Timeline of Original Works

Original Art Works

I initiated, wrote and directed the following works as an independent artist or with my companies Fish & Game (2005-2013) or Reader Performance Group (2001-2005). To see the the work I’ve done for other people click here.

The Heart, April 2023

Large-scale interactive ‘Slow AI’ artwork permanently installed in Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston Street, Melbourne.

Science Gallery Melbourne, Centre for Contemplative Studies, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics. An intimate ceremony performed with an autonomous swarm of stone-robots.Part performance, part experiment, Sacrifice is the product of a radical collaboration between theatre, robotics, and archaeology specialists that invites you to interact with ancient and emerging technologies of contemplation combining emerging swarm robotics and artificial intelligence technologies with globally significant ancient standing stones.

Arts Centre Melbourne and University of Melbourne. Visitors journeyed through an audio-visual experience and had their ‘hologram’ captured and replayed in virtual reality. This is the first stage of a longer-term project which will gather thousands of 3D portraits and voices, via volumetric body scanning and interactive augmented reality technologies.

Exhuming Johnny, April 2019

Performance commissioned by City of Chicago for ‘Goat Island: We Discovered A Performance By Making It’ and Chicago Year of Theatre. 4 Performers. Premiere 19 April 2019 Sydney Yeats Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center. A creative response to Goat Island’s 1991 performance ‘Can’t Take Johnny To The Funeral’. Created in part through the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago.

Child of Now, 2018 - ongoing

Public Artwork of Scale in development: Speculative authorship of a radical future created through the contributions of 14,400 citizens of Melbourne. 3D video, Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, Blockchain, Performance, Futures, Participation. Created with Arts Centre Melbourne and University of Melbourne with feasibility funding from City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria.

Vanitas, Version 3.0, February 2018

Transmedia mixed-reality performance for smartphones, apps, and legacy telecommunication infrastructure. Melbourne General Cemetery and Google Play & App Store worldwide. Co-written and performed with Jason Maling.

Vanitas, Version 2.0, May 2017

Transmedia performance for smartphones, apps, and legacy telecommunication infrastructure. Melbourne General Cemetery & Arts House 20-21 May 2017. Co-written and performed with Jason Maling.

Vanitas, Version 1.0, March 2016

First iteration of transmedia performance for smartphones, apps, and legacy telecommunication infrastructure. Festival Of Live Art, Arts House, Melbourne, Australia, 2-11 March 2016. Co-written and performed with Jason Maling.

Dark Telephony, October 2015

SMS performance and walk. Performing Mobilities, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, 8-11 October 2015. Co-written with Jason Maling.

Works with Fish & Game, 2005 - 2013

Alma Mater, 2011 - 2013

‘One-to-one’ immersive film experienced on iPad. ‘The world’s first piece of iPad Theatre’ – The Independent (UK Newspaper) 6 performers. Previous cities: Edinburgh, Glasgow, London UK; Melbourne, Australia; Cologne, Germany. Co-directed with Ivor MacAskill.

Scotch Corner, 2011

Installation, menu and performances, Arches Restaurant, The Arches, Glasgow, UK, 17 January – 18 February 2011. Co-directed and performed with Ivor MacAskill.

Alma Mater @ Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School, 2010

25 minute film, shown on iPads as a ‘one-to-one’ tour around the archetypal Victorian school building. 13 actors, 8 musicians. Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School Museum. Commissioned by IETM, Glasgow, UK, November 2010. Now held within museum collection.

Performance for deconsecrated church, 7 actors, 7 musicians, Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2010. Co-created with Ivor MacAskill & company.

Trillions, 2009

Studio theatre performance, 6 actors plus 6 band members, Arches Live! Commission, The Arches, Glasgow, UK, 25 & 26 September 2009. Co-directed and performed with Ivor MacAskill.

PANFAG: you are you and I am us, 2008-2009

Performance for web, 4 performers,12 simultaneous webcast performances by Fish & Game in Glasgow, UK and PANTHER in Melbourne, Australia, 21 June 2008 – 21 June 2009. Co-directed and performed with Ivor MacAskill.

Fish & Game Speak Easy, 2008

9 minute performance for video, double screen installation, commissioned by Goat Island (Chicago), shown Nuffield Theatre Lancaster, UK, March 2008. Co-directed and performed with Ivor MacAskill.

Studio theatre performance, 6 performers. 2006 – 2008 Scottish Arts Council Touring Fund and Tramway SURGE! Commission. Otter Pie toured Scotland in October 2007 and November – December 2008 to Tramway (Glasgow, UK), Dràma Na h-Alba (Drumnadrochit, UK), Paisley Arts Centre (Paisley, UK), Brunton Theatre (Musselburgh, UK) Eden Court (Inverness, UK), Carnegie Hall Studio (Dunfermline, UK), The Lemon Tree (Aberdeen, UK), Tullynessle & Forbes Village Hall, Wyness Hall (Inverurie, UK), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh, UK).

Works with Reader, 2001- 2005

Can't you hear me? It's dark in here. Where have you gone anyway? Weathering the storms of human relations : a symposium, 2005

7 hour durational gallery performance, 7 performers, commissioned for Do Not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 23 April 2005.

Strangers and Intimacy, 2004-2005

Book project, gallery installation, gallery performance and studio performance, 7 performers. Part 1: International Writing Project, September – December 2004. Part 2: Performance Installation, West Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 27 Jan – 5 Feb 2005. Part 3: Studio Performance, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK, 9-10 March 2005.

Songs from the Burning Bed: Cock of the Walk, 2004

Audio tours (4 x CD), gallery installation, studio theatre performance, 5 performers, CCA, Glasgow, UK, November 2004.

Songs from the Burning Bed: Selected Songs, 2004

Studio theatre performance (cabaret seating), 4 performers, CCA, Glasgow, August 2004.

Songs from the Burning Bed: Song One – FIREMASTER, 2004

Gallery performance, cabaret performance, 3 performers, SiLENCiO, Edinburgh, UK and Market Gallery, Glasgow, UK, May 2004.

Warm Welcome Cold Climate, 2003

Studio theatre performance (cabaret seating), 5 performers (3 on telephone from London, Berlin and Toronto), CCA, Glasgow, UK, November 2003.

Base Camp II, 2003

Site-specific performance and audio tour, 3 performers, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Garden), Edinburgh, UK, October 2003.

Dumb Bunny, 2003

Studio theatre performance, 4 performers, A Tramway Dark Lights Commission, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, October 2003.

Base Camp, 2003

Site-specific performance and audio tour, 2 performers, EmergeD @ Brunswick Youth Hostel, Edinburgh, UK, August 2003.

A meeting to decide the nature of a new planet and its contents, 2003

7 hour durational performance, 4 performers, Mono Café, Glasgow, UK, 8 July 2003.

Special Relationship, 2002

Site-specific performance and audio tour, 5 performers (1 on telephone from Dorset coast), for EmergeD @ SYHA Youth Hostel, Glasgow, UK, November 2002.

Studio theatre performance, 5 performers, Boiler House Brunel University (London, UK), Dartington Arts (Totnes, UK), The Arches (Glasgow, UK), October – November 2002.

Mr Pig says 'Outwith the old', 2002

Durational gallery performance, 5 performers, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, 25 June 2002.

So Long, 2001

Studio theatre performance, 5 performers, Dartington Arts (Totnes, UK), Boiler House Brunel University (London, UK), Chapter Arts (Cardiff, UK), Wickham Theatre (Bristol, UK), June – September 2001.