Profile
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.

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| Birdsong |
B-Side Festival, Portland, Dorset |
17-26 Sept 2010 |
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
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WORKSHOPS
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| Generations
Together |
FreqOUT!,
London |
May – June 2010 |
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.
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TALKS
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| Shooting
mobile |
University College Suffolk,
Ipswich |
December 2009 |
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
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Beyond
Cinema: The Future of
Live Cinema |
University of the Arts
London |
November 2009 |
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). |
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PROJECTS
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| What
do we want? |
Accidental
Festival 2010, London |
30 May 2010 |
I
held a Demo Chants workshop & performance
at the Accidental Festival 2010 at BAC (Battersea
Arts Centre), London.
Photographs available soon.
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Hinterland:
A
scratch and sniff film |
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire |
September 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
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| Deptford
Bingo |
The Albany, London |
September 2009 |
A
special game of International Vegetable Bingo was played at the
Albany in Deptford along with a performance from My Dad's Strip
Club.
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