Credits

About the Creator

BOP are Kathy Hinde and Teresa Dillon.

Kathy Hinde (UK) creates work, which combines audio and visual elements. Originally specializing in sculpture and composition, she uses various techniques to create video and site-specific installations (1000 Birds, Missing People, Soliloquy, Glass House), sound art (Waterbell, Vexations) and composition (Meteor Shower, 5 Haiku, BOP). Her work has been shown across the UK, Europe, China and South America. She regularly collaborates with contemporary musicians such as Agrare, Joby Burgess, Elysian Quartet and Matt Fairclough and she has worked with composers such as Joanna MacGregor and Stephen Montague and the international choregrapher Jin Xing. She is a member of the Bristol based collective; Polar Produce with whom she creates mixed media, location-specific performance and installation works (Measc, 2005; Taking Ground; 2006; Come Outside, 2007, OFFLOAD, 2007).

Teresa Dillon (IRE/UK) is an artist, researcher and director. Her interdisciplinary, mixed media work focuses on the exploration of the sociocultural and economic relations, behaviors and forms of communication, which emerge within and between different systems or ecologies. She specializes in creating location-based, performance- sound installations such as ‘Star Gone Tones’ (2005) and ‘seeing at a distance’ (2008). Since 1999, she has also worked as a live art performer, creating location-specific works with companies such as Pearson and Brookes et al (2000-01) and as part of the duo Paul and Paula (2003-04).

Alongside her individual practice, Teresa established and currently runs the Bristol based collective Polar Produce (including Kathy Hinde, Philip O’Dwyer and Maarten de Laat). Through Polar Produce she co-organizes the OFFLOAD programme and makes location and site based, live art and installation works - ‘Measc’ (2005), ‘Taking Ground’ (2006) and ‘Come Outside’ (2007). In 2007, Teresa set up N.I.P. – New Interfaces for Performance a European touring network and research space for practitioners working and developing interfaces for live performance and interactive installation. Teresa’s work has been shown internationally, she has published on topics such as creative collaboration, new media and design and works as a freelance producer and lectures at Cambridge University.