Now Play This
Now Play This Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design at Somerset House, showcasing interactive and playful work as part of the London Games Festival. Initially three days, and expanding to nine in 2019, Now Play This runs every spring across Somerset House’s New Wing, River Terrace and Courtyard. Now Play This […]
Playing Poetry
Playing Poetry In February 2023 Nick founded Playing Poetry, an organisation that champions playful and interactive literature, through exhibitions, workshops and tailored events. The goal is to present a platform for game-based writing and provide an inclusive network for writers and game-makers. Playing Poetry has emerged from many years in poetry publishing, producing live literature, […]
The Grannies
The Grannies “ the glitchy event horizon of Rockstar’s virtual-western epic” – The Guardian A documentary short film. A group of players venture beyond the boundaries of the videogame Red Dead Online (Rockstar Games, 2018). Peeking behind the curtain of the game’s virtual world they discover a captivating and ethereal space that reveals the humanity […]
Interview for the San Clemente podcast
For the launch of Poetry Games, I was invited to talk to Grace Shackleton about curating the exhibition and championing interactive writing for San Clemente Magazine’s podcast. Listen to the episode below. Somehow the conversation led to discussing watching Hamlet in real time, making The Queue: The Show and petting the dog in games! Turns out […]
Low Carbon Chinatown
Low Carbon Chinatown Low Carbon Chinatown is an environmental initiative that combines food, data science and community participation to explore different ways that we can all help respond to the Climate Crisis. Led by artist Ling Tan, East and South East Asian community members were invited to develop a series of low carbon dishes developed […]
Crip Casino
Crip Casino Continuing their ongoing collaboration, Nick worked with Abi Palmer, producing the performance installation work Crip Casino. Initially inviting Abi to create a new commissioned poetry prescription fruit machine for Now Play This 2019 (Somerset House), the partnership continued with exhibitions at Wellcome Collection and Collective Edinburgh. Crip Casino is an interactive installation exploring […]
Limited (in)vulnerability
Limited (in)vulnerability Limited (In)vulnerability is a project to explore (in)vulnerability with young people through the medium of video games. Made by a young collective of 12 makers aged 16-21 in Greater Manchester and Lancaster/Morecambe, the games are a short anthology exploring the theme of (in)vulnerability. Limited (in)vulnerability project explores why games so often reward players for […]
Cabin Fever
Cabin Fever In the Spring of 2020 Nick co-produced the Cabin Fever digital lab as part of Exit Productions. An online R&D project, Cabin Fever was designed to bring together artists from across the UK and Europe, to explore new ways of collaborating remotely and asychronously. As the world lost its physical performance, artists had […]
Quimera
Quimera Dance meets circus in QUIMERA, a moving and darkly funny performance inspired by Cervantes’ D. Quixote. Quimera is a retiree and she wants to change the world, emerging from her tiny room into a fantastical landscape that inadvertently leads her to becoming a hero. Created by Nua Dance and Neus Gil Cortes. Nick worked […]
Volumes of Text
Volumes of Text “At certain times, very dry times, landmarks can reappear on the reservoir banks.” Volumes of Text is a performative reading object, and a collection about and through redundant technologies, made as part of an exhibition of alternative publishing-based practices, curated by Ladies of the Press*. The collection brings together thirteen writers each giving […]