New film made as 'Work in Self Isolation' April - May 2020. Title 'Short Improvised Studies':

                                    

Small and short submission to ' HEyeRMEarS ' Ear' project that was coordinated by Jozef Cseres for Kassik Centre for Intermedia Creativity (Slovakia):

Jennifer Pike (1920-2016) was a major artist whose practice traversed the disciplines of painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, photography, jewellery-making, poetry and performance. Although a fuller appreciation of the scale and range of her achievements has been recently enabled by the making of a film about her life and work by Holly Antrum (Catalogue, 2013) and the publication of two volumes of selected works by Veer books (The Conglomerization of Wot and Scrunch, both 2010), her work has still yet to be the subject of extended academic consideration. One aspect of Pike's practice which is of particular interest to my larger project of examining the relationships between poetry and movement (2011, 2012, 2013), is her dance and movement work which was often conducted in the context of collaborative performance with sound and visual poet Bob Cobbing and musicians such as Veryan Weston, Lol Coxhill and Hugh Metcalfe. This article introduces this aspect of Pike's practice and offers some theoretical framing from Dee Reynolds' work on economies of effort (2007) and Daniel Stern's work on vitality dynamics (2010) before analysing recordings of performances from 2002 and 2007. An earlier draft of this article was presented as a paper at 'Outside-in / Inside-out: A Festival of Outside and Subterranean Poetry' at the University of Glasgow, 5-8 October, 2016. Thank you Ellen Dillon for this conference report in JBIIP 9.1.

Part of a sequence of films with music by Ingrid Laubrock and Veryan Weston called 'Art & Life in Isolation'. It was kindly commissioned by Issue Project Room in New York. The film reflected the state of many artists in 2020 having to work apart in self-isolation due to the covid pandemic. Ingrid Laubrock and Veryan Weston have worked together but lived on separate continents – New York and London. It was a collaboration in isolation. Animations inspired by Max Ernst (the Illegal Practice of Astronomy).