MELISSA BLISS

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Melissa Bliss is an artist based in London. Her key interests are people and place and internal and external geographies. She uses a variety of media such as video, photography, sound, performance and installation.

Her work is often created through participatory processes in live interactions, audience participation, conversations and collaborations.

She has shown work nationally and internationally in Peter Stuyvesant's Ghost in New York, Beacon Art Projects in Lincolnshire, FRED in Cumbria, EASTinternational in Norwich and node-l media arts festival in London.

She has created guided walks, maps, sound works, videos for mobile phones and computer-mediated installations. Her work has been shown in a variety of locations including a shop window, a village hall, canals, cafés and through telephones.

She is also a director of the film production company Living Cinema.

I am currently making a sound installation with people in Portland for Chiswell Walled Garden, a community garden on the edge of Chesil Beach. It is inspired by birds, birdsong and migration.

I created a storycube to accompany the exhibition, using Bookleter. It will be available from the Walled Garden during the exhibition or you can also download it as a PDF.

My Delicious tags and Google Map for Portland

I am recording my ongoing research into silence on a Tumblr blog Moment of Silence

I am taking part in Ellie Harrison's Artists' Lottery Syndicate, a forty-strong collective of UK based artists who are joining forces to play The National Lottery over the course of a year, with the hope of hitting the jackpot. The Syndicate will run from 1 July 2010 - 1 July 2011.

Article in The Herald

Filmmaking on mobile phones workshop in FUSE arts festival in Kensington Garden

Community mapping workshops at Colegrave Primary School. This is part of Helen Marshall's two year Story of Stratford project

Community mapping workshops at HAFAD (Hammersmith & Fulham Action on Disability) using photography, video, audio, GPS and Google Maps. Themes emerging were an interest in nearby places, especially Fulham Football Club and Bishop's Park, and the difficulties of navigating the local area in a wheelchair.

Previous workshops took place in Westminster in early 2010.

I gave a lecture and workshop on film making on mobile devices at University College Suffolk which has evolved from Ipswich Art School, old haunt of Brian Eno, Tom Phillips and Roy Ascott.

I spoke at the London College of Communication at the launch of their new Eckersley Gallery. Other speakers were Michael Faulkner (D-Fuse), Yomi Ayeni (Expanding Universe) and Duncan White (Central St Martins).

I held a Demo Chants workshop & performance at the Accidental Festival 2010 at BAC (Battersea Arts Centre), London.

Photographs available soon.

Things We Get Confused is part of Five Years Gallery's Interrupted Correspondence, a programme of responses to the idea of conversation. This is showing at the James Taylor Gallery which has invited local artist-run organisations Five Years, Fieldgate Gallery, Katie Guggenheim, Supine Studios, The Centre of the Universe and Transition Gallery to host exhibitons within the gallery from Wednesday 14 October to Sunday 1 November 2009.

My new film Hinterland, made with people in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, was shown at the Leiciester Children's Holiday Centre in Mablethorpe on Sunday 20 September.

Hinterland was part of the The Intercult North SEAS Festival. My residency was commissioned by Beacon Art Project in partnership with East Lindsey District Council.

The film was also screened at The Hub in Sleaford as part of event on Artist, Film and Participation. The audience each received a copy of Hinterland on DVD with scratch and sniff cards.

A special game of International Vegetable Bingo was played at the Albany in Deptford along with a performance from My Dad's Strip Club.