What's new 2025

I'm thinking about Climate Grief Karaoke project (building forward from ACE funded development 2023), next phases will include in depth research and development into exploring my/collaborators relationship to these three distinct words: Climate, Grief and Karaoke. A process will be investigated for each of these areas. For example in the area of climate, what is my + collaborating artists connection to place/landscapes/nature/identity/topography? How is nature crisis personal to us? in what ways do we experience this in the world/investigate our personal relationship to this in the live performance space? What is the function of this live performance, what form will it need to take and what is it that performance can do which feels illuminating to do with ecological discourse now?

I'm thinking about the saying 'grief is the price we pay for love', I think this very much applies to where we sit with ecological crisis (especially in the context of the western world). How can we grieve something we don't know? For example, the majority of the UK population grow up in urban areas with little or no awareness of when and where various foods are produced (this includes me too), 72% of UK land is managed for agriculture and 8% is built upon. How do we know what it is that we're missing out on? How do we mourn what we weren't aware of in the first place? Why does this matter?