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The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home - Performing Environments practice-based research.

'Performing Environments' is a practice-based research submission and consists of a body of work including performance-based work, video films, publications, artist talks and interviews in media.

'Performing Environments' is a practice-based research submission and consists of a body of work including performance-based work, video films, publications, artist talks and interviews in media. The contribution to knowledge is the development of a practice-based body of work which deals explicitly with climate change concerns specifically related to the nuclear family unit. It is necessary to look at this claim across a number of performances in order to appreciate the implications of the juxtaposing of the nuclear family unit and runaway climate change within a performance context. The publications, including the video films, are designed to indicate this as well as provide examples of how the development of this body of work has extended over a period of years. The artist talks and media interviews are supplied here to indicate the popular reach the research has had.

This submission consists of: four performances ‘A Promising Family Picnic’ for Two Degrees Festival in 2009, ‘A Performance Report’ for C Words exhibition at Arnolfini in 2009, ‘The Family CUT-OUT’ for Two Degrees Festival in 2011, 'Families in Transit' for Two Degrees Festival in 2013; artist residency for C Words exhibition at Arnolfini in 2009; an outsourced performance ‘Letter to the vacuum cleaner’ at Stanley Picker Gallery in 2010; two video films ‘Dealing with Distractions’ in 2009 and ‘Anti-BP Song’ in 2011; three publications and a number of artist talks and interviews.