Collaboration Archives | Hellen Burrough

Trauma Unit – Short film by Suka Off

Posted onAugust 31, 2014June 24, 2015Leave a comment

Short film collaboration with Suka Off/BFV, 2008

cast: Hellen Burrough, Maciej Dziaczko, Piotr Wegrzynski
camera: Marcin Dos
editing: Piotr Wegrzynski
music: Wajid Yaseen
lights: Maciej Dziaczko

New collaboration and upcoming performance dates

Posted onOctober 18, 2013June 24, 2015Leave a comment

In October and November I’ll be performing a new piece, as yet untitled, in collaboration with my real-life partner Phil Bedwell.

An intenseÂ exploration of the intimacies of lust and aggression, utilising jiu jitsu techniques and the text of A Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine DeÂ Saint-Point.

Phil and Hellen began collaborating last year when they worked on Marisa Carnesky’s Tarot Drome, their work together has combined Phil’s background in wrestling and martial arts with Hellen’s experience in live art to create highly physical pieces examiningÂ gestures of loving and fighting and the parallels between them.

This new performance hasÂ developed from a workshop run by Kira O’Reilly as part of DIY10. Over the three days of ‘Combative Manifestos’ they learnt techniques for both grappling and writing, and this performance evolved from those experiments with words and bodies.

This performance will be shown at:

Fighting for words – 24 October, London
Panic Sermons Act 2 – 17 November, London

Traumata summer performances – London Wonderground and Latitude

Posted onJune 24, 2013December 4, 2017Leave a comment

Upcoming performances:

+ Friday 12 July and Friday 2 August ‘In a nameless city’ – The Double R Club, part of London Wonderground.

+ Saturday 20th July ‘Carnesky’s Tarot Drome‘ – Latitude Festival

(Photo thanks to Juliet Shalam)

Departure (An Experiment in Human Salvage) – 25th October

Posted onSeptember 27, 2012June 24, 2015Leave a comment

Honoured to be appearing as a guest artist in Dominic Johnson’s Departure (An Experiment in Human Salvage) at Chelsea Theatre as part of the Sacred Season, on 25th October.

“Departure (An Experiment in Human Salvage) is a performance involving live tattooing on Dominic Johnsonâ€™s hands, carried out by the renowned tattoo artist Alex Binnie. The tattoos function as permanent archival documents of performance, and as art works in their own rights. Pain and the wound are therefore incidental to the production of a striking permanent image on the body â€“ in Departure as well as in tattooing as a traditional cultural practice more generally. How might disaster be represented or produced without recourse to sacred imagery? What might a new secular pantheon of catastrophic images look like? In Departure, the creation of a lasting image in performance mimics and explores the histories of tattooing and scarification as practices of body modification.

Departure includes live performances by three guest artists: Mouse, jamie lewis hadley, and Traumata (Hellen Burrough); sound design by Mark Peter Wright; and lighting design by Marty Langthorne.

Departure is a co-commission by Fierce and Chelsea Theatre. It received generous funding from Arts Council Englandâ€™s Grants for the Arts scheme.”