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, interviews, audience participation 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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NEWS

Deptford Bingo for Tasty!
18 September 2009
London

A special game of International Vegetable Bingo will be played at the Albany in Deptford along with a performance from My Dad's Strip Club. The evening includes dinner. More information at Tasty!
Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire
September 2009
Mablethorpe

I have just started a project with the peole of Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire coast which will be unveiled in late September. It is commissioned by Beacon for Black / North SEAS.
Each Teach
May 2009
 London
I gave a 30 minute micro-lesson on dowsing at a day organised by Campbell Works.
EachTeach is part of Free School (25 April - 10 May 2009) at the Five Years Gallery.
 

RECENT PROJECTS


Co-Pilot
November 2008
London

I was an invited host on Co-Pilot, an online resource for people working at the intersection of art, technology and social change. It is an open resource for sharing knowledge, tools and experience and has forums, case studies and interviews. Co-Pilot has been developed by SPACE and Solar Associates.
Under the Waters
October 2008
 Thirlmere, Cumbria

Audio work, listened to on headphones via local FM broadcast at the edge of Thirlmere reservoir in the Lake District. The sounds of the city under the waters.

Part of FRED, an art invasion across Cumbria

Strandline
September 2008
 Greenwich Peninsula, London

A day of collaborative beachcombing on the muddy foreshore of the Thames making a people's museum which was washed away on the evening tide.

Part of Stream's Art in the Open for the Cultural Olympiad

Article in Street Signs Spring issue 2009, Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths University of London


Tactical Tech Toolkits  

Tactical Tech's fantastic Mobiles in a Box and Message in a Box are now live. These are toolkits for advocacy and social change. I contributed sections on making films on mobile phones