Film & Audio
Although much of my work is participatory, sometimes I make performances or performative films that people just sit and watch.
Meeting place
no climax yet
dead machine
backwards one
doomsday
matt film
Meeting Place (2012) by Hamish MacPherson & Martine Painter. Plays with visually unfolding an algorithmic formula. As the algorithm evolves, a curiously intimate and sometimes comic relationship between two human beings emerges.
Performed at Resolution! (Robin Howard Dance Theatre), The Industry Presents (Hotel Elephant Gallery), Science Museum's Dana Centre and Agony Art (Chisenhale Dance Space). Supported by: Birkbeck College, Dana Centre/ Science Museum, Eva Recacha, Hotel Elephant, Independent Dance, The Industry, Jerwood Space, Marco Benozzi, Marica Melotti, Newington Dance Space, Patrick Miller, The Place
"...delightfully unpredictable...."
Germaine Cheng, Resolution! Review
“A pleasing mathematical duet”
Time Out
"...genuine laughs out loud and a nice visible logic at play."
Lyndsey Winship, Time Out dance editor
“…the audience was left with a sense that, no matter how automated, dance is still a human endeavour.”
Lisa Grossman, New Scientist
Up On Two Legs (2013) A dance made from the sounds, structures and movement of political speeches. By adopting the archetypal political performance we ask, who speaks for us and to us. Photo by Gosia Wilder.
Performed at Westminster Kingsway College. Choreography: Hamish MacPherson with Vicky Frayard, Colm Gallagher, Sarah Gero, Steph Horak, Matthew Percy, Eva Percy, Amaara Raheem and Martin Shead. Performance: Vicky Frayard, Colm Gallagher, Sarah Gero, Eva Percy and Martin Shead. Thanks to: Alexandrina Hemsley, Gillie Kleiman, Lalitiraja, James Martin, Danai Pappa, Vasiliki Stasinaki, Reynaldo Young, Paradise Lost’s Retreat 2013 and Roehampton Dance.
The corrosive effects of time redefine everything against our will (2013) is a backwards choreography of people, spaces, ideas and things. It starts at the end, it unhappens by way of John Rawls, Radio 6 and Morris dancing, and then it begins. Sculptures are dismantled, words are unwritten and dances are undone.
Performed at Michaelis Theatre, University of Roehampton. Choreography and Performance by Hamish MacPherson Supported by Simon Ellis, Alexandrina Hemsley and Mike Toon.
dialogue 1 part 5: How to live in a dead machine (2014) by Hamish MacPherson & Maria Sideri. An encounter and an exploration of the possibilities and the impossibilities of a dialogue between two people in a big dead machine.
Presented at Chisenhale Dance Space a part of Agony Art 28 November 2014.
It is urgent that we take our time (2019) was selected by the Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Londonderry to be part of URGENCIES a group exhibition that “engaged with the present moment of rapid change and uncertainty”. The looped 1hr 20 minute film shows a split screen with two scenes of wrapping or unwrapping different people in fabric. A series of overlapping performances of passivity and activity, movement and stillness. See how different bodies are negotiated, roles switch and the cycle of dependancy and attention goes on and on, before the viewer arrives and long after they leave. Image: CCA Derry~Londonderry & Simon Mills
