Tom Vinyl

The Show(er) is a solo performance piece which explores the fragmented structure of both life and performance. Acts are performed, entr’actes wash them away. Contains live showering. rnrnThis is a brand new performance project which I am currently working on. This piece is a collation of my obsession over the past few years with fragmented act likes structures and showers. I am hoping to perform a first scratch of the piece somewhere in Bristol, so if you know somewhere/ someone I should get in touch with, please do let me know.

A Life’s Walk, was a solo performance project, imagined and completed by myself between October and December 2013. The project explored the concept of mapping the time and memories of a life, onto a physical line. The life was my own; the line the South West Coast Path. The project involved me walking approximately 270 miles from the maternity ward where I was born in Barnstaple, to the University where I then studied in Falmouth. Over the course of 50 days I progressed through memories from each stage of my life, each one varying in personal significance and detail. My aim was to revive those memories give them a new existence in the places that I visited along the path. Using memory as a starting point I turned my focus to the landscape and people of the place I inhabited to create a series of videos, photographs, songs, poems and ultimately mini performances of different forms which revived and remapped a stage of my life as a shared memory onto the line along which I travelled.rnrnThe project was a huge success with a milestone performance in the CAZ space at Penzance and a final performance in the performance centre in Falmouth.