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Performance

The History and Antiquities of Harewood in Yorkshire	Unbounded Moor

Historical walk around the medieval and 18th century landscape of the Harewood estate, led by John Jewell who wrote the first guidebook to Harewood in 1820	A symposium on landscape and literature, held in Haworth on 6 October 2012 as part of my residency with the Watershed Landscape Project
Seven Streams	Isolating V5 – Towards a Human Zoetrope

Presentation of research into the history of Bradford Beck, given as 2 evening performances at the old courtroom, Bradford City Hall, October 2010	Illustrated talk and demonstration of the Zoetrope phenomenon, using an original Zoetrope and including audience participation
Transported	The Diorama: Weaving Time & Space

Mystery Tour, September 2009, using a No.36 bus to visit sites between Leeds and Harewood Bridge that show the historic evolution of settlement along this old coaching route	Performative lecture as LJM Daguerre, featuring working scale model of the original Paris & London Diorama theatre
Lavater - The Shadow of History	Performing Magic in the Dark

A 1-hour performative lecture delivered in the person of JC Lavater, 18th century Swiss pastor and physiognomist who popularized the art of portrait silhouette through his influential writings	April 2008. Talk and live installation about photographers in fiction from 1850 to the present day
An Adventure in Space and Time	JC Lavater's Silhouette Drawing Academy

Impressions Gallery, Bradford, February 2008	An interactive workshop/demonstration of traditional silhouette portrait techniques
Farbenlehre	'I have forced the sun to paint pictures for me'

15-minute lecture in English by JW Goethe introducing his famous Theory of Colours	The Daguerre Project, December 2000