Pearson/Brookes represents the on-going long term collaboration between Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson; their collective proposals and theories; and the performance works they produce.

As individuals their work has both encompassed and engaged an array of media and disciplines, within the development of an innovative artistic and performance practice spanning decades. They met in Cardiff, and first worked together, on Brith Gof's 'Gododdin' in 1988.

Pearson/Brookes is dedicated to the pursuit of experimental strategies and practice within the form, function and placement of performance; and their practice constitutes performance as social enquiry and action rather than simple artistic reflection.

saints : Context specific ensemble performance work; presented in Cardiff, Wales, 2005. Conceived and created by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson, and performed in collaboration with an ensemble of colleagues.

who are you looking at ? : Context specific performance and installation work; presented in Cardiff, Wales, 2004. Conceived, created and performed by Mike Brookes, Mike Pearson and Ed Thomas.

rain dogs : Context specific performance work; presented in Cardiff, Wales, 2002. Conceived, created and performed by Mike Brookes, Mike Pearson and Ed Thomas.

polis : A large scale performance work; premiered in Cardiff, Wales, 2001. Conceived and created by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson, and performed in collaboration with an ensemble of colleagues, associates and facilitators.

carrying Lyn : A context specific performance event; commissioned and produced for 'arguments for the city', Chapter, Cardiff, Wales, 2001. Conceived and created by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson, and performed in collaboration with a small ensemble of colleagues.

like a pelican in the wilderness [towards the north : act 1.2] : A context specific performance work; commissioned for the 'Restless Gravity' festival, Aberystwyth, Wales, 2000. Conceived and created by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson, and performed in collaboration with a small ensemble of colleagues and associates.

[works of progress] just a little bit of history repeating : An artists residency presentation; commissioned and produced by Chapter, Cardiff 1999; and subsequently restaged and presented in Germany. Conceived and created by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson, and performed in collaboration with a transient ensemble of colleagues and associates.

body of evidence : A site and context specific performance event; performed within an open car park in the Butetown area of Cardiff docks 1998. Conceived, created and performed by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson.

the man who ate his boots : A performance and installation work; originally performed in Aberystwyth 1998; and subsequently re-staged and presented within Wales. Conceived, created and performed by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson.

the first five miles : A large scale site and context specific performance event; performed across the open hill top of Mynydd Bach, Trefenter 1998. Conceived, created and performed by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson; and realised in collaboration with Radio Ceredigion and BBC Resources.

dead men's shoes : A performance and installation work; originally performed within the Welsh Maritime Museum, Cardiff 1997; and subsequently re-staged and presented within Wales and Brazil. Conceived, created and performed by Mike Brookes and Mike Pearson.

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

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