
The Way to Be Rich, Jan 2007 (in collaboration with Elinor Brass)
Photographs of a small-scale site-specific installation exploring the history of the Mayfair Library, London. Exhibited on site.
photos© Emily Orley (http://www.orleyandbrass.com/rich.html)