I am an artist-academic-curator whose work falls within the territories of live art and interdisciplinary spatial practices.

I generate Practice-as-Research across a range of contexts, for example:
• Where to build the walls that protect us, ACE-funded, Kaleider commission (2013-14), reiterated for Compass Festival, Leeds (2016);
• 4 x 4 Screens, Live Art Development Agency commissioned DVD (2013);
• The Master Plan, Book Works/Situations co-publication, launched at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2012);
• SLarristokaupunki, ANTI Festival commission, Finland and Second Life (2009);
• Exeter A-Z, Year Of The Artist commissioned digital interventions aboard Exeter’s bus fleet (2000);
• 2^6, 5 days of live art inspired by John Cage’s diary, funded by ACE and hosted by Spacex Gallery, Exeter (1997);
• for piano solo, National Review of Live Art performance inspired by the work, life and environs of Erik Satie, Glasgow (1994).

I am a core member of Wrights & Sites, four artist-researchers who, for over twenty years, have focused on people’s relationships to places, cities and walking. We employ disrupted walking tactics as tools for playful debate, collaboration, intervention and spatial meaning-making. The outcomes of our work vary from project to project, but frequently include site-specific performance, Mis-Guided Tours (e.g. Stadtverführungen in Wien, Tanzquartier Wien and Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, 2007), published Mis-Guides (e.g. A Mis-Guide To Anywhere, launched ICA, London, 2006, and more recently The Architect-Walker: A Mis-Guide, 2018), ‘drifts’, mythogeographic mapping, public art (e.g. Everything you need to build a town is here for ‘Wonders of Weston’, CABE/Situations, Weston-super-Mare, 2010) or installations (e.g. mis-guided, Belluard Bollwerk International Festival, Fribourg, 2008), as well as public presentations and articles.

I am Emeritus Professor in Live Art + Spatial Practices at the University of Exeter, where I was formerly Head of Drama and the Director of Arts + Culture, responsible for co-writing, delivering and implementing a new cross-college, cross-campus Arts + Culture Strategy. I co-ran the Centre for Contemporary Performance Practices and have taught on the BA Art History and Visual Culture programme.

I have a history of deep connections with the creative industries, for instance:
• as a trustee of Bristol’s In Between Time, 2017-present;
• as a former Co-Director of REACT (Research & Enterprise in Arts & Creative Technology), a £4million-funded AHRC Knowledge Exchange Hub for the Creative Economy (a collaboration between UWE, Watershed, and the Universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter), 2013-16;
• as the former theatre, dance and live art curator at Exeter Phoenix, 2001-12;
• as a former member of the New Theatre Architects, an ACE-initiated think-tank that seeks to challenge artists and organisations to think about new models of making and supporting theatre in England, 2003-09;
• as a resident at the Kaleider studio in Exeter, 2013-2021;
• as a former board member, critical friend or associate to numerous organisations (e.g. Live Art UK, New Work Network, Spacex Gallery, Wide Awake Devon, b-side festival, Theatre Alibi and Exeter and Devon Arts Centre).