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Assynt, November 2011 (Photo: Janos Domjan)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaWObSR0B90 i worked for carl craig
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photo credit: Janos Domjan,The Tolbooth, Glasgow, 2010

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

2011

Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993+

未来
E: kndvdsn @ gmail.com
BLOG: paperssum.blogspot.com
CV: February 2012

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今

Above Eoropie Beach, Outer Hebrides, June 2010

EDUCATION:	MRes, The Glasgow School of Art, 2009 — (Thesis: what-does-aleksandra-mir-represent)
	MA, University of Edinburgh, 1987 — PPE

JIMMY Still from shoot, 2010 (Camera: Alaisdair Smith)


Getting felt tip tattoos, Kansk Festival, Siberia, 2007	From Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993-2008

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↵ COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE コメディア・デラルテ ↵ PERFORMANCE ART._↵ _↵

超現実主義

Temporary and site-specific=action.

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Dada, Beat,

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_↵Downtown._↵
Films. videos, → photographies,

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& events. Choreographies, poems. Theatre. Spectacles._↵

Atlas (Mohammed)
dv, 2005

NITE CO, digital summer ISEA98, MANCHESTER 1998

_↵ ποιητης.

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אמנות . ↵ ^{Doppelganger.} Sometimes I recorded what happened, sometimes not.

Black Skull, fake comic books, 2007.

VICTOR EADIE, dv, 2007

The Black Skull.

黒い頭蓋骨

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ART™, Inverness, 2003

BRITISH COUNCIL London / Moscow, 2000

Javamuseum and Istanbul WebBienniale, 2003. Sound Vision and You, Tokyo, 2002

TRAMWAY, Glasgow, 2005→

Bankrupt,degenerate and Bolshevik pictures. Bleach. Silver and gold ink. Felt-tip pens. Chalk.

NU POGODI,
London, 2006

Action. ↵

Kulturdrang Nach Osten, Baikal, Siberia 2002

Moscow, 2000

Number 1 World Place, MUSEUM OF THE HUMAN IDEA, Krasnoyarsk, [BIG RED BEAUTIFUL RED MOUNTAINS], Siberia.²⁰⁰²

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Kansk Festival, 2007

↵ A CHIMPANZEE WITH A TONGUE AND TWO BANANAS. ХҮЙ

SYNAESTHETIC
SYNAESTHESIA.

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FILM KABARET MUSIK KABARET KUNST, Glasgow Tron, 2002

KABARET UH-HUH, Glasgow Tron, 2003

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Expurgated & experimental literature. ↵ vampire mask.

STEVE SKRYNKA, BARTERED RIDE, BBC, 2001 [here]

Pyrotechnic. Pasolini. ↵

INVISIBLE PERFORMANCE, 1997-2001

Hollywood.

¥€$

↵ I directed nine chapters from Finnegans Wake.

GENETIC WAKE, |1028| 1991-2001

Nice to Meet You JIM HAYNES

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↵

煙火

日光運動

Fire. Fireworks. Fireworks indoors. Fireworks. EC2.

DOM/FOUNDRY, London/Moscow, 2000/ DOM, Moscow, 2000; Glasgow Weekend, Foundry, 2000/

Glasgow gunhandler + blank ammunition

BANG BANG, Street Level Glasgow 1998/ BALLAD OF THE OLD DEAD DOG, LE RAT NOIR, Sauchiehall Street, 1997

JONESTOWN, NRLA, Glasgow 1996/ THE ARETOLOGY OF KYME (CUMÆ), Zoe Alambicum, Glasgow TRAMWAY 1996/

Flames. Naval distress flares. SloveniaCCTV (1995).

X MARKS THE SPOT
Peter McCaughey, Glasgow 1995

↵People's Temple. + Flavor-aid. Snakes.

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European Physical Theatre Symposium, Manchester, 1994/ KAFKA'S THE BURROW, w/ Vincent Vasseur, Gianni Piacentini's The Living Room, Glasgow 1991/ OH NO LOVE YOU'RE NOT ALONE (ROCK AND ROLL SUICIDE), Edinburgh Fringe Film and Video Festival 1992/ THE RAIN, Edinburgh Edge 1987, Traverse 1986/ Dundee SSDF 1986/ Edinburgh BEDLAM 1986

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UFO Club, 1989-90

Kafka.Knives & fire. The Rain (1986). EDINBURGH NICE GLASGOW LONDON PARIS Sf. GHEORGHE AMSTERDAM ZÜRICH CLEVELAND, OH
MANCHESTER LOS ANGELES MOSCOW OKAYAMA TOKYO ISTANBUL KANSK.

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(own)documentation

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Funding

FUNDING: KABARET UH-HUH, Glasgow City Council (Glasgow, 2002, 2003) / KULTURDRANG NACH OSTEN, Scottish Arts Council (Siberia, 2002) / GENETIC (FINNEGANS) WAKE , Scottish Arts Council (1993, 1994, 1995, 1999); Glasgow City Council (1994, 1995); Tramway Theatre (commissions, 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001), National Review of Live Art (commission, 1994); British Council (1995), Embassy for the Government of Rumania (1994); French Institute, Glasgow (1993-1995) / FOU® ®ING ©IR©U$, Scottish Arts Council (Moscow , 2000) / NITE CO, Northwest Arts (Manchester 1998)/ INVISIBLE PERFORMANCE , Glasgow City Council (Glasgow, 1998)/ LOTUS/The Aretology of Kyme (CUMÆ) , Scottish Arts Council and Tramway Theatre (Glasgow, 1996)

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Chalk, Transmission, Glasgow 2006

Lines Written in Chalk on the walls of the Tron (Kirk) Theatre (Hellfire Club/Strathclyde Police), March 2004

Sunshine Movement, Graffito for Kulturdrang Nach Osten, Moscow=>Kansk, 2002

2000-2010

2010
Black Skull Vol 2, 2010

Black Skull Vol 2, fake comic book covers, January 2010

From 2010+

2007
VIDEO MUMMY, GSA, 2007

BLACK SKULL

Fake comic book covers, BLACK SKULL (collaboration with Victor Eadie and Alaisdair Smith), Glasgow 2007
Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993-2008— installation for BLACK HISTORY MONTH, 12 covers for imaginary comic book in public installation at TRON Theatre, Glasgow, 2007.

SELF_FELT TIP PEN TATTOOS: 1984 IS NOT A TEE-SHIRT/THINK YEH YOU, Kansk, Siberia 2007
From Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993-2008

KANSK FESTIVAL

— juror and artist, 2007 (http://www.festival-cannes.ru/eng)

Victor Eadie from ken davidson on Vimeo. [10 seconds black at start].

Victor talks about beating up his best friend. He tattoos himself. Actor and script: Victor Eadie

VICTOR EADIE

(dv, 2007)

2006

NEW RIOT (CIA), 2006; from original @ Kurashiki, 2001 (2006)

ANIMAL GRAFFITI
documentation from one-on-one performance and photography project, Japan (September - December 2001).

Digital prints (1000mmx700mm) exhibited'\ (9) 2006: NATIONAL PLAN, NU PAGODI, London; (8) 13th NOTE, Glasgow; [GRAFFITI]|||||||||||||||||||| 2005: (7) TRAMWAY, Glasgow \ 2003: (6) 5th StreetLevel Open, Glasgow; (5) 13th Note, Glasgow; (4) Art™, Inverness // online: (3) WebBiennial, Istanbul // 2002: (2) Javamuseum: Netart UK and Eire; (1) SOUND VISION AND YOU, Tokyo.

2005

Artist before Work, Kurashiki, Japan, 2001 (2005)
ANIMALS 2, solo show, 8 digital prints, Glasgow TRAMWAY, November

ATLAS [MOHAMMED]

Atlas (Mohammed) from ken davidson on Vimeo.

A five day walk across the Atlas Mountains, April 2005. Edit with VITASCOPE.

2004
JOURNEY OF A BRAVE LITTLE MOUSE

— illustrations for client resource material, Glasgow Social Work, Halt Project, 2004/2005: children with sexual behaviour problems

From Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993-2008
Illustration from Journey of a Brave Little Mouse, 2004

2003

Frame capture from projections for playing of Sky, Horse and Death, Toru Takemitsu, Uh-Huh, 2003;vj:Vitascope

kabaret uh-huh, tron theatre, glasgow, 2003 from ken davidson on Vimeo.

tam dean burn, american football; greig whyte, solo sax; jock scott, poetry. live kabaret, glasgow 2003. video off live vision mix, vitascope. direction: ken davidson + kiss.

KABARET UH-HUH ||| (Changing House, Tron Theatre, Glasgow, January-March 2003): 4 programmes of interdisciplinary kabaret involving over 35 participants and multicamera live av: |||| BURNS NIGHT | TAM DEAN BURN, NICOLAS BLOOMFIELD, JOCK SCOTT, 5 PIECE HORSE FAMILY, CORA BISSETT. |||| AFTERLIFE NIGHT | TAM DEAN BURN, CORA BISSETT, THE LATVIAN CHORUS, ANNE-MARIE TIMONEY, STUART PORTER, GREIG WHITE, 5 PIECE HORSE FAMILY, JOCK SCOTT AND SAILORS ASHORE, RALF KAISER (University of Glasgow). |||| AFTERLOVE NIGHT | HOOLIGAN POET, GREIG WHITE, IAN GLASS, TORU TAKEMITSU, FREE RADICALS, DIANE TORR, JOHN CALCUTT (Glasgow School of Art), OPIE. Films from Novosibirsk. |||| AFTERNIGHT NIGHT| JIM DONOHER, HOOLIGAN POET, FLAMENCA FRITAS, FREE RADICALS, STUART PORTER, BABY DOK COLLECTIVE, PUM, OPIE. Films from VideoDOM (Moscow) and STUDIO U7 (Ekaterinburg).

Link to feature in The Scotsman January 2003

Optician's assistants, Okayama, Japan 2001 (2003)

ANIMA¬S, (solo show), Art™, Inverness - 8 digital prints, January - March 2003

CRANIAL TELEPHONE | intervention @ "LEFT BEHIND" Britannia Panopticon Programme (GSA), March 14 2003 | 1st live performance since 1938 at historic, surviving Victorian music hall.

A COSTUME FOR EATING ELEPHANTS | performance @ ICOLS, "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIE" programme, WASPS Studios, Glasgow, February 27 2003 | I AIN'T NEVER SEEN AN ELEPHANT FLY

2002

Felt tip pen tattoos, Kansk, Siberia 2002

Judith Milligan as emblem figure (rehearsal — dv frame capture), Kulturdrang Nach Osten, Siberia 2002

1st KANSK VIDEO FESTIVAL | KULTURDRANG NACH OSTEN , Siberia, (VideoDOM, Moscow), 1-15 August 2002: performance artist/ regie/ curator | MAGIK PRACTICES TO SAVE WORLD__________________________________| International media art project touring 50 artists to 5 cities in Siberia on Transiberian Railway: MOSCOW/ EKATERINBURG/ NOVOSIBIRSK/ KRASNOYARSK (Museum Na Strelke)/KANSK (1ST KANSK VIDEO FESTIVAL)/ IRKUTSK/ BAIKALSKI. UK Film Curator with 2 hours programme of 20 UK Shorts. Direction and interventions for extended performances within Kulturdrang public programmes. Masterclass collaborator for Slava Mizhin. Private and group performance • http://www.festival-cannes.ru/eng

interventions: \
                  <videorun>
                    *moscow   <  -------------------   >>>
                          \
                           \|*Yekaterinburg
                               \
                                \ |*Novosibirsk                /|*Irkutsk
                                        \ *Krasnoyarsk/_____*Kansk /    
                                            ------------------------  
                                                             \|*Baikalsk

> FILM PROGRAMME (UK): Kansk 2002 > > ANIMATION > A Gentle Breeze Blows By, Riccardo Iacono, 16mm, 1994-1996, 4 minutes 15' > SKZCP, Riccardo Iacono, 16mm, 1997, 3 minutes 10' > Island, Riccardo Iacono, DV, 2001, 2 minutes 4' > Rape of the Arthuropods, Arthur Lager, S8, 1997, 2 minutes 30' > Random Reel, ISO, DV, 2002, 10 x 20' > > EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE > The Fastest Film Alive, Arthur Lager, S8, 1987, 3 minutes > Polly Wants A Cracker, Brian Williams, S8, 2000, 12 minutes > Plug Me In, Add (n) to (x), DV, 2000, 32 minutes 10' > Hotel Central, Matt Hulse, DV, 2000, 10 minutes > Polsky Buty, Matt Hulse, S8, 2002, 5 minutes 30' > Below Ground, Peter McCaughey, 35mm, 3 minutes > The Flickering Shimmer, Peter Shayne, 2000, DV, 6 minutes 30' > Zero, Mike Stubbs/Gina Czarnecki, S8, 2001, 5 minutes > > SHORT FORM NARRATIVE > Marcie's Dowry, David MacKenzie, 16mm, 1999, 14 minutes 16' > Cold Light of Day, Zam Zalim, DV, 2002, 5 minutes 30' > The Turning Point, Richard Weeks, 16mm, 2002, 8 minutes > > ALTERNATIVE DOCUMENTARY > Instant Pussy, Arthur Lager, S8, 1996, 2 minutes 30' > Concrete Enema, Gimpo, DV, 1998, 3 minutes 30' > The Skye, Valentina Culpa, S8, 2001, 1 minute 10' > The Truth and the Light, Rob Kennedy, DV, 2000, 5 minutes 45' > Work, Rest and Play, Pictorial Heroes, 1994, 90 minutes > Victim of Geography, Pictorial Heroes, 1999, 105 minutes > The Moment of Long Now, Juha Huustonen (Finland) 2002, DV PAL, 8 minutes >

Stewart Porter (THE DRIVER) and Chloe Liberty (PATTY HEARST), BABY BABY BABY I LOVE YOU 3X, FILM KABARET MUSIK KABARET KUNST, Tron (Street), Glasgow 2002. Photo: Roisin McLoskey

Baby Baby Baby I Love You x3 from ken davidson on Vimeo.

Street performance outside Glasgow Tron, Chisholm Street. Actors: Stuart Porter, Tam Dean Burn, Chloe Liberty, Inge Stuckman. "The kidnapping of Patty Hearst." Text from 'c20 bye bye', read by Linda Marlowe.

FILM KABARET MUSIC KABARET KUNST * ALEX RIGG performed a brief Buto dance on Glasgow Cross. * VILNIUS, a Latvian refugee played some songs on the guitar before the audience entered. * Actor, IAN GLASS read an extract from BINGO AND PACHINKO (Ken Davidson, 2001-2002). * Actor, writer and translator, JIM DONOHER performed SEVEN SHADES OF BROWN (Donoher) with a heavily pregnant Latvian friend, Olga and her seven year old daughter, Consuela. * THE FREE RADICALS (a 2-piece rock and roll group) performed new music. Performers gave incidental walk-ons. * Actor, TAM DEAN BURN and actor, ANNE-MARIE TIMONEY performed C20 BYE BYE ETERNITY 8 TIMES ONE LIKE I SAID (Davidson, 1999). * GREIG (EARL) WHITE played assorted electro-acoustic instruments. * Dancers, CHLOE LIBERTY, INGE STUCKMANN and AYANDA TRUFFLE (Glasgow Truffle Club) performed adapted extracts from BINGO AND PACHINKO (Davidson, 2001-2002). * THE LATVIAN CHORUS, 3 Latvian Roma refugees performed Roma music and song. * APE/X, a Glasgow 5-piece art music group performed with own projection and live vision mix. * A fake film shoot (camera: DAVID BYRNE) BABY BABY BABY I LOVE YOU 3X was staged at the end of the evening across twenty minutes in Chisholm Street outside the windows of the Tron Bar with a blue Mercedes, Tam Dean Burn, Stuart Porter, Chloe Liberty and Inge Stuckmann (Truffle Club). * David Byrne and Ken Davidson operated live cameras. * SIMON RICHARDSON (VJ VITASCOPE) vision mixed camera feeds until the final set. *

2001

Schoolgirls, Okayama, Japan 2001

ANIMAL GRAFFITI | one-on-one performance, Japan, September - December 2001.

Masks from ken davidson on Vimeo.

Crash edit of digital stills, one-on-one performance photography, (Japanese) strangers in animal masks. Okayama, 2001.

past eve and adam's from ken davidson on Vimeo.

Site-specific production of Chapter 1, Finnegans Wake in mime. Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Diana Payne Myers; Derwent Watson; Martin Doherty; Carmel Stoney; James Donoher; Daniel Donoher; David MacKenzie; Tom Carruthers. Music Direction: John Cobban. 1 horse. 1 cat. 1 chicken. Technical Collaboration/LX Operation: Paul Sorley. Production/ Direction: Ken Davidson. TRAMWAY, Glasgow, 2001. Duration of performance: 40 minutes.

PAST EVE AND ADAM'S, |1028|, Glasgow TRAMWAY, January 2001 | production, installation and direction for nine actors, a horse, a cat and a chicken. #9 from series of site-specific productions using James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.

2000

10/2000: (installation) MOSCOW GRAVEYARD, New Foundry, London

Studios in Moscow, FOUNDRY/DOM, 2000. Photo: Tracey Moberley

From Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993+

9/2000: (director) FOUR ®ING ©I®©U$, $HEEP + B¬òW UP (FAKE) , DOM, Moscow
8/2000: (performance) THE PAVEMENT IS EXPLODING , New Foundry, London

GLASGOW WEEKEND: More Light More Power, New Foundry, London EC1, June 2000. Photo: Bonieventure Bagalue

6/2000: (storytelling) BINGO, AND PACHINKO, RP22, CORKY AND THE 525 , New Foundry, London
6/2000 (curator/performance) GLASGOW WEEKEND New Foundry, London

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(GENETIC) FINNEGANS WAKE, |1028|, 1991-2001

In collaboration with ex-National and London Theatre Group actor, Tam Dean Burn, between 1991 and 2001, produced and staged 9 site-specific performances of (genetically serial) single chapters from James Joyce's classic Work-In-Progress / Finnegans Wake (London: Faber&Faber, 1939): GENETIC WAKE. Project documentation exhibited: London (Clerkenwell Literary Festival, 1999); Glasgow (STREETWORKS 1998, FLY 1 1997); and Rumania (MEDIUM 6 1997).

1028 (1993-2001)

Background: Genetic Wake

Genetic Wake 1028 was a serial performance project roughly mirroring 1923-27 publication and compositional orders in the novel, Finnegans Wake (James Joyce; London, 1939); ie. 'genetic readings'.
Productions were conceived of as a series of individual, 'unrepeatable' actions and events; ie. to do with 'ritual' and 'corporeal mime'.
Productions were devised as situational responses to the several historical, social and physical environments of the individual locations; ie. were: 'site-specific'.
Productions were staged 1993-1996 and 2001. Documentation was exhibited, 1997 - 2000.

Awards

Scotland on Sunday PAPER BOAT Award (1994) to Tam Dean Burn for his portrayal of HCE in Here Comes Everybody, May 1994; SHAW Award (1993, Best New Play) for FWII.4(12:383-399):1923-39, October 1993.

Exhibitions 1997-2000

New Foundry GLASGOW WEEKEND, London, June 2000 - MORE LIGHT MORE POWER; New Foundry Gallery, London, August 1999 - documentation, « Hill »; Clerkenwell Literary Festival, TARDIS, London, July 1999 - documentation, «Hill»; Streetworks Festival, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, October 1998 - «plein air» ; FLY 1, FLY Gallery, Glasgow, July 1997 - soundtrack / installation «Themes from Mr Porter» ; MEDIUM 4, Sf. Gheorge, Rumania, May - September 1997 - sound and publicity

Performances 1993-2001

Photoshop montage, past Eve and Adam's, TRAMWAY, Glasgow, February 2001

From Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993+

,_past Eve and Adam's,_ Glasgow TRAMWAY Theatre, February 1 - 3 2001 (50') — St Bride's Day //Lessons BAC London, March 26-28 1996 (25') // Mr Porter Glasgow TRAMWAY Theatre, September 21 - 23 1995 (70') //Hill Black Wood, Castlemilk, Glasgow, June 21 1995 (60'; June 16 - July 1) — Midsummer's Night's Eve //Shem Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Colonial Arcade Ballroom Store, Ohio, USA, April 15 1995 (25') — Holy Saturday //Bright New Day National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow, October 28 1994 (8hr) // Fragment of an Unpublished Work MEDIUM 3, Sf Gheorghe, July 26 1994 (2hr 15') // Here Comes Everybody Glasgow TRAMWAY Theatre, 17-22 May 1994 (70') // FWII.4(12:383-399):1923-39 Glasgow TRAMWAY Theatre, 8-11 October 1993 (4hr 30") — anniversaries of Joyce and Nora's elopement

→ PAST EVE AND ADAM'S, TRAMWAY, Glasgow 2001: surtitler; frame capture from dv documentation.

Glasgow TRAMWAY - performances on 36 tonnes of sand, with 6 cases of Guinness, a cat, a chicken and a horse.

The man, `HCE`. The maid, `KATE`. `BIDDY DORAN`, a chicken. `COPENHAGEN`, a horse. `BUTTERCUP`, a cat. `SIR CHRISTOPHER SAINT LAWRENCE`, a boy (3). `ISSY`. Four others, `JOHNNY MACDOUGALL`, `MATT GREGORY`, `LUKE TARPEY`, and `MARCUS LYONS`. `SACKERSOUN`, a policeman. The Battle of Waterloo.

The word riverrun is displayed. There is a chicken (`BIDDY DORAN`) in a coop in the foreground. A man (`HCE`) appears drunkenly from the wings. He staggers through a landscape of upturned chairs and tables and falls over.

A young boy (`TRISTAN`) enters. The boy wears a gold mask. Another man (`MARCUS LYONS`) enters. `MARCUS LYONS` takes away a Union Jack planted in the sand.

Others enter: a maid (`KATE`) carrying objects; a woman (`ISSY`) with (`BUTTERCUP`) a cat ; 3 further men, one `MUTT/MATT GREGORY` with bowler hat, all 3 men in black. `HCE` immobile in the foreground, the characters remove detritus from the 'stage' and place this against the red (MAGAZINE) wall seen at the back. The boy looks on.

The characters sit at the rear. `ISSY` sits herself before a mirror. `KATE` continues to transport objects across the scene. The child (`TRISTAN`) leaves. `MARCUS LYONS` continues to place tiny soldiers in the landscape upstage.

A horse (`COPENHAGEN`) enters accompanied by a policeman (`SACKERSOUN`). The horse rolls in the dirt on the ground. The drunk `HCE` stands up only to collapse. The policeman leads away the horse and stands with it, smoking at the back.

The maid (`KATE`) comes forward and gives the chicken feed. `ISSY` comes and searches through the pockets of the collapsed `HCE`. `MARCUS LYONS` continues to set out his tiny soldiers.

The maid (`KATE`) comes forward with a shovel of fire and drips flames across the ground. There is a conversation between `MUTT/MATT GREGORY` and `JOHNNY MACDOUGALL/A JUTE`.

`JOHNNY MACDOUGALL/A JUTE` comes forward and lowers a door from above.`JOHNNY MACDOUGALL/A JUTE` places a chair before the door and positions the unresisting, collapsed drunk (`HCE`) on the chair. `MUTT/MATT GREGORY` paces forward. The solitary man (`LUKE TARPEY`) looks on. The maid (`KATE`) appears once again with a shovel of fire. The horse (`COPENHAGEN`) is brought upstage. `HCE` crawls to behind the door.

The door rises. `HCE` steps forward. His hand holds a dildo in his trouser flies. He falls over. The lights fade. The word Edenborough is displayed.

Source: Opening Pages of a Work in Progress (transition 1, 1927 - FWI.1).Tam Dean Burn; Diana Payne Myers; Derwent Watson; Martin Doherty; Carmel Stoney; James Donoher; Daniel Donoher; David MacKenzie; Tom Carruthers. Music Direction: John Cobban. Technical Collaboration/LX Operation: Paul Sorley. Duration of performance: 40 minutes.

→ LESSONS, BAC, London 1996; Skye McDade Burn SHEM/SHAUN, Tam Dean Burn SHAUN (EARWICKER).

Battersea Arts Centre, BAC London - Irish Festival. Performances at twilight in dirt courtyard of long established London experimental theatre venue

A dirt courtyard. Slate. Black outs. A boy (`SHEM/SHAUN`) counts time on his fingers. He beats out the time with the wings of a metal lion. A girl (`ISSY`) standing on a mirror. She kneels. A man (`HCE`) emerges from a slatepile and staggers to the cast iron railings of the fence. He lights and smokes a cigarette, staggers again and falls over. The boy (`SHEM/SHAUN`) moulds clay in the dirt. The girl (`ISSY`) raises her skirts to show her vagina. The girl (`ISSY`) and the boy (`SHEM/SHAUN`) for one short moment, play. Flowers. The man (`HCE`) is motionless. The girl (`ISSY`) stands. The boy (`SHEM/SHAUN`) throws cards into the air. The man (`HCE`) exits through stairs in the ground.

Source: The Muddest Thick Ever Heard Dump incunabula, (FWII.2. Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Skye MacDade-Burn; Loeïza Marig Jacq. Duration of performance: 25 minutes

→ MR PORTER, Tramway, Glasgow 1995: composite image; Loeiza Marig Jacq ISSY, Tam Dean Burn SHAUN (EARWICKER).

TRAMWAY (1), Glasgow. Proscenium. A 6' hole excavated through concrete venue stage floor.

A man (`HCE/SHAUN`). A girl (`ISSY`) sleeping. The man (`HCE/SHAUN`) moves the girl (`ISSY`) to lie her sleeping upstage. Leaves and branches. Fruit. Boxes of fresh apples, oranges, pears. A sack of potatoes. Books. Masks. A leg of ham. A dressing table with lights. A whisky barrel. A gun. Fire. Flowers. Water falling from the roof. The sky. A plank. The man (`HCE/YAWN`) throws everything he can into the grave. Finally, he throws himself on top. The girl (`ISSY`/`ALP`) looks on.

Source: Shaun abcd incunabula, (FWIII) Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Loeïza Marig Jacq. Soundtrack/Technical collaboration: John Laurie Cobban. Duration of performance: 60 minutes

→ HILL, Glasgow 1995: composite image; Oliver and Anders Rigg MICK AND NICK, Tam Dean Burn EARWICKER (Foundry Collection) Independent, preview article.

Evening walk through Black Wood, Cathkin Brae, Castlemilk overlooking Glasgow City limits on Midsummer Night's Eve.

Midsummer's Night's Eve. A man (`HCE/X`). A suitcase. A donkey (`SHAUN/YAWN`). Two boys (brothers, 2 - `NICK`, and 4 - `MICK`). The elder boy (`MICK`) holds a sword and puts angel wings on his back; the younger (`NICK`) adopts horns and trident. A wood. Flowers. Leading the donkey, the man (`HCE/X`) climbs the hill to a stage on the summit. Dusk. The city. The walk continues to the stage above the wood. The donkey waits. The man, (`HCE/X`), sets a table to eat oysters. He drinks a bottle of Guinness. The elder boy (`MICK`) plays a toy trumpet. A fire on the table. Wings blow in the wind. The sun sets.

Source: Shaun a incunabula, (FWIII.1). Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Oliver (4) and Anders Rigg (2 yrs); a donkey. Duration of performance: 60 minutes

→ SHEM/LAKE ERIE, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1995: Skye MacDade Burn SHEM.

Found space at Colonial Arcade Ballroom - storeroom. 8th Annual Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Ohio, USA.

An 8 year-old boy (`SHEM`) switches on lights in an unused store room. He (`SHEM`) moves pipes on the floor. Wooden boards conceal the door of a cupboard. The boy (`SHEM`) moves the boards and drags the body of his father (`HCE`) out from the cupboard and across the floor. The boy (`SHEM`) empties grapefruit from a suitcase he (`SHEM`) upends. He (`SHEM`) seats himself on his father (`HCE`)'s body and eats a fruit. He (`SHEM`) switches the lights off and leaves. Unsteadily, his father (`HCE`) stands up. He (`HCE`) switches the lights on. He (`HCE`) adjusts his eyes.

Source: `SHEM` the Penman, FW I.7. Characters: E/`SHEM`. Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Skye MacDade-Burn. Duration of performance: 25 minutes

→ BRIGHT NEW DAY, NRLA, Arches, Glasgow 1994 : Tam Dean Burn EARWICKER (JOYCE)

Time-based installation: 365 wet clay bricks holding 111 gallons of water. The Arches, Glasgow National Review of Live Art

A woman (`ALP`) appears and leaves. A pool of water of 111 gallons formed by 365 wet clay bricks. A man (`HCE`) entering and exiting from a room 'offstage'. The man (`HCE`) leaves measurement devices and tools in positions on either end of the pool. He carries buckets of water to the pool. He stands still in the light. There is a blue panel. Whisky. Flowers. The man (`HCE`) stands on the water. Noise. A violin lesson. The woman (`ALP`) reappears.

Source: Anna Livia Plurabelle, FW I.8. Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Pene Herman-Smith. Technical collaboration: John Laurie Cobban. Duration of performance: 8 hours

→ THE HEN/FRAGMENT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED WORK, MEDIUM 3, Rumania 1994: Tam Dean Burn HCE/JOYCE

MEDIUM 3 TRENCH ART FESTIVAL, Transylvania (RUMANIA). A walk from a hilltop cemetery to the stage of a state town theatre.

A man (`HCE`) finds a girl ('`prostituent in herba`') asleep in a cemetery. There is a chicken (`ALP`/`BIDDY DORAN`). The man (`HCE`) has a sickle. The man (`HCE`) walks through the town beneath the cemetery. Graves. Pen and ink. Notes. A map. 78 rpm discs. A picnic gramophone. Flowers. Compasses. The man (`HCE`/`SHEM`) starts a fire.

Source: The Hen/The Letter, FWI.5. Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Ekaterina (volunteer). Duration of performance: 110 minutes

→ HERE COMES EVERYBODY, TRAMWAY, Glasgow 1994: Tam Dean Burn EARWICKER (JOYCE).

Derelict Workshop Space (5), TRAMWAY, Glasgow. A field of wheat 100m².

A field of wheat. Bric-a-brac. Birdsong. A woman (`ALP`). A man (`HCE`). A wall. The day sky. The sky at night. The man (`HCE`) stands. He (`HCE`) gathers a sickle to hand. He (`HCE`) starts a fire. He (`HCE`) lowers his trousers. The woman (`ALP`) tries to stop him. They (`ALP` and `HCE`) dance. The man (`HCE`) dons a beard. He (`HCE`) climbs a ladder, sickle in hand. The man (`HCE`) falls.

Source: Here Comes Everybody, FW I.2. Actors: Tam Dean Burn; Pene Herman-Smith. Technical collaboration/Soundtrack: John Laurie Cobban. Lighting Operation: Tim Barker. Duration of performance: 70 minutes

→ FWII.4(12:383-399):1923-39, Tramway, Glasgow 1993: installation view; Tam Dean Burn EARWICKER/MAMALUJO

Gallery, TRAMWAY, Glasgow. Staged nightly at twilight between the anniversaries of Joyce and Nora's elopement from Dublin and the consummation of their love in Zürich three days later (October 8-11 1904).

A man (`HCE/X`). Twilight. Museum displays. Books. Packaging. Papers. Records. Shadows. China. Flame. 24 tonnes of sand.

Source: From Work in Progress (1924), FW II.4. Actor: Tam Dean Burn. Technical collaboration /Soundtrack: John Laurie Cobban. Lighting Operation: Brian Donaldson. Duration of performance: 270 minutes

SELECTED CREDITS

1/2010: (artist/producer / fake comic book covers) BLACK SKULL Vol 2, 13th Note, Glasgow
1-3/2009: (documentation included in) SNAPSHOTS, GOMA, Glasgow
12/2007: (performance) VIDEO MUMMY, Glasgow School of Art
10/2007: (artist/producer / fake comic book covers) BLACK SKULL , Tron, Glasgow
9/2007: (producer/director) PRESS KABARET , Gramofon, Glasgow

Chalk grafitti, Kansk, Siberia 2007

9/2007: (artist and jury) KANSK FESTIVAL , Siberia
8/2007: (filmmaker) VICTOR EADIE , dv
11/2006: (artist) GIRL IN PARTS , digital prints, 13th Note, Glasgow
10/2006: (club performance) POLICEMAN, COWBOY & BALLOONS, Italian Centre, Glasgow

Pavel and the Mona Lisa, still, Glasgow 2006

Pavel with €uros, still, 2006

10/2006: (filmmaker) HOME MOVIE , dv

Alan, COWBOY FILM, 2006

8/2006: (filmmaker) COWBOY FILM, dv

BEATNIK, GO ON TAKE EVERYTHING, digital print, bleach and ink, 2006. [friend]

3/2006+: (artist) ANIMAL GRAFFITI , NU POGODI (Collection), London, E1 London
3/2006: (artist) ANIMAL GRAFFITI, 13TH NOTE, Glasgow
11/2005: (artist) ANIMALS 2, solo exhibition, digital prints, TRAMWAY, Glasgow
5/2005: (filmmaker) ATLAS [MOHAMMED], Document 3 & Kansk 5

From Ken Davidson: assorted images 1993-2008

JOURNEY OF A BRAVE LITTLE MOUSE, Glasgow Social Work, HALT Project, 2005

9/2004: (illustrator) JOURNEY OF A BRAVE LITTLE MOUSE; Glasgow Social Work book: HALT PROJECT
2/2004: (NRLA Winter School/Richard Layzell) LINES WRITTEN IN CHALK ON THE TRON, Tron, Glasgow
10/2003: (contributor) Catalogue Notes, Gavin Turk, THE GOLDEN THREAD, White Cube, London EC1
9/2003: (storytelling) RINGO AND SPIKE, New Foundry, London
6/2003: (artist) ANIMALS + HUMANS, KEN DAVIDSON, 13th Note, Glasgow
4/2003: (artist) 5th STREET LEVEL OPEN, StreetLevel Photoworks, Glasgow
3/2003:(performance) CRANIAL TELEPHONE, BRITANNIA PANOPTICON, Glasgow
2/2003: (performance) COSTUME FOR EATING ELEPHANTS, ICOLS, WASPS Studios, Glasgow
1-3/2003: (curator, producer, director: 3 kabarets) KABARET UH-HUH, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
1-3/2003: (artist) ANIMA¬S, Art™, Inverness - 8 digital prints
9/2002: (artist - chalk graffiti) TAILLE D'ESPRIT, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
8/2002: (storytelling) Resonance 104.4 FM: THE KEYS TO HEAVEN , London

Interactive performance photography, KULTURDRANG NACH OSTEN, Lake Baikal, Siberia 2002

Artists and carriage, KULTURDRANG NACH OSTEN, SIberia 2002

8/2002: (artist/direction/UK film curator) KULTURDRANG NACH OSTEN , Siberia
7/2002: (animal photographs broadcast from internet @) SOUND VISION AND YOU, Tokyo

Sandra, ROMA MUSIC from Vilnius, FILM KABARET MUSIK KABARET KUNST, Tron, Glasgow 2002 [frame capture ]

6/2002: (curator/producer/director) FILM KABARET MUSIK KABARET KUNST , Tron Theatre, Glasgow
2/2001: (producer/director) |1028| PAST EVE AND ADAM'S , TRAMWAY, Glasgow
7/1998 - 2/2001: (artist) | [[ invisible art ]], Glasgow, London, Los Angeles
10/2000: (installation) MOSCOW GRAVEYARD , New Foundry, London
9/2000: (director) FOUR ®ING ©I®©U$, $HEEP + B¬òW UP (FAKE), DOM, Moscow
8/2000: (performance) THE PAVEMENT IS EXPLODING, New Foundry, London
7/2000: (stall installation) SUPERNOVA: HARRY POTTER PLATFORM 9¾, King's Cross, London

Poster, GLASGOW WEEKEND, Foundry, London 2000

More Light More Power, Glasgow Weekend, New Foundry London EC1, 2000 from ken davidson on Vimeo.

A horse walks into a bar. Curator/producer/director: Ken Davidson. Camera: Jamie Rory Lucy. Edit: Ken Davidson & Chris Bowman.

6/2000 (curator/performance) GLASGOW WEEKEND (+), FOUNDRY, London
6/2000: (storytelling) BINGO, AND PACHINKO, RP22, CORKY AND THE 525, FOUNDRY, London
12/1999: (script/director) C20 BYE BYE ETERNITY EIGHT TIMES ONE LIKE I SAID, Scala, London
11/1999: (editor) ZAOUM THEATRE: 60 WATT MACBETH, Kuwait/London; dir. Sulleyman Al-Bassam
8-10/1999: (director - 3D digital animation) EYE, Voyeurism, Archaos, Glasgow
9/1999: (artist) DOCUMENTATION (HILL) — Foundry Collection, New Foundry, London EC1
8/1999: (artist) DOCUMENTATION (HILL), Clerkenwell Literary Festival, Tardis, London EC1
4/1999-6/2000: (consultant) Sara Jean Couzens: SPELLBOUND, Archaos, Glasgow + Scala, London
1-8/1999: (consultant) BUDAPEST MERLIN THEATRE: LAODAEMIA, Scottish International, Edinburgh
11/98: (filmmaker) FABPARK, A PLAYGROUND IN POSSILPARK (DV; HHA, Glasgow 1999)
10/1998: (producer/director) BANG BANG, STREETWORKS, Glasgow - broadcast on RTBF
10/1998: (artist) documentation: FRAGMENT | HILL, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow

NITE CO, Digital Summer/ISEA98, Manchester, 1998

9/1998: (co-producer/public art — with Jamie Burroughs) NITE CO, ISEA98, Manchester Arndale Centre
8/1998: (co-producer/2nd unit camera) STRANGERS (DV, Sue Denim/Gods of the Plague), Mecca, Glasgow
7/1998: (club performance) Love Boutique: JOE GRIMALDI 2, The Arches, Glasgow
5/1998: (artiste) Conspiracy: JOE GRIMALDI 1, BAC, London
2/1998: (collaborator) CONCRETE ENEMA (dv, dir. Gimpo)
11/1997: (production consultant): CONSPIRACY: C21, VIBE BAR, London E1
11/1997: (performance) Le Rat Noir: BALLAD OF THE OLD DEAD DOG, Giles Havergal's flat, Glasgow
11/1997: (book launch / associate producer) ARTHRHOB/ellipsis:K FOUNDATION BURN £1m, Atlantis, London /13th Note (Club), Glasgow
11/1997: (performance) ELVIS AND MONEY; Atlantis, London

Themes from Mr Porter, Installation at FLY1 (tarmac, concrete moulds, water; sound system with soundtrack to Mr Porter), Fly Gallery, Glasgow, 1997. Photo: Alisdair Smith

7/1997: (installation)THEMES FROM MR PORTER, FLY 1: KEN DAVIDSON / RORY DONALDSON / RICHARD WRIGHT, Fly Gallery, Glasgow
5-10/1997: (artist) DOCUMENTATION: WAKE, Medium 4, Sf. Gheorghe, Rumania
10/1996: (performance — 8 hour monologue) JONESTOWN, NRLA, The Arches, Glasgow
9/1996: (producer/director/libretto) Zoe Alambicum: ARETOLOGY OF KYME (CUMÆ), TRAMWAY, Glasgow
8/1996: (club performance) A PHOTOGRAPH (FOR MADONNA), Speigeltent, Edinburgh
5/1996: (consultant) ARTHROB, London - new literature agency
3/1996: (producer/director) |1028| LESSONS, BAC, London

Vanessa Smith, A PHOTOGRAPH (FOR MADONNA), Archaos, Glasgow 1995. Photo: Alisdair Smith

12/1995: (club performance) A PHOTOGRAPH (FOR MADONNA), Archaos, Glasgow
11/1995: (performer) Peter McCaughey: X MARKS THE SPOT, Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
9/1995: (performer) Alex Rigg: HOUSE LIKE SKIN, SSA, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
9/1995: (producer/director) |1028| MR PORTER, Tramway, Glasgow
8/1995: (curator) NEW SCOTTISH VIDEO (Iacona, Grierson, Yuill) DAMAGE, Edinburgh Fringe

Hill, Castlemilk, Glasgow 1995

6/1995: (producer/director) |1028| HILL, Glasgow city limits
6/1995: (club performance) Love Boutique: VIRGIN WITH FIRE, The Arches, Glasgow
4/1995: (performer) BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
3/1995: (producer/director) |1028| SHEM, Cleveland Performance Art Festival, OH, USA
12/1994: (club performance) Love Boutique: ICON OF VIRGIN, The Arches, Glasgow
11/1994: (club performance) Love Boutique: (HOW TO WEAR) CINDY SHERMAN, Arches, Glasgow
11/1994: (performance) Marc Hawker/Nation: BLIND, 99 Gallery, Glasgow
10/1994: (producer/director) |1028| BRIGHT NEW DAY, NRLA, Arches, Glasgow
9/1994: (actor, DRUNK) THREE STEPS TO HEAVEN (dir: Constantine Gianarris; Mayavision, 1995)
7/1994: (producer/director) |1028| FRAGMENT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED WORK, Medium 3, Sf Gheorghe, Rumania
5/1994: (producer/director) |1028| HERE COMES EVERYBODY, Tramway, Glasgow
4/1994: (performer) BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
12/1993: (club performance) UNIVERSITY OF SLOVENIA; Slovenia Benefit, The Vaults, Edinburgh

Tam Dean Burn, FWII.4(12:383-399):1923-39, Tramway, Glasgow, 1993

10/1993: (producer/director) |1028| FWII.4(12:383-399):1923-39, Tramway, Glasgow
7/1993: (club performance) Riccardo Iacona, NOTES ON DRESS, The Tunnel, Glasgow
4/1993: (performer) BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
4/1993: (club performance) HOW YOU LOOK TONIGHT, Industria, Glasgow
2/1993: (club performance) OBSERVATION, Industria, Glasgow
1/1993: (club performance) MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, Industria, Glasgow
12/1992: (club performance) OH NO, LOVE, YOU'RE NOT ALONE, EFFV Festival, The Vaults, Edinburgh
11/1992: (installation) NIGHT WITH JOHNNIE, CCA, Glasgow
10-11/1992: (choreography & performance), [12], Dundee Arts Centre, Turriff Academy, Aberdeen Lemon Tree
4/1992: (performer) BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
3/1992: (club performance) WATER & LIGHT, NVA Blast Off, The Arches, Glasgow
3/1992: (choreographer) LIFT, Dancebase, Edinburgh
10-11/1991: (performer) Liz Rankine, OOOH!, Perth Scone, Aberdeen Lemon Tree, Oxford Pegasus, Bristol Arnolfini
10/1991: (club performance) (FLOWER) KING, Network, Paisley
8/1991: (club performance) GLASS, Desert Storm, Easterhouse
8/1991: (director and performer) ADAM AND EVE, Tron Changing House, Glasgow
6/1991: (performance) Eggh, TEXT FOR LOVE, Glasgow School of Art
4/1991: (performer) BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
3/1991: (performance) KAFKA'S THE BURROW, {with Vincent Vaseur} \ Gianni Piacentinni's Living Room Project, Glasgow
2/1991: (performer) Liz Rankine: OOOH!, Glasgow Third Eye
12/1990: (choreography) TURNING, SPINNING AND HOPPING, ID, People's Palace, Glasgow
11/1990: (performed lecture) WEARING CLOTHES, MA Design, Glasgow School of Art
10/1990: (performer) Manact: THE SWEATLODGE, Tramway Theatre, Glasgow
9/1990: (performer & production assistant / model) Test Department: THE SECOND COMING, St Rollox, Glasgow
8/1990: (filmmaker) SILENT (16mm), Edinburgh Film Festival and Glasgow Film Theatre
5/1990: (performer) Peter McCaughey: THE CLASSIC BLUE LAGOON, Glasgow
4/1990: (performer) BELTANE FIRE FESTIVAL, Calton Hill, Edinburgh
11/1989-09/1990: (resident artist) UFO Club, Tin Pan Alley, Glasgow [venue torched]
8/1987: (performance) THE RAIN, The Edge, Edinburgh Fringe

Kenneth Davidson

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