Claire Hind is a writer working across performance for live and mediated practice
Her scores for live performance are structurally composed from natural earth processes of deep time geology, their context tell stories through spoken word; fracturing language, disrupting meaning, challenging gendered spaces through word play with sentiment and humour. Claire’s film work, rich in dream imagery, explores the complexities of desire to rewrite playfully and politically, problematic, patriarchal figures from cultural history. Her walking art practice connects to scoring and her collaboration on the Ways to Wander projects have been instrumental in the international development of a culture of walking and experimental writing, walking and well-being. Claire also writes lyrics and performs electronic dance music with The Long Dead Stars, and makes experimental film shorts with Holiday Camp.
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![Claire strolls along a beach in Ravenscar.]()
The Long Dead Stars
Claire and composer Robert Wilsmore, collectively The Long Dead Stars, experience a deep listening to the natural environment, bringing together creative descriptions of how rocks move and become, through words and through the corporeal experience of EDM.
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![Family at a British holiday camp.]()
Holiday Camp
Claire and Alex Crowton collaborate as Holiday Camp because of their shared love of British holiday camp culture. The future is monorail.
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![Claire performing Field Recordings from the International Aloneness Institute]()
Field Recordings from the International Aloneness Institute
Claire’s solo performance mixes contemporary spoken word with humorous direct address, about the perceptions and prejudices of women who chose to, or find themselves to be alone.
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Kong Lear
Super 8mm Film capturing a portrait of the figure Kong Lear filmed in city sites of York and New York.
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Walking Art
I practice walking and scoring and make connections between walking and creative writing; mark making the page with prompts, invitations, instruction, recipes, guides, experimental poetry and spoken word.
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![Claire on Darwin's Boulders]()
Rock Channeling
Rocks have a connection to humans, animals, plants and the universe. They shape-shift and can tell us about Earth’s natural and industrial history and the practice of human labour; my ancestors worked in granite mines, in difficult conditions.
