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Simon Whitehead
Simon Whitehead’s work responds to circumstance through movement and performance, which may or may not manifest as solo action or social choreography, often working with the public, animals and materials. He is interested in how living amongst and working with materials disrupts any normalized experience of being human. Over the last 23 years, he has situated much of his practice in the valley close to his home in rural west Wales. Through walking here, he collaborates physically in a world of materials and events – building an archive of itinerant performance, often fleeting, ephemeral and playful. He hosts Locator, an ongoing experimental workshop researching ecological ideas through movement practice, situated in an ancient sessile oak woodland in Pembrokeshire. He is a member of Maynard, an interdisciplinary artist collective that collaborate on a programme of engaged dance activity in the village of Abercych west Wales, working through ongoing residencies, the village dance, workshops, local and international partnerships. As part of an AHRC-funded Ph.D. (PaR), based at the University of Glasgow and funded by the Scottish Graduate School, he is exploring what posthuman ecology means in relation to an expanded choreography of touch. The project soft matter is part of this research, and its current iteration Re-pair looks to rethink what the somewhat problematic notion of repair might mean for dance artists working within a virological economy.
Contact: University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK.