Short film, 2021
Lost in the countryside, Faith and Bianca meet a mysterious older woman who gives them some intriguing advice.
'The Lady and the Unicorn' is a live online performance created for the Redwood City Play Festival in July 2020. Inspired by the medieval tapestries of the same name, the performance explores the ways in which desire and memory work through the fabric of our lives, interweaving art history with a queer autobiography of the Lady in the tapestries. This iteration features two competitive yet romantically entangled academics who try to present their own versions of the tapestries’ history. The audience is invited to bring their own props (objects from around their home) for some participatory moments that happen during the performance. It takes inspiration from Marguerite Duras' 1978 film Les mains négatives, Rilke's writings, and of course the tapestries themselves.
The 2020 development process was supported by a Theatre Bay Area grant.
'The Lady and the Unicorn' is an ongoing project which began in 2017 at The Yard Theatre in London.
A Drop of Ambition is an offbeat women-led comedy short film about two flatmates who become embroiled in an essential oils multi-level marketing scheme. Post-production completed in August 2019.
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Just Like Real Life is a vivid and violent new script about memory, obsession, and Virtual Reality.
Just Like Real Life fuses live performance and virtual reality to explore our relationship with the increasingly familiar digital realm. Each audience member is given their own Virtual Reality headset before the show begins.
By Emma Attwood and Nick Finegan. Photography by Zbigniew Kotkiewicz.
Commissioned by Camden People’s Theatre as part of Sprint in March 2018, and then presented as a re-worked version at Latitude Festival in July 2018.
Just Like Real Life fuses live performance and virtual reality to explore our relationship with the increasingly familiar digital realm. Each audience member is given their own Virtual Reality headset before the show begins. These will function as their own personal portal into a virtual landscape where fantasy and desire feel all too real.
By Emma Attwood and Nick Finegan as Video Show.
With VR by Jack Churchill. Photography by Zbigniew Kotkiewicz.
A performance piece with original animations, inspired by the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries. Performed at The Yard Theatre in July 2017 as part of Live Drafts.
Written and directed by Emma Attwood.
Performed by Temi Wilkey, Deli Segal and Nick Finegan
Set design: Naomi Kuyck-Cohen with Cecile Tremolieres
Costume: Emma Lyth and Phoebe Chan
Animation: John O’Connor
Sound: Rhodri Karim
Lighting: Dan Saggars
Production Manager: Lucie Regan
Photographs by Ray Malone
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Performed at The Yard Theatre in May 2016 as part of NOW ‘16.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
Performed at The Rag Factory in November 2014.
Performed at The Rosemary Branch Theatre in April 2013.
Co-curated with Yates Norton:
MONOPOLES: AN EXHIBITION ABOUT ART AND PHYSICS at Ugly Duck, London (October 2016) with Oli Gould.
Friday 28 Oct, 6-8.30pm: Exhibition Opening – 7pm: ‘Magnetic Monopoles’, a talk by Professor Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College)
– 7.30pm: a short play by Ewen Maclachlan
Saturday 29 Oct, 12 noon-6pm
-2-3pm: ‘This Tremendous World of Interconnecting Hierarchies’, a talk by artist Geraldine Cox (artist in residence, Imperial College) on nature and physics
– 4-4:45pm: Theory and Experiment, a conversation with Yates Norton (art historian), Oliver Gould (physicist), Thomas Haworth (astrophysicist) and Santiago Cabrera Marquez (physicist)
Sunday 30 Oct, 12 noon-6pm
– 4-4.30pm: ‘What is a particle?’ Giulia Ferlito (physicist)
Featuring works by
Anna Moser
Burleigh Morton
Christopher Gonzalez-Crane
Ella Wearing
Emily Kloppenburg
Ewen Maclachlan
Iain Woods
Jocelyn Spaar
Karen Loader
Kieran Bruce
Laurie Lewis
Natalia Jaeger
Rose Pickles
Sophie Seita
Thomas Laprade & Aaron Lehman
And recorded talks by
Fiora Salis
Genevieve Marciniak
About the exhibition Space and time bend. Intuition falters. What do we really know? Monopoles is a weekend of exhibitions, talks and performances featuring cutting edge physics alongside award-winning art, film, poetry and music.
Monopoles brings the search for the magnetic monopole at the Large Hadron Collider (CERN) into a Bermondsey art space. The weekend will open with an evening of screenings, performance and a talk by Professor Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College, London), a leading authority on magnetic monopoles.
The monopole is a hypothetical particle with only one magnetic pole. If found, it would change how we think about space, time and the universe. In collaboration with physicists at Imperial College London, and co-curated by Yates Norton and Emma Stirling, Monopoles is a new cross-disciplinary exhibition that brings scientists and artists together to explore anti-intuitive ideas that test the boundaries of our knowledge.
ATMOSPHERES, Berlin & New York, Spring 2016
Exhibition: April 19 2016, Roof Books, New York
in conversation with Leonie Kubigsteltig, Lucy Harries, Dino Steinhof, Michel Kaden, Sümer Sayın, Gaby D’Annunzio, Chris Gylee, Emily Kloppenburg, Luke McMullan, Sophie Seita, Tom Laprade & Aaron Lehman, Anna Moser, Ella Wearing, and Julie Patton.
Atmospheres is a conversation series and creative research project.
The starting points are:
- Atmosphere is experienced in multi-sensory ways. It is difficult to describe even, or especially, when we sense it strongly: atmosphere is something which resists articulation.
- Atmosphere can be instrumentalised for specific political or economic ends.
- Atmosphere can be generated by altering and organising a space, often in quite subtle ways: for example re-arranging objects in ways which disrupt habitual interactions with them.
Each conversation has featured a discussion exploring the topic of atmosphere through works we have made and the ideas and/or materials that the participating artists have brought. After each conversation, we created another set of works in response to the ideas raised. We then brought these works to the next conversation. At the end of the series, we accumulated a number of objects and documentation relating to the discussions we have had. This exhibition is an archive of the creative research project, and features works by some of the collaborating artists.
The project centres on conversation as a way of thinking through this topic because we want to approach atmosphere from several points of view and forms of making. Conversations have their own atmosphere, which we have observed and used in our exploration of the theme. The works we have created are both documents of previous discussions, and act as supplements to the ongoing conversations.
Part 1: Berlin
Chris Gylee, Theatre Director
Dino Steinhof, Artist
Gaby D’Annunzio, Curator
Leonie Kubigsteltig, Theatre and Movement Director
Lucy Harries, Writer
Michel Kaden, Geographer
Sümer Sayın, Visual Artist
Part 2: New York
Emily Kloppenburg, Artist
Luke McMullan, Poet
Sophie Seita, Poet
Tom Laprade & Aaron Lehman, Artists
Anna Moser, Artist
Ella Wearing, Artist
Julie Patton, Poet
AGAINST NATURE (April 2015, St Pancras Clock Tower, London)
SAY RYAN (January 2015, John Hughes Arts Festival, Cambridge)
SET PIECES (June 2014, Dixon Place, New York)
THE CHAIR, THE TABLE (March-May 2014, One Of Us, New York)
I often perform in live art performances and artist performances, including Alexis Teplin’s ARCH: The Politics of Fragmentation at Whitechapel Gallery (2018) and Sophie Seita’s My Little Enlightenment Plays at SPACE (2019).
