CFS Soho Workshop Weekenders - Tim Spooner

Performing with the Non-Human

The weekend will be a series of experiments looking at expanding the way props, objects, costumes, puppets and any non-human things might be used in performance.

Exploring a variety of objects and materials to find their surprises, possibilities and unpredictabilities.

Finding a strong relationship between performer and objects.

Listening to their desires.

Learning how to co-perform with them.

Tim Spooner works in performance, collage, painting and sculpture. His work uses materials and objects in ways that reveal unexpected properties, aiming to open up perspectives beyond the human scale. Fundamentally interested in unpredictability, his work is an exercise in balancing control with a lack of it in the handling of the materials he is working with.

Since 2010 he has created a series of increasingly complex live works centred around the revelation of “life” in material. Alongside, and in relation to these projects, he has produced a continuous stream of painted and collaged images.


Art Work John Lee Bird
Photo Credit Claire Haigh