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Paul Stapleton: Bio Paul Stapleton is an artist/composer/performer who was originally based in Southern California, USA. In 1998 he relocated to the North West of England where he has directed numerous projects including composition a (dance for screen at the 2001 Kino International Film Festival in Manchester). From 2001-2004 he worked as a lecturer on the Multimedia and Sonic Arts course at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). In 2004 he obtained his PhD at UCLan for his practice-led thesis The Development of Dialogic Music, which was funded in part by an ORSAS scholarship. Currently he is working as a post-doctoral research fellow in performing arts at UCLan and is a founding member and co-director of the UK-based performance group theybreakinpieces. He has published on topics including dialogic approaches to performance, site-specific improvisation in sonic and extradisciplinary live art, and documentation issues in performative research. Artists 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 music or interdisciplinary live art, 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 provisional arts-events, and informed by my constantly evolving understanding of movement, food, technology, media, land and sound. Read Paul's proposal to the Centre for Suburban Research and other related documents click here |
