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 […]
The Returning Tide
The Returning Tide “One million known species. The most familiar of these, one of the world’s largest cities.” The Returning Tide is a collage series and poetry sequence that charts a constantly shifting city, just over the horizon. Made up of 110 framed playing card sized collages, the series explores the implicitly divinatory nature of […]
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 […]
Tamagotchi Seance #2
Tamagotchi Seance #2 Reach back through that path of hyperlinks and your map of unclosed tabs. Find your old companion, long since dead, and ask what the world looks like from the beyond. Tamagotchi Seance #2 is a love letter to, and a eulogy for, your long gone, digital pets. Part glitch poetic, part occult […]
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, […]
Tamagotchi and Death Micro Talk
Tamagotchis and Death: Micro Talk In January 2023, Nick was invited to the Arcadia games festival and conference in Dundee, Scotland. As part of this they gave a microtalk on Tamagotchis and how death is used in the digital pet’s life cycle. This five minute talk led to a full length presentation that Nick has […]
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, […]