Colliding Lines launch a new, bi-monthly night of live art, sound and vision, presenting experimental collaborations and post-label projects from select performers. We begin with Reanimation; a live re-scoring of Soviet-era cartoons and surrealist animations by four different artists. Films: The Glass Harmonica, 1968. Rusalochka (The Little Mermaid), 1968. There Will Come Soft Rains (Ray […]
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To celebrate the launch of our experimental art shop we created a labyrinth of interactive storytelling entitled Tall Tales Lab(yrinth). Inside, the audience finds a maze of one-on-one interactions, micro-immersive poetry experiences, film screenings and insular, standalone interventions by some of our favourite artists. As they move deeper into the Labyrinth, the audience become the story; experiences and […]
Dancing in Code is an experimental performance exploring concealment, paranoia and distorted perception. Using dance, sound art and live film, performers pass coded messages across artforms, choreographing one another from the others’ blind spot. Using a pre-set series of rules, each party attempts to communicate with each other, whilst the others infiltrate, manipulate and distort […]
As a prelude to our EP Poetry & Piano, Nikki Marrone, Ups Suppa and Tim Knight met with Matt Widgery to improvise soundtracks to some of their spoken word performances. Filmed in 2016, the sessions formed the framework that led to the EP becoming a recording project. As is true with the studio sessions, the […]
A number of weeks ago art photographer Josh Murfitt joined us in St Paul’s Church as we filmed and broadcast our latest SHINDIG live session. Bringing together poets Nikki Marrone, Uppahar Subba, Tim Knight and pianist Matt Widgery, the focus of the afternoon was to improvise musical soundtracks to spoken word, streaming the process live […]
Developed by Abi Palmer, Alchemy is an interactive poetry experience for you to play at home. Based upon Robert Boyle’s challenge to classical Alchemy in 1661, the set invites you to experiment with different combinations of physical and poetic elements. What reactions will you discover? Each set includes four elemental poem cards, four chambers filled […]
Pleased to share with you the first 5 sessions from some of our favourite spoken word artists. Filmed over the course of one evening, these videos capture select poems from Tim Knight, Nikki Marrone and Uppahar ‘Ups’ Subba. Playlist Tim Knight ‘Saturn V’ 4:03 Tim Knight ‘Two Lessons’ 2:35 Uppahar Subba ‘Darjeeling’ 3:39 Nikki Marrone ‘Knowledge is Power’ […]
Shadowplay is a live literature experiment in sensory deprivation. Suspended in a dark auditorium, the audience are alone save for white words projected into the pitch black canvas. Around them a soundtrack emerges, scoring urgent scenes told in broken staccato sentences. It is a story about the power of language to make reality and, inevitably, undo it. […]
Anger originally shot Rabbit’s Moon in 1950 during a brief stay in Paris following the huge success (and ensuing controversy and backlash) of his breakthrough homoerotic short, Fireworks (1947), however, due to logistical and financial constraints it would not be until the early 1970s that he returned to retrieve his footage and finish the film. […]
Time Now For Ghosts is a minimalist performance & sound piece in three movements, written for one dancer and one musician. It is site-specific, utilizing the audience’s interaction with the space to form generative audio loops played back in real time. The environment this creates forms the stage upon which the performance plays out; the […]