Category Archives: Performance

MIDNIGHT Friday 22 January til NOON Saturday 23 January A special walk in support of The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow curated by Marina Abramovic and organised by Plymouth Arts Centre. In 1988 Abramovic and Ulay walked … Continue reading →

With walking artist Simon Persighetti (Wrights & Sites) and sound artist Tony Whitehead explore the edges of Plymouth Sound following signals, echoes, calls and songs blowing in the wind. Help collect an archive of sounds to shape into a programme … Continue reading →

Simon Persighetti and myself shared our city/forest explorations with fourteen keen adventurers yesterday. Personal highlights of a really fun day include: fourteen people buying one eccles cake in the bus station cafe to feed a pigeon; fourteen people standing in … Continue reading →

The Animal Gaze walk is now fully booked.

On 31 January 2009 artist Simon Persighetti and myself will be leading a couple of walks that explore the themes of the Animal Gaze exhibition. This large show considers the often paradoxical relationship between animals and humans. Full details of … Continue reading →

Nice review of our Kings Place performance here ” ‘Sound Walk’ was a collaboration between sound artists Tony Whitehead and Matthew Sansom, presented by the Society for the Promotion of New Music. Tony Whitehead had spent a day in and … Continue reading →

Its online at Bill Drummond’s The 17 website here

This text accompanied Mathew Sansom’s field recording based composition performed at King’s Place yesterday as part of a series of SPNM performances. One audience member described it as the “writing of a rural poet with culture shock”!

In a series of short simple texts accompanying a new work by composer Matthew Sansom, Tony will describe his personal impressions of the sounds of Kings Cross. These are based on a close listening to the area in a number … Continue reading →

My response to Score 6 of the 17 project here.