London Lens is an augmented reality journey through time that peels back the shining surface of London's Square Mile to reveal the colonial origins of the global financial system.

LondonLens turns the winding streets of the City of London into a living repository of history. Using Niantic's ARDK 3.0 technology harnesses the unique storytelling environment of London's Square Mile to reveal the colonial origins of the global financial system and its surprising fragility today. Concluding at the London Stock Exchange, LondonLens reveals how this hidden past structures our world. Interactive augmented reality elements are used to make visible the invisble operation of financial markets at their real-world location.

Shared Roots: Wisdom of the Stones

In SHARED ROOTS: Wisdom of the Stones the player helps a young woman lay down roots in a new land. Stranded at a six-thousand-year-old stone circle in the English Midlands, our heroine must learn to tune into the wisdom of her ancestors overcome the challenges that face her. To access this wisdom, she must solve a series of puzzles. Through playful interactions the player discovers the character's struggle to put her past behind her, lay down roots, and build a life. SHARED ROOTS: Wisdom of the Stones is a 2.5D isometric puzzle game with bespoke score, based on the music of the region.

Corresponding With Ghosts
Corresponding With Ghosts

Generational battlegrounds. Class war. High ideals, dirty money, and never enough of the latter. From the birth of mechanical reproduction in 1457 to the death of the gold standard in 1973, the Poetry of Power is an experiment in staging modernity. Performed by Anne Tismer and Paula Kober with music by Sir Henry. Written and directed by Sam Williams. Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin, 2018.

UNMASKED
UNMASKED

“If we are to remember, we must take things down. Record." Can truth be recorded? An archivist investigates. Women, contemporary and ancient, prisoners, mystics and storytellers arrive to testify? But are they telling the truth? Or do their stories represent another type of myth? Who is recording? And why? UNMASKED uses cultural and historical crosscurrents of magic and myth, history and violence to disclose something of contemporary experience through Finnish national epic, The Kalevala. MORE.

A PUBLIC EXHIBITION
A PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Performed at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2013

Drawing on encounter, verbatim and found material, philosophy, and myth, this performance analyses the mediatized relationships between human bodies online and in performance, and between women’s bodies and commodity exchange.

The performer executes three composite characters - the ferryman/janitor, Aletheia/the mediator, and the camera/girl. Video feeds of audience and performer are projected onto the middle of three screens throughout the performance. Each screen is 'home' to one of the characters and their belongings, cast off during the performance.

ORIGIN: A PERFORMANCE FOR TWO BODIES
ORIGIN: A PERFORMANCE FOR TWO BODIES

ORIGIN is based on ancient rituals of encircling objects and bodies with cord, electromagnetism, and Japanese bondage. It considers how performance can create a ‘ritual field’, like an electromagnet amplifying a magnetic field using electric current. It inhabits a tension between spiritual and political realities, questioning what it is to be an individual. What might it mean to testify experience differently? What might be achieved by surrendering our 'selves'? Performed at BuildingBloqs (London, 2013)

The Scourging (Die Auspeitschung)
The Scourging (Die Auspeitschung)

Pavillion, Volksbühne, Berlin (2010)

Die Auspeitschung was a performance installation commissioned for the Volksbühne Pavillion at the memorial for Christoph Schlingensief.

“Just as meaning and sorrow are manifested in different eras as different feelings every person must encounter in their own way, so too are punishment, mourning and salvation. Visitors from the future can cut themselves into the video, and so travel back in time to take part.”

 London Lens is an augmented reality journey through time that peels back the shining surface of London's Square Mile to reveal the colonial origins of the global financial system.  LondonLens turns the winding streets of the City of London into a li
Shared Roots: Wisdom of the Stones
Corresponding With Ghosts
Global System Failure: A Boardgame
UNMASKED
A PUBLIC EXHIBITION
ORIGIN: A PERFORMANCE FOR TWO BODIES
The Scourging (Die Auspeitschung)

London Lens is an augmented reality journey through time that peels back the shining surface of London's Square Mile to reveal the colonial origins of the global financial system.

LondonLens turns the winding streets of the City of London into a living repository of history. Using Niantic's ARDK 3.0 technology harnesses the unique storytelling environment of London's Square Mile to reveal the colonial origins of the global financial system and its surprising fragility today. Concluding at the London Stock Exchange, LondonLens reveals how this hidden past structures our world. Interactive augmented reality elements are used to make visible the invisble operation of financial markets at their real-world location.

Shared Roots: Wisdom of the Stones

In SHARED ROOTS: Wisdom of the Stones the player helps a young woman lay down roots in a new land. Stranded at a six-thousand-year-old stone circle in the English Midlands, our heroine must learn to tune into the wisdom of her ancestors overcome the challenges that face her. To access this wisdom, she must solve a series of puzzles. Through playful interactions the player discovers the character's struggle to put her past behind her, lay down roots, and build a life. SHARED ROOTS: Wisdom of the Stones is a 2.5D isometric puzzle game with bespoke score, based on the music of the region.

Corresponding With Ghosts

Generational battlegrounds. Class war. High ideals, dirty money, and never enough of the latter. From the birth of mechanical reproduction in 1457 to the death of the gold standard in 1973, the Poetry of Power is an experiment in staging modernity. Performed by Anne Tismer and Paula Kober with music by Sir Henry. Written and directed by Sam Williams. Roter Salon, Volksbühne, Berlin, 2018.

UNMASKED

“If we are to remember, we must take things down. Record." Can truth be recorded? An archivist investigates. Women, contemporary and ancient, prisoners, mystics and storytellers arrive to testify? But are they telling the truth? Or do their stories represent another type of myth? Who is recording? And why? UNMASKED uses cultural and historical crosscurrents of magic and myth, history and violence to disclose something of contemporary experience through Finnish national epic, The Kalevala. MORE.

A PUBLIC EXHIBITION

Performed at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2013

Drawing on encounter, verbatim and found material, philosophy, and myth, this performance analyses the mediatized relationships between human bodies online and in performance, and between women’s bodies and commodity exchange.

The performer executes three composite characters - the ferryman/janitor, Aletheia/the mediator, and the camera/girl. Video feeds of audience and performer are projected onto the middle of three screens throughout the performance. Each screen is 'home' to one of the characters and their belongings, cast off during the performance.

ORIGIN: A PERFORMANCE FOR TWO BODIES

ORIGIN is based on ancient rituals of encircling objects and bodies with cord, electromagnetism, and Japanese bondage. It considers how performance can create a ‘ritual field’, like an electromagnet amplifying a magnetic field using electric current. It inhabits a tension between spiritual and political realities, questioning what it is to be an individual. What might it mean to testify experience differently? What might be achieved by surrendering our 'selves'? Performed at BuildingBloqs (London, 2013)

The Scourging (Die Auspeitschung)

Pavillion, Volksbühne, Berlin (2010)

Die Auspeitschung was a performance installation commissioned for the Volksbühne Pavillion at the memorial for Christoph Schlingensief.

“Just as meaning and sorrow are manifested in different eras as different feelings every person must encounter in their own way, so too are punishment, mourning and salvation. Visitors from the future can cut themselves into the video, and so travel back in time to take part.”

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