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.
Flashover, February 2025
Studio 1, Film and Television, VCA
A monumental multi-screen media artwork reimagining a devastating moment of terror and beauty from the Black Summer fires. More information >
Living Light Experiment, May 2024
Science Gallery, BioInspiration Seed Fund
A new encounter with ancient living light that is part performance, part experiment. More information >
The Encounter, February 2024
Centre for Contemplative Studies, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics.
An new intimate ceremony performed with an autonomous swarm of stone-robots. More information >
The Heart, April 2023
Large-scale interactive “Slow AI” artwork permanently installed in Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston Street, Melbourne. More information >
Sacrifice: Contemplating Time and Trust, November 2022
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. It invites interaction with ancient and emerging technologies of contemplation, combining swarm robotics and artificial intelligence with ancient standing stones. More information >
Child of Now, February 2022
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 project gathering thousands of 3D portraits and voices through volumetric scanning and interactive augmented reality. More information >
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.
Premiere: 19 April 2019 at Sydney Yeats Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center.
A creative response to Goat Island’s 1991 performance Can’t Take Johnny To The Funeral. Created through the Jackman Goldwasser Residency at Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago. More information >
Child of Now, 2018 – ongoing
A large-scale public artwork under development, involving contributions from 14,400 citizens of Melbourne. Incorporates 3D video, Artificial Intelligence, Mixed Reality, Blockchain, Performance, Futures, and Participation.
Created with Arts Centre Melbourne and University of Melbourne, funded by City of Melbourne and Creative Victoria. More information >
Vanitas, Version 3.0, February 2018
Transmedia mixed-reality performance for smartphones, apps, and telecommunication infrastructure.
Melbourne General Cemetery and Google Play & App Store.
Co-written and performed with Jason Maling. More information >
Vanitas, Version 2.0, May 2017
Transmedia performance for smartphones, apps, and legacy telecommunication infrastructure.
Performed at Melbourne General Cemetery & Arts House, May 2017.
Co-written and performed with Jason Maling. More information >
Vanitas, Version 1.0, March 2016
First iteration of the transmedia performance for smartphones, apps, and telecommunication infrastructure.
Performed during the Festival Of Live Art, Arts House, Melbourne, March 2016.
Co-written and performed with Jason Maling. More information >
Dark Telephony, October 2015
SMS performance and walk.
Performed at Performing Mobilities, RMIT, Melbourne, October 2015.
Co-written with Jason Maling. More information >
Works with Fish & Game (2005 – 2013)
Alma Mater, 2011 – 2013
Immersive film experienced on iPad.
Performed in cities including Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Melbourne, and Cologne.
Co-directed with Ivor MacAskill. More information >
Scotch Corner, 2011
Installation and performances at Arches Restaurant, Glasgow.
Co-directed and performed with Ivor MacAskill. More information >
Alma Mater @ Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School, 2010
A 25-minute film shown on iPads, providing a “one-to-one” tour of a Victorian school building.
Commissioned by IETM, Glasgow, UK. More information >
Two Trillion, 2010
Performance for a deconsecrated church with actors and musicians, presented at Forest Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Co-created with Ivor MacAskill & company. More information >
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. More information >
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. More information >
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. More information >
Otter Pie, 2006-2008
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). More information >
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. More information >
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. More information >
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. More information >
Songs from the Burning Bed: Selected Songs, 2004
Studio theatre performance (cabaret seating), 4 performers, CCA, Glasgow, August 2004. More information >
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. More information >
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. More information >
Base Camp II, 2003
Site-specific performance and audio tour, 3 performers, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop (Garden), Edinburgh, UK, October 2003. More information >
Dumb Bunny, 2003
Studio theatre performance, 4 performers, A Tramway Dark Lights Commission, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, October 2003. More information >
Base Camp, 2003
Site-specific performance and audio tour, 2 performers, EmergeD @ Brunswick Youth Hostel, Edinburgh, UK, August 2003. More information >
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. More information >
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. More information >
your hand on my skin and the Earth’s still turning, 2002
Studio theatre performance, 5 performers, Boiler House Brunel University (London, UK), Dartington Arts (Totnes, UK), The Arches (Glasgow, UK), October – November 2002. More information >
Mr Pig says ‘Outwith the old’, 2002
Durational gallery performance, 5 performers, Tramway, Glasgow, UK, 25 June 2002. More information >
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. More information >