Author: John Collingswood

DUST

A collaboration between digital artists and dancers, DUST is a dance piece experienced through virtual reality, where you control your perspective and become part of the experience. I was introduced to this project by digital artist Maria Judova who worked with Andrej Boleslavsky on the initial R+D with Rambert Dance Company

DigiDance

A flexible workshop package that gets people moving. TaikaBox goes into a school, gallery or public space and we set up projectors, speakers and a Kinect depth-sensor camera. I take data from people moving in the space to create a range of light-painting effects that are projected life-sized. DigiDance can be a drop-in session where…
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Born Old

A 35-minute show for children aged 4-10 and their families. Born Old is based on the adventures of Väinämöinen, a character from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala. Using dance, song, storytelling and an interactive projection screen (the floor) it tells of the old man’s adventures and his battles with a powerful witch in the frozen…
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Kujalan Ratsutila

Branding and website for a stables in Haapavesi, Finland.

Angelica

Between 2006 and 2010, dance artist Deborah Light was busy developing a performative alter-ego called Angelica. She created numerous projects to research the character and her relationship with the world. I collaborated, alongside costume designer Neil Davies, on many of these projects, designing lighting and sound for performances and photographing Angelica in various locations. One…
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Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

Digital remix of the painting Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy by David Hockney Created for Wales-based performance artists Mr and Mrs Clark.

Mind Magic

Exhibited at Art Haven in Exeter in 2001. The speaker plays cosmic self-development exercises to the houseplant 24 hours a day. Throughout the course of the exhibition, the foliage grew significantly. mixed media: terracotta, soil, houseplant, mdf, speaker, wires, auto-reverse tape deck, cassette of Mind Magic by Janet Shine

warjakka.com

Branding and website for film/video/artwork project about the ghost island of Varjakka in Northern Finland

COLOURS

25 – screen video installation for LUMO 2017

nightwatch

nightwatch was built in 2016 as part of my working grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation. Basically, it is a small wooden shed filled with Northern Lights. It was exhibited in the childrens’ section of Liminka Public Library during October and November 2016.