creative work

• Mobilise/Demobilise, online and in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Aotearoa New Zealand

• Mobilise/Demobilise mirror installation, with Sara Larsdotter Hallqvist, Eva Ursprung and Manel Ruiz Blas; Transit Festival, Denmark, June 2002
• Next Moves, Magdalena München, artistic director; Munich, January-March 2022
• Mobilise/Demobilise, online and in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Aotearoa New Zealand

• Before the First, with Annie Abrahams and Suzon Fuks; video.
• Mobilise/Demobilise, online and in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Aotearoa New Zealand

• Mobilise/Demobilise, online and in Germany, Austria, Sweden and Aotearoa New Zealand
• Jeux de Massacre, UpStage, 9 July 2020, and at the Network Music Festival, 15 July 2020
• Letters of Love in a time of crisis, UpStage, 22 and 26 April 2020

• KNOT Festival, Magdalena München; producer; 12-29 September 2019.
• Weltreise München - participating artist; Munich, Germany, 19 May 2019.
• Ingen Frågar - No-one Asks - mirror installation in collaboration with Teater Interakt, Malmö, Sweden, March 2019 and Transit Festival, Odin Teatret, Denmark, June 2019.

• We have a situation, Northumbria!, cyberformance and networked discussion; artist in residence; Northumbria University, Newcastle, May 2018.
• Online En-semble - Entanglement Training, participant in networked performance directed by Annie Abrahams for Art of the Networked Practice symposium, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 29 March 2018.
• Magdalena München Saison 2018, artistic director and producer of a three-month season of women's theatre and performance; Munich, Germany, February-April 2018.

• Unaussprechbarlich, digital performance created and performed with Annie Abrahams; Faces 20th Anniversary, Graz, Austria, October 2017 and Frauen Theater Festival, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2017.
• Händelser vid Havet, streaming and projections for street theater project of Teater Interakt and Malmø Community Teater, Malmø, August 2017.

• We have a situation, Coventry!, cyberformance and networked discussion at the Shop Front Theatre, Coventry; concept and direction; artist in residence, Disruptive Media Laboratory, Coventry University, UK, October-November 2016.
• her light stretches - an installation of text, song, light and mirrors, premiered at Transit VIII, Odin Teatret, Denmark, June 2016.

• Unaussprechbarlich - research, performance and website collaboration with Annie Abrahams, created during 2015 and performed at Villa Waldberta, Schwere Reiter Theater and Lothringer13 Laden, Munich, Germany, November-December 2015.
• Temos uma Questão! - cyberformance and networked discussion, part of the series We have a Situation; concept and direction; Multicidade Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, November 2015.
• Virtual Artist in Residence, Nanyang University, Singapore; devised and directed we r now[here] with students for the opening of The Art of the Networked Practice, March 2015.
• Commoning the Networks: Feminist Methodology - discussion and workshop; creation of "virtual toilet"; Transmediale, Berlin, January 2015.

• Digital Handshake - improvised cyberformance for the Networked Bodies - Digital Performance Weekender, London, 8 Nov 2014.
• Tales from the Towpath - a textural treasure hunt; digital artist and writer in collaboration with Maya Chowdry, Sarah Hymas and Michelle Green; Manchester Literature Festival, October 2014.
• Residency, University of the Creative Arts - cyberformance workshops and work-in-progress presentation in UpStage, March 2014.
• The Salmagundi - digital artist for an interactive installation for 9-13 year olds in libraries in Stoke-in-Trent, UK, produced by B-Arts in 2014 and toured during 2014-2016.

• Reading Club - participant in project of Annie Abrahams, Sept-Oct 2013.
• We Have a situation! - concept and direction of a series of live, transborder, online-offline, participatory performances addressing current cross-cultural European issues; in collaboration with APO33 (Nantes), Furtherfield(London), MAD emergent art centre (Eindhoven) and Schaumbad Freies Atelierhaus (Graz), January-May 2013.

• The CyPosium - co-organiser; online symposium on cyberformance, 12 October 2012.
• Repository for Knowledge & Art - participant in group exhibition at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Potsdam; curated by Dr. Cornelia Osswald-Hoffman, July 2012.
• Biennale For One - group exhibition at Das Klohäuschen, Munich; documentation of an online performance that never happened (Open Borders, 2008); May 2012.
• make-shift - networked performance collaboration with Paula Crutchlow; performed during 2012 from Munich and Berlin (Germany), Providence (USA), Vienna (Austria), Auroville (India), Nantes (France), Brisbane (Australia) and Dunedin (New Zealand).

• make-shift - networked performance collaboration with Paula Crutchlow; performed during 2011 from Auckland and Wellington (New Zealand), Torino (Italy), Munich (Germany), Novi Sad (Serbia), Istanbul (Turkey) and Cardiff (Wales).
• Angry Women, participant in Annie Abraham's project, 2011.

• postajanje zenom - concept and direction, collaborative performance presentation for Rekonstrukcija Zenski Fund, Beograd, 20 November 2010.
• recipes for life - text, sound & mirror installation at Schaumbad Freies Atelier-Haus, Graz, in collaboration with Eva Ursprung and others, September 2010.
• make-shift - networked performance collaboration with Paula Crutchlow; performed during 2010 from Torino (Italy), London (UK) and Munich (Germany).
• Distant Presences - 20 June and 14 November 2010; online VJ collaboration with Ethernet Orchestra;
• Recipes for 2010 - installation, in collaboration with Eva Ursprung and Schaumbad artists, September 2010.
• Huis Clos/No Exit - particpant in live networked performance curated by Annie Abrahams and performed at the HTTP Gallery, London, on 13 Feb 2010.

• let ME go - performance installation in collaboration with scenographer Antonella Diana; premiered at the Ringkøbing International Theatre Festival, May 2009, then toured Ringkøbing regional libraries during October 2009.
• Women With Big Eyes - performance collaboration with artists of the Magdalena Project, Transit Festival, Odin Teatret, Denmark, August 2009.
• Artist in Residence, Villa Waldberta, Munich, Germany, July 2009.
• Machine Divas, Vienna, Austria, July 2009.

• a day in a life - performer and co-coordinator of the Brisbane node of a live networked event connecting Brisbane, Brighton UK, Skopje Macedonia and Curitiba Brasil, with Munich during the city's 850th anniversary celebrations, 19-20 July 2008.
• Adventures in Cyberformance: experiments at the interface of theatre and the internet - masters thesis completed July 2008, QUT, Brisbane, Australia.
• a gesture through the flames, cyberformance, devised and performed for season 2 of Breaking Solitude, January 2008 and at the Magdalena Aotearoa Gathering, March 2008.
• Women With Big Eyes - performance collaboration with artists of the Magdalena Project: Magdalena Sin Fronteras, Estudio Teatral, Cuba, January 2008.

• Belonging, with Avatar Body Collision
• exile. in Skin by Shelley Jackson, since December 2007.
• rings - digital video collaboration with Igneous, August 2007.
• Come and Go, with Avatar Body Collision, at the first UpStage festival
• Women With Big Eyes - performance collaboration with artists of the Magdalena Project, Transit Festival, Odin Teatret, Denmark, January 2007.

• Familiar Features, with Avatar Body Collision
• Trip the Light Fantastic, with Avatar Body Collision
• Artist in Residence, SCANZ, New Plymouth, New Zealand, July 2006.

• Demeter's Dark Ride - An Attraction - producer; promenade performance adventure directed by Madeline McNamara, STAB Season, BATS Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand, September 2005.
• swim - an exercise in remote intimacy - with Avatar Body Collision, BATS Theatre, Wellington, New Zealand, 2005.

• Dissension Convention - with Avatar Body Collision and Bea Gibson
• Lagging with the Lololols, with Avatar Body Collision
• DTN2, with Avatar Body Collision, first public performance in UpStage
• swim - an exercise in remote intimacy - with Avatar Body Collision, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Belgrade, Serbia, July 2004.

• Dress The Nation, with Avatar Body Collision
• swim - an exercise in remote intimacy - with Avatar Body Collision, Mesto Zensk / City of Women Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, October 2003.
• Water[war]s and swim - an exercise in remote intimacy; Magdalena Australia Festival, Brisbane, Australia, April 2003.

• Water[war]s - a performance installation directed by Jill Greenhalgh; participation involving text, digital media and research. ANET Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, December 2002.
• swim - an exercise in remote intimacy - with Avatar Body Collision, medi@terra festival, Athens, Greece, December 2002.
• Phone Jam - playwright; professional workshop, NTI, Auckland, NZ, 2002.
• Screen Save Her, with Avatar Body Collision
• the[abc]experiment - concept, director and producer; cyberformance created collaboratively by performers in New Zealand, the USA, the UK and Finland. BATS Theatre, Wellington, February 2002.
• Dreams, rituals and improvs with Desktop Theater, online in The Palace chat room.

• Between - playwright; premiered BATS Theatre, Wellington, NZ, March 2001.
• Water[war]s - a performance installation directed by Jill Greenhalgh; participation involving cyberformance, text, images, research and performance collaboration; Transit Festival, Odin Teatret, Denmark, January 2001.
• Dreams, rituals and improvs with Desktop Theater, online in The Palace chat room.

• Dreams, rituals and improvs with Desktop Theater, online in The Palace chat room.

• Risky/Risque - playwright, producer of premier at BATS Theatre, Wellington, NZ, 1995.
• The Debate by Riwia Brown - co-directed with Tamsin Larby for the Young and Hungry Festival, BATS Theatre, Wellington, 1994.
• Women Like Us - playwright; producer of tour to Wellington Fringe Festival, Taki Rua Theatre, February 1994; producer of premier at Globe Theatre, Dunedin, NZ, October 1993.
• The Winter Wife - director; Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, 1992.
• Sex, Lies and Shepherds Pie (video) - director; screened at the Mothra Student Video Competition and nominated in numerous categories, winning Best Actress (Kate Ward-Smythe).
• Manager, Hersterix women's comedy group, and producer of South Island tour, New Zealand (1991-92).
• Openings (video) - comedy docudrama about the alternative art scene in Dunedin, NZ; co-writer (with Karen Nobes), director and producer; screened in Dunedin and at the 1992 Canterbury Short Film Festival.
• The Benefits of Sex - playwright, and director of premiere at Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, 1991.
• Coffee & Cake - co-deviser, site-specific performance, Dunedin, November 1989.
• Dunedin Women's Festival - co-organiser, Otago University, 1989.
• Reigning Tampons and Death in Namibia, with Dunedin Women's Performance Art Collective; co-deviser, performer; Allen Hall Theatre, Dunedin, NZ, 1988.
• Death in Namibia, with Dunedin Women's Performance Art Collective; co-deviser, performer; Chippendale House, Dunedin, NZ, 1987.
• Mind Boggling - director and co-writer (with Philippa Jamieson); winner of the Junior Playwright's Cup at the Otago One Act Play Festival, 1982.

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Ingen Frågar, Holstebro, 2019

her light stretches, Holstebro, 2016

Unaussprechbarlich, Munich, 2015

Temos uma Questão!, Rio de Janeiro, 2015

Tales from the Towpath, Manchester, 2014

make-shift, Torino, 2010

Recipes for 2010

a gesture through the flames

skin
by Shelley Jackson

Women with Big Eyes
The Magdalena Project

swim - an exercise in remote intimacy, Ljubljana, 2004
Photographer: Nada Zgank

Dreaming with Desktop Theater
The Palace (online), 2000-01