Paul Stapleton
Dr Paul Stapleton is an artist/researcher born in Long Beach (California, USA) currently based in Belfast (Ireland), and employed (from 1st August 2007) as a research fellow at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen’s University Belfast. He is also a founding member and co-director of the UK-based performance group theybreakinpieces.
His primary research interests are: dialogic approaches to performance and documentation; site-specific and environmental intervention art practices; new musical instrument design; sonic and cross-disciplinary improvisation; and performance research methods.
periodic and incomprehensive news
July 08 - An article I wrote several years ago has now been published by MIT Press in the Leonardo Electronic Almanac.
April 08 - I made a new film with Michael Gurevich & Gascia Ouzounian.
April 08 - Back from Mexico. Here is a review of our concert in Morelia (Spanish Language).
March 08 - New article available online in the Body, Space & Technology Journal: Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events
March 08 - Check out the archive from my recent UEA concert. Also, I will be performing with a few comrades from SARC at the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Art in Morelia on the 3rd of April. More info on this event will hopefully be updated here.
Jan 08 - Upcoming gig: University of East Anglia
and Seminar
Aug 07 - I recently completed a research project titled Dialogic Evidence: Documentation of Ephemeral Events, which included the following: the Covivencia Symposium, the Live Archives Workshops, the LiveArchives.org website, a presentation at the AHDS Performing Arts Summer School: Digital Representations of Performing Arts and a residency with theybreakinpieces as part of the Collision Symposium 2006. A paper on this project will be delivered at the DRHA 2007 conference in September 2007.
Projects in April 2007:
- Live Archives Workshops, Preston
- Games, Life and Utopia: a performative lecture - theybreakinpieces with Ben Evans, Improvisation Continuums: theorising practice across disciplines, Cardiff (with a second performance in Preston)
- CSR residency, Belfast
- theybreakinpieces with Jon Aveyard at Map Live 2007, Carlisle
- theybreakinpieces with Jon Aveyard at Spitball @ The Side, Newcastle
other things
two instruments created in a collaboration between myself and designer-makers neil fawcett and kiran singh
Old Artist’s Statement
At the moment - for better or worse - my practice is fragmented, located in the many exchanges with people and places that shape my daily life. Improvisation has become a common theme, both as a way of performing, and as a way of walking through a landscape in actions ranging from hill walking to food shopping. Another focus has become my relationship with specific individuals and locations. Through my collaborative involvement in the site-sensitive work of theybreakinpieces I am finding new ways of acting on, and learning about, the environments that I enter into. Also, I continue to be interested in the many forms through which documentation practices can collide with live art practices. My work is orientated through my engagement with experimental artistic activities, and informed by my ever-shifting knowledge of movement, food, technology, media, land and sound.
contact: pauljstapleton [at] gmail [dot] com
a documentary of a sometimes…co project that i was involved in: wouldn’t it be nice
my page at the school of music and sonic arts, queen’s unviersity belfast
some old music of mine on virb