Deviant Chores    https://vimeo.com/63555610

I have collaborated with academics both within University of South Wales (Glamorgan University) and academics from other institutions on a number of practice as research projects. Deviant Chores is a series of video performance work collapsing the roles of performer/filmmaker in collaborative dialogue with Ethnographic Filmmaker Dr. Aparna Sharma (UCLA).

Having used the camera in our respective film research practices to document the lives of others, for this project we expose our own subjectivity to the camera lens in our own domestic spaces. Documenting the domestic, critically, absurdly, playfully, mischievously and irreverently situate performance within the domestic landscape and so rupture the normative functionality/ies associated with domesticity.

On Vocation (2012)  https://vimeo.com/68637632

In And Between is a cross-disciplinary research group, which brings together poets, performers filmmakers and critical theorists from the University of Glamorgan. Funded by the University’s Research Investment Scheme, two separate but thematically connected site-specific projects have been undertaken.

One of those projects On Vocation (2012) is a performance for camera work  devised by Jodie Allinson and I .  Barry Beach, Wales being the chosen location for this site-specific collaboration, significantly the town where Allinson grew-up. Burrows and Allinson explored ways of representing their imaginative and sensory responses to the environment. Allinson brought her memories of life on the island as content for the devising process.

Out of a series of on-location improvisations emerged 5 personae, each embodying a different mode of relating to the landscape, exhibiting behaviour that is paradoxically, incongruous to, and harmonious with the landscape.

On Vocation was selected for Making Tracks an event produced by Whirlygig Cinema and The Cabinet of Living Cinema, The film was re-scored, the music performed live at Richmix, London 18/10/2012.