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March 2026 update
February was a busy month beginning with a further showing of "Made to Malfunction" (2018) as part of the Audioblast Festival in Nantes, France, plus a performance of new radio piece "Channelling Shortwave" using transmission recordings from my residency at GMEA, Albi, France in November 2025.
This was closely followed by a commission to make a new project for Konnekt in Geneva, Switzerland for their event "Broadcasting - Who's listening?". I took the Deconstructed Radio idea from Estonia last year further by dismantling and adapting a collection of analogue radios to resemble exploded diagrams that used to feature in instruction manuals.
Upcoming projects and activities in 2026 include:
March - presenting Deconstructed Radios and also "Channelling Shortwave" at DIVFUSE, London, UK - a rare thing these days to work in UK...
April - a week long residency back at La Générale in Paris, France to initiate a collaboration with the amazing Marc Baron.
May - a residency at Interface Inagh in Ireland, where I will develop a new work with donations of unwanted and disused electronic appliances from the local community, plus hopefully one or two concerts in other cities - Dublin and Cork being the most likely.
June-August - I am honoured to be artist-in-resdience with AiR Koganecho in Yokohama, Japan, where I will not only make a new project with e-waste, but also begin new collaborations with Suzuki Elico, Minoru Sato and Takamitsu Ohta.
As for the end of the year I am still waiting on responses from some applications, but also know that offers and invitations come in when you least expect them, so I could end up having another busy end to the year... and if not it will be a well earned rest!

