Unconference: We All Go Together
Unconference Unconference: We All Go Together AVACA Barham Park Studios, HA0 2HB Saturday 29th March ~ 11am-4pm Free – Sign up As part of Return To Dreamphone, you are cordially invited to join a branching conversation exploring collective action, community forming and play. This is a space to share ideas – practical and fantastical […]
Unconference: We All Go Together
We All Go Together Unconference: We All Go TogetherAVACA Barham Park Studios, HA0 2HBSaturday 29th March ~ 11am-4pmFree – Sign up As part of Return To Dreamphone, you are cordially invited to join a branching conversation exploring collective action, community forming and play. This is a space to share ideas – practical and fantastical – […]
Return to Dreamphone
Return to Dreamphone There’s a place we’re all trying to reach. Just outside of the digital day-to-day, or just past the physical horizon. There’s a church spire – or is it a radio tower? – marking the way against the sky. Each story we tell, each map we make, each meal shared, gets us a […]
Kaiju Ecopoetics and Tamagotchi Seance at GGDC
Kaiju Ecopoetics and Tamagotchi Seance at Glasgow Indie Game Fest I was invited to present my overhead projector poem game, Kaiju Ecopoetics, and a couple of parts of my Tamagotchi Seance series as part of the amazing Glasgow Independent Game Festival. (26/07/24) Tamagotchi Seance was mentioned in this article about GIGF in the Guardian. – […]
Kaiju Ecopoetics
Kaiju Ecopoetics Kaiju Poetics is part poetry sequence, part board game, part old-school presentation. A three chapter poetic performance inviting the audience to create a world as it unfolds. Participants take part in the map-making of a place over hundreds of years. Using the symbolism of Kaiju, giant monsters like Godzilla, to present an unstoppable […]
Tamagotchi and Death in the Internet Age
Tamagotchis and Death in the Internet Age “Owners of a tamagotchi are affectionately dubbed caretakers, as though, while you might own the plastic housing, you are just looking after the creature inside, until it goes on to its next place… and that next place is death.” Originally devised as a micro-talk for Arcadia (Dundee, 2023) Tamagotchis […]
Cut & Stick Neighbourhoods
Cut & Stick Neighbourhoods “Welcome esteemed guests to this, the planning meeting for our newly founded neighbourhood! You are the planning committee for your neighbourhood, and before you is a map of the area.” Cut & Stick Neighbourhoods is a city-building/place-making game and a cut-up poetry and collage workshop. Through a series of playful prompts, […]
Walk Cycles Water Cycles
Walk Cycles / Water Cycles “REC1: For the next few moments you will be able to witness a moment from another time, from the recent past. Your walking partner is making the shift, but you will be the observer.” Walk Cycles / Water Cycles is an attempt to draw out and highlight the interpersonal, communal […]
Ebbing
Ebbing “When certain conditions (p12) present themselves (p18), forgotten things can be revealed. Geological (p26), political, technological – human. The final condition for this particular situation, is you.” Ebbing: A Primer for Becoming a Fluid Body is a historical walking performance for one, a game manual, a poetry sequence and a speculative fiction. Using light roleplay […]
European Poetry Festival 2023
European Poetry Festival “I consider how my father came over stood in my bedroom as if lost a corkscrew swinging on his thumb like a pendulum in a wall clock.” Nick was invited to take part in the European Poetry Festival 2023 as part of the Latvian Poetry Celebration. Collaborating with Latvian poet Ivars Šteinbergs, […]