graphic notation

infinite coastline. 2010.

These drawings are a record of two different listening instances of a live unedited sound improvisation by Niklas Zimmer and James Webb. They are an attempt to construct a vocabulary to make sense of the performance, as one does when listening actively, deducing musical patterns of rhythm, tone and counterpoint. The visual language of the work draws on graphic notation systems for music, haptic poetry, as well as digital data mapping and the complex visualisation of networked systems.

Collateral, Fried Contemporary, Pretoria. 18 March - 18 April 2010.

artist's book

talking to the tree outside my window while I sleep. 2008.

This book emerges from the silence of sleep and the haptic. Luminous and transparent, it is a fragmentary collection of 'other' bodies, layers and modalities of human experience which seek to rediscover a biocentric position in a human-centred world.

Print '08 : Myth Memory and the Archive. August / September 2008. Bell-Roberts Gallery. Cape Town. SASOL New Signatures 2009, Pretoria.

plant leaf engravings

nothing with skin is blind. 2008.

Plant, human or animal, our biological processes bear certain similarities.  It is these similarities that draw into question the boundaries between different forms of sentient life and where exactly consciousness begins.  

nothing with skin is blind. Gordart Gallery, April / May 2008. Johannesburg. SASOL New Signatures Art Awards 2008, Pretoria Art Museum. Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees, Oudtshoorn. Intervention, UNISA Gallery, September / October 2008. Pretoria. Dystopia, May 2009 - Jan 2010, UNISA Gallery, Pretoria. Museum Africa, Johannesburg. Oliewnhuis Art Museum, Mangaung. Jan Colle Galerij, Ghent, Belgium. Collections: SASOL Art Collection, UNISA Permanent Collection, Nirox Foundation Collection.

experimental film

cull ' tivate. 2008.

Our bodily processes are aligned to the coming and going of the sun, to subtle rhythms which depend entirely on the time of day. In ecological terms, this is a language, in buddhist terms an unconscious rhythm of silence and sound that runs through every living thing. The only place to find it is deep in the body.

Gordart Gallery, April 2008. Johannesburg. ABSA l'Atelier Art Awards 2008, ABSA Gallery. Johannesburg.

experimental film

alpha. 2007.

If you repeatedly forgot every person you knew, and searched for ciphers that might remain, you might in your surrender discover the approach of some imaginary person, half sensed, half-glimpsed by intuition.

ABSA l'Atelier Awards 2007, Johannesburg. 6th flEXiff (first and last Experimental international film festival), 2008, Sydney. 11th annual Antimatter Underground Film Festival, 2008, Victoria, Canada.  INVIDEO XVIII Edition, 2008, Milan. VIDEOFORMES 2009, Clermont-Ferrand, France. 24 Hours Nuremberg Filmfestival 2008, Germany. 21st Annual Dallas Video Festival, Angelika Film Center, Dallas. Cologne Online Film Festival IV, Museum of Contemporary Art, Maracaibo/Venezuela.

urban video poetry project

The City Breath Festival of Video Poetry and Performance. 2009-2010.

These short video 'breaths' or 'gasps' seek to interrogate the official understandings of South African cities given to us in television, film and other mass media. Over an hour of video poems, screen dances and experimental films of 4 minutes each from around South Africa will screen in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Grahamstown.

Main Film Programme Selection, National Arts Festival 2010. A special selection of video poems first premiered at the Badilisha Poetry Xchange in May 2009. Cape Town.

video installation, photography

the secure project. 2003 - 2005.

A dialogue with white suburban identity in South Africa.