Live Simulation 1 (At The End of a Loop_*
Recognisable loops break down and new ways of relating emerge, challenging colonial practices which categorise, replicate and simulate the world for purposes of control.
∞ / Weather System, Models, Performance / 2025 —
The Mind is a Group Muscle
Ten men explore their relationships to masculinity and mental health through body-based therapies, including Rebirthing Breathwork and Emotional Freedom Tapping.
32’ / Super 16mm Film, 100 Drawings / 2025
The Fair
A live documentary video essay exploring the interpersonal and geopolitical experience of navigating the world’s largest simulation fair for defence.
41’ / Live Video Essay, Interactive Map / 2024 —
Glossolalia
On a single stage, scenes from a Method Acting class, a ‘Standard English’ accent course for workers, children learning phonics and a contortionist training unfold side by side.
52’ / Video / 2018
A Tale of Petrochemicals
Puppets narrate the life of the puppeteer Vittorio Zanella’s father and his work in a petrochemical plant, uncovering an all-too-common story of globalisation and toxicity.
14’ / Video, Live Puppet Show / 2021
Aqua-Drama
As model oceans are built to simulate climate change scenarios, an opera singer rehearses songs from 19th-century imperialist naval spectacles known as Aqua-Dramas.
21’ / 3-Channel Video / 2023 / w. Ifor Duncan
Inheritance
Young people across Boston schools learn to debate issues they are inheriting from older generations, from climate change and race reparations to the housing crisis.
18’ / 2-Channel Video / 2023 / w. Maia Chao
Frenulum
An experimental opera in which children perform imaginary tongue surgery on a group member, supposedly to improve their pronunciation of English speech sounds.
4’ / Video / 2020
Performance in Schools
A project introducing experimental performance art to young people, helping them to experience—not just talk about—art’s histories of absurdity and protest.
Performance / 2022 — 26 / w. Various students
Educational Rhythms
An installation juxtaposing archival footage from East German socialist opera schools for children with a newly staged storytelling class for entrepreneurs.
28’ / Video, Archival Display, Live Essay / 2019
Performing Hysteria
Three actors perform a scripted account of the different emotional and bodily techniques they use to induce a state of hysteria.
14’ / 3-Channel Video / 2016 / w. Angelica Bollettinari
Group Dynamics
An immersive performance in which actors inhabited characters and hierarchies over two days, continually forming and unravelling the resulting group dynamics.
2 days / Performance / 2019
Gallese’s Experiment
A technological experiment involving neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, twelve actors and a temporary film school unfolds over four days at Fondazione Prada, Venice.
25’ / Video /2016
/ w. Faraz Anoushahpour & Laurie Robins
Bloom
Using mirrors in front of the lens, flora and fauna are made simultaneously visible on either side of the borders of US national parks and their neighbouring military test sites.
8’ / Super 8 Film / 2023
A Public Rehearsal
The first eight bars of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor are rehearsed in public, foregrounding the orchestra’s social dynamics as the music’s anticipated climax is never reached.
3h / Live Performance / 2017
A Public Hearing
A collaborative project using legal workshops and a choral rehearsal to question public hearings as a flawed model of participation in urban regeneration.
Installation, Performance / 2016 / w. MA Research Architecture
Early works →
Perpetual Leisure
A series of video collages cutting and recombining found footage, images and sound into infinitely looping scenes of Western leisure.
∞ / Video Collage / 2013
D.R.O.F.
A video installation imagining a fictional artist collective that claims violent direct action is the only moral creative response to our contemporary world.
3’ / Video, Installation / 2013