BLISSBODY MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE GROUP FORMED 1992
| 2003 | March | FIRE GARDEN |
Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire |
| 2002 | August | BIG CHILL | Festival, Eastnor Castle Art Trail installations over three nights, culminating in a performance to mark the close of the festival. |
| July | AMOGHASIDDHI (playing with fire) | Buddha Fields Festival Final event/ceremony incorporating fire, sound and pyrotechnics involving seven hundred participants. |
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| June | ASCENDING ANGEL | Prague commision to the EU,
Brussels. Light and pyrotechnic show with Peter Fink and Anne Bean. |
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| MANY HANDS | Battersea Park with Anne Bean,
commisioned by LIFT. Six hour solstice event involving Kinetic light sculptures, music and ritual performance. |
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| 2001 | November | HUMDRUM | Inaudible Songs from our Electronic
Environment. Hexagon Theatre, Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham. Sound/video performance. An exploration of the electromagnetic auras surrounding everyday electrical devices. |
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October/ November |
LIGHT SHIFT | Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. A 2 mile trail of light, video, sound, fire and pyrotechnic installations in the forest, over 7 nights. |
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| September | HUMDRUM | Inaudible Songs from our Electronic
Environment. 'Extrasensory' 291 Gallery, London. |
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| February | HUMDRUM | Inaudible Songs from our Electronic Environment. 'In-between Time Festival' The Cube Bristol. |
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| 2000 | October | AUTO SCRYER 2000™ | 'Coming To Our Senses' A Craft
Space Touring Exhibition, Gas Hall, Birmingham. A kinetic, interactive audio installation. |
| September | CHARGE of the Light Brigade | West Park Wolverhampton. Part of 'Out Of
Darkness.' A one night site specific event including 20 light, sound and pyrotechnic installations. Conceived by Blissbody members Mark Anderson and Nick Sales, with Anne Bean. |
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| September | FREEFALL | Artsfest 2000, Centenary Square Birmingham. A 40 second intervention timed for the end of 'Proms in the Park.' |
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| January | AUTO SCRYER 2000™ | For 'Revolution' at ICC Birmingham, part
of the Forward Festival. A specially commissioned kinetic, interactive audio installation. |
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| 1999 | September | VOLATILE MANIFESTATIONS | For 'Apparitions' Artsfest 99,
Birmingham. An architectural video/light projection lasting for 3 nights in Birmingham city centre. |
| June | THE ELEPHANT IN THE BATH | Godiva Festival, Coventry. Sound and video performance. |
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| January | DEAD PIANO | Floodgate Street Studios, Birmingham. Time based installation involving an explosive transformation. |
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| 1998 | August | FORCED GROWTH | Part of 'Bloom' event, Uplands
Allotments, Handsworth, Birmingham Site specific time-based installation, taking over an allotment for three months. Culminating in a video/sound/pyrotechnic performance. |
| June | EXPLO '98 | With Anne Bean. World Expo Site,
Lisbon, Portugal. Time-based installation/performance. A pyrotechnically created painting, 15 metres long. |
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| June | VIBRATION WHITE FINGER | Leamington Peace Festival. Sound performance. |
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| June | AMORCES | Headcleaner Stage, Coventry Festival. Sound and video performance. |
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| February | MALL-CONTENTS | Blackpole Retail Park, Worcester. Site specific public installations and performance based on exploration of Worcester along extended compass points going out from a retail park. |
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| January | WINDJAMMER | House of God, Que Club, Birmingham. Site specific Installations and Intervention in a rave venue. |
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| 1997 | December | NODDY TWO SHOES | Cafe Rhombus, Bristol. Sound and video performance using sampled, found sounds. |
| October | CEREBRAL SALIVA | Hexagon Theatre, Midlands Art Centre,
Birmingham. Sound and video performance using sampled, found sounds. |
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| September | ARHYTHMIC INTERVENTION | Tribe of Doris Festival, Glastonbury. Sound workshops and performance. |
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| June | URBAN SINE~WAVES | Leamington Peace Festival, Leamington. Sound Intervention. |
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| January | TIME TRUGS | House of God, Que Club, Birmingham. Site specific installation and performance. |
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| 1996 | August | RE-CLASSIFICATION (52.12N 2.12W) | Worcester Museum and City Centre,
Worcester. A gradual mutation of the Museum environment using sound, video, text, and live intervention. |
| June | WIND WATER WAVES | 7/8ths of a Second, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham. Speaker-head intervention (See "Flash Art" December 1995.) |
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| April | OVERTIME | Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham. Audio-visual performance drawing on the sounds and images of industrial Birmingham. |
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| March | MILLENIUM LOCKERS | Walsall City Centre, Walsall. Speaker-head intervention (See "Flash Art" December 1995.) |
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| March | ARCHITECTURAL OVERTONES | Commissioned Radio 3 Broadcast. Sound piece using specially made instruments and sound sculptures. |
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| February | SMOOTH STRIP | Megatropolis, London. Light and sound installations, with speaker-head intervention (See "Flash Art" December 1995.) | |
| January | SHIPS IN THE NIGHT | House of God, Que Club, Birmingham. Site specific installation and performance. |
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| 1995 | December | FLASH ART | Benefit for Gary Kirkham, Bond Gallery,
Birmingham Mobile Intervention involving performers transmitting sounds through large speakers incorporated within their costume. |
| November | AIR RAID |
House of God, Que Club, Birmingham. |
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| August | BRIDAL DESPAIR | House of God, Que Club, Birmingham Site specific installation and performance. |
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| June | GLASTONBURY '95 | Green Field, Glastonbury. Exhibition of sound sculptures, workshops and performances. |
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March |
ZEN SURROUND | House of God, Que Club, Birmingham. Site specific installation and performance. |
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| 1994 | November | LA PYRAMIDE CACOPHONIQUE | Bond Gallery, Birmingham. Sound installation and performance with pyrotechnics. |
| October | ZERO IN BEHAVIOUR | Launch of Birmingham Centre for Media Arts. Installation and performance exploring childhood. |
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| September | HEAVEN HELP US | Outdoor Arena, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Audio-visual performance commissioned by MAC, using themes of Outer Space and life on other planets. |
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| 1993 | October | LIQUID PEEPSHOW | National Review of Live Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. A live sound and video laboratory, viewable by the public for six hours, through distorting lenses. |
| October | NEUROSURGES | Main Theatre, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Audio-visual experimental piece involving noise machines, sound sculptures, live incidents and projections. |
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| October | FLUE FLASH | Moseley Dance Centre, Birmingham. Installation of sound machines and other audio/visual elements. |
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| July | FOETUS VULCANICUS | National Review of Live Art:
Platform II. Hexagon Theatre, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. An orchestrated live art piece. |
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| April | THE DEMISE OF THE RABBIT | Bond Gallery, Digbeth, Birmingham. Installation and performance with sound sculptures. |
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| 1992 | June | BLISSBODY | Hexagon Theatre, Midlands Arts Centre,
Birmingham. Audio/Visual performance. |