SCENARIOS One (At the End of the Loop)
∞ / Weather system, Models, Performance / 2025 —
Through deconstructed loops and absurd juxtapositions, this performance series challenges the colonial impulse to categorise, duplicate and simulate the world.
The Mind is a Group Muscle
32’ / Super 16mm Film, 100 Drawings / 2025
Ten men explore their relationships to masculinity and mental health through body-based therapies, including Rebirthing Breathwork and Emotional Freedom Tapping.
Rehearsing School
1 day / Performance / 2026 / w. Students at St. Peters
A group of Year 7 and 8 students imagine, debate and play out an alternative day of lessons, food and interventions across their school.
The Fair
41’ / Live Video Essay, Interactive Map / 2024 —
A live video essay exploring the interpersonal and geopolitical experience of navigating the world’s largest simulation fair for defense.
Glossolalia
52’ / Video / 2018
On a single stage, scenes from a Method Acting class, a ‘Standard English’ accent course for workers and children learning phonics unfold side by side.
A Tale of Petrochemicals
14’ / Video, Live Puppet Show / 2021
A puppet show about the life of the puppeteer Vittorio Zanella’s father and his work in a petrochemical plant, retelling an all-too-common story of globalisation and toxicity.
Aqua-Drama
21’ / 3-Channel Video / 2023 / w. Ifor Duncan
As model oceans are built to simulate climate change, an opera singer rehearses songs from 19th-century imperialist naval spectacles known as Aqua-Dramas.
Inheritance
18’ / 2-Channel Video / 2023 / w. Maia Chao
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.
Frenulum
4’ / Video / 2020
An experimental opera in which children perform imaginary tongue surgery on a group member, supposedly to improve pronunciation of English speech sounds.
Performance in Schools
Performance / 2022 — 26 / w. Various students
A project introducing experimental performance art to young people, helping them to experience—not just talk about—art’s histories of absurdity and protest.
Educational Rhythms
28’ / Video, Archival Display, Live Essay / 2019
An installation juxtaposing archival footage from East German socialist opera schools for children with a newly staged storytelling class for entrepreneurs.
Performing Hysteria
14’ / 3-Channel Video / 2016 / w. Angelica Bollettinari
Three actors perform a scripted account of the different emotional and bodily techniques they use to induce a state of hysteria.
Group Dynamics
2 days / Performance / 2019
An immersive performance in which actors inhabited characters and hierarchies over two days, continually forming and unravelling the resulting group dynamics.
Gallese’s Experiment
25’ / Video / 2016 / w. Faraz Anoushahpour & Laurie Robins
A technological experiment involving the neuroscientist Vittorio Gallese, twelve actors and a temporary film school unfolds over four days at Fondazione Prada.
Bloom
8’ / Super 8 Film / 2023
Using mirrors, flora and fauna are made simultaneously visible on either side of the borders of US national parks and their neighbouring military test sites.
A Public Rehearsal
3h / Live Performance / 2017
The opening of Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor is rehearsed in public, foregrounding the orchestra’s social dynamics as the music’s anticipated climax is never reached.
A Public Hearing
Installation, Performance / 2016 / w. MA Research Architecture
A collaborative project using legal workshops and a choral rehearsal to question public hearings as a flawed model of participation in urban regeneration.
Early works →
Perpetual Leisure
∞ / Video Collage / 2013
A series of video collages cutting and recombining found footage, images and sound into infinitely looping scenes of Western leisure.
D.R.O.F.
3’ / Video, Installation / 2013
A video installation imagining a fictional artist collective that claims direct action is the only moral creative response to our contemporary world.