I see my practise as critically aware pissing around. There is an inherent silliness and second-rate pageantry to all my work. I work primarily with live performance. The live aspect is essential to me as I often seek to take a structure, e.g. a pub quiz, a white cube space or a degree show, and destabilise it through a sort of chaos-entertainment. My performances rely a lot on improvisation and involving the audience. Being able to react to the unpredictable variables of live performances helps to create the moments of destabilisation I search for. My way to rehearse for these moments often comes from a place of thorough research, giving me pockets of knowledge, actions and phrases, which I can fall back on.

When performing, I try to access a sort of persona that has developed of this song-and-dance-man. Through daft costumes and telling people I’m going to do such-and-such silly thing, I put myself into these sink or swim situations. Standing in the middle of a pub in my underwear singing a song about trivia, I can only either run away or double down, this is what brings this persona out of me.