Cris Cheek
Encyclopedia
Cris Cheek is a British poet
, artist
, interdisciplinary performer and academic currently resident at Miami University
in Oxford, Ohio
. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society and the Writers Forum group of poets who met with regularity there. In 1981 he was a co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Between 1994-2005 he was based in the most easterly English town of Lowestoft
, before emigrating to the United States. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones). A large body of interdisciplinary performance writing was produced in collaboration with Kirsten Lavers under the author function Things Not Worth Keeping. He taught on the Performance Writing
course (1995-2002) at Dartington College of Arts
where he was a Research Fellow in interdisciplinary text (2000-2002). He lives on the plateau of the southwest Ohio River Valley, with his son.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, interdisciplinary performer and academic currently resident at Miami University
Miami University
Miami University is a coeducational public research university located in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the 10th oldest public university in the United States and the second oldest university in Ohio, founded four years after Ohio University. In its 2012 edition, U.S...
in Oxford, Ohio
Oxford, Ohio
Oxford is a city in northwestern Butler County, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern portion of the state. It lies in Oxford Township, originally called the College Township. The population was 21,943 at the 2000 census. This college town was founded as a home for Miami University. Oxford...
. Born in London in 1955, he lived and worked there until the early 1990s. One early influence was working alongside Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society and the Writers Forum group of poets who met with regularity there. In 1981 he was a co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Between 1994-2005 he was based in the most easterly English town of Lowestoft
Lowestoft
Lowestoft is a town in the English county of Suffolk. The town is on the North Sea coast and is the most easterly point of the United Kingdom. It is north-east of London, north-east of Ipswich and south-east of Norwich...
, before emigrating to the United States. His musical collaborations include Slant (a trio with Phillip Jeck and Sianed Jones). A large body of interdisciplinary performance writing was produced in collaboration with Kirsten Lavers under the author function Things Not Worth Keeping. He taught on the Performance Writing
Performance Writing
Performance Writing was pioneered at Dartington College of Arts in Devon, UK as a radical new approach to writing. It is a multi-modal approach which explores through artistic practice how writing interacts with other art forms and practices — visual art, sound art, time-based media, installation,...
course (1995-2002) at Dartington College of Arts
Dartington College of Arts
Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts institution near Totnes, Devon, South West England, it specialized in post-dramatic theatre, music, choreography, Performance Writing and visual performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this,...
where he was a Research Fellow in interdisciplinary text (2000-2002). He lives on the plateau of the southwest Ohio River Valley, with his son.
MC, CD and CD-R
- Crayon (NY), Widemouth (Baltimore)
- Little Magazine (Albany)
- Balsam Flex (London)
Critical articles
- "Reading and Writing: the Sites of Performance (http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/bergvall/cheek-reading-writing.html)
- On Bob Cobbing (British Electronic Poetry Centre, 2004)
- Giving Tongue published in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (Wesleyan University Press, 2003)
- Sky Tails: An Encryption of Dispersal published in Removed for Further Study: The Poetry of Tom Raworth, (The Gig, 2003)
- Implicit, Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance and Site Specificity (The Cherry On the Top Press, 2002)
External links
Further reading
- Robert Hampson, "cris cheek in manhatton" http://www.pores.bbk.ac.uk/1/Robert%20Hampson,%20'cris%20cheek%20in%20manhattan'.htm
- Peter Barry, Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court (2006)
- Andy Brown, Binary Myths: Conversations with Contemporary Poets (1998)
- cris cheek, "From a Performant" in The Fly on the Page (The Gig, 2004)
- cris cheek, "Giving Tongue" in Romana Huk, Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (2003)
- Andrew Duncan, The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry (2003)
- William R. Howe, "Punk as Poetry: cris cheek and his offset press collaborations"
- http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/radioradio/04_cris-cheek_Radio-Radio_NY_2003.mp3