Tilting at Windmills

Friday, 15 October 2010

Tilting at Windmills - film and sound installation










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Tilting at Windmills was a performance which sought to explore rural communities’ response to landscape change. Through field recordings and interviews with strangers encountered on a 100-mile walk between the wind farms that lie along the spine of mid-Wales, the resulting installation film intends to offer an embodied perspective - and space to reflect - on changing landscapes and lifestyle in a changing climate.
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Jess Allen is a performance artist from Aberystwyth. She combines long-distance walking art with one-to-one performance in rural landscapes. She has a PhD in biology from Aberystwyth University, and a PhD in contemporary performance from the University of Manchester. She trained as a dancer in between, latterly with an MA in Dance Making and Performance at Coventry University. She has worked as landscape officer for local government, dance lecturer (improvisation/somatics), community arts facilitator (AHRC Multi-Story Water), and as an aerial dancer for Full Tilt Aerial Theatre and integrated (disabled/nondisabled) companies Blue Eyed Soul and EVERYBODY dance (UK/US/Europe).
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  • Monbiot, G. (2008) Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning London: Penguin)
  • Lynas, M. (2007) Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet London: Fourth Estate
  • Rosen, N. (2007) How to Live Off-Grid London: Bantam
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  • Solnit, R. (2006) A Field Guide to Getting Lost Edinburgh: Canongate
  • Careri, F. (2002) Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice Barcelona: GG
  • Godwin, F. and Toulson, S. (1987) The Drovers’ Roads of Wales London: Whittet Books
  • Daniel-McElroy, S., Dalton, A. and Evans, P. (eds.) (2002) Richard Long: A Moving World St Ives: Tate St Ives
  • Tufnell, B. (ed.) (2007) Richard Long: Selected Statements & Interviews London: Haunch of Venison
  • Daniel-McElroy, S., Dalton, A. and Evans, P. (eds.) (2002) Richard Long: A Moving World St Ives: Tate St Ives
  • Whitehead, S. (2006) Walking to Work Abercych, Pembrokeshire: Shoeless
  • de Botton, A. (2002) The Art of Travel London: Penguin
  • John Etherington (2009) The Wind Farm Scam London: Stacey International

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