Through the practice of walking, observing and listening to places of increasing marginalisation, where the rural and the industrial intersect and elide; genetically engineered technologies turn fields into labs blurring the boundaries between the natural and the synthetic. This is a lonely place of disquiet.


A Rural Idyll: Apocalypse
Performance-Moving Image
colour HD video with stereo sound - in progress

A Rural Idyll: Wheat field Performance-Moving Image
colour HD video 8’25” with stereo sound



A Rural Idyll: Breath Moving Image
colour HD video 1’24” with stereo sound

A Rural Idyll: Wait-a-minute 

Performance
colour HD video 1’46” stereo sound 
A Rural Idyll: The Caged and the Free
Album
stereo sound 
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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