I founded Steam Control in 2006 as a platform for bringing together writers, sound and media artists, teachers and community workers to create literature, media and events, with a focus on experimentation, collaboration, disability and mental health.
With the help and support of writer and teacher Rebekah Lattin-Rawstrone, sound designer Steven Brown, web designer Daniel Conaghan and writer Cris Teixeira, the groundbreaking CastWords project was born: a fusion of new writing, soundscape and video art.
CastWords was devised as a versatile and evolving multimedia form for educational/social support settings; radio; theatrical presentation; gallery exhibition and installation. CastWords pieces have been screened and played widely, including:
- in a selection by Shape for the Film/Video/Performance Retrospective 1960-2010 @ Wimbledon Space, 2010
- on Resonance Radio, Radio Peckham and The Hancock Hour
- featured in a 2-hour Steam Control event during the X’o8 Festival at the BFI Southbank
- on show in the V&A’s Collaborators: UK Design for Performance exhibition, organised by the Society of British Theatre Designers
- webcast as part of Get London Reading 2008, organised by Booktrust
- featured by Southwark Arts Forum at Nolia’s gallery, Siobhan Davies Dance and Peckham Space
- in the Sassoon Gallery for Steam Control’s live/multimedia event WHY WON’T YOU TELL ME? at the 2008 Peckham Literary Festival,
- Whirligig Cinema @ Pangea Project, The Big Chill and the Sound In Vision Festival at Clapham Picturehouse
- in the subterranean vaults of Shunt, and at the Roxy Bar & Screen for Steam Control’s live/multimedia event A SUDDEN LEAP FORWARD, at Boundless 2008
- at the Left in Vision show at the international Marxism Festival 2008/09/10 & 2012
Please contact me if you would like to screen or play any Steam Control work, or explore possibilities of new collaborations, commissions or projects.
A Wet Night in Mayfair
‘Words so real they can’t be true’ – an isolated woman’s light-drenched liquid fantasies turn from pleasure into poison… 5’52” voice: Karina Jones words: Nicola Field soundscape: Peter…
All She Wanted was Someone to Love
All She Wanted was Someone to Love 7’36” There was this man who said Come up north! He said: Come up, come soon I want to show…
I Belong
text © Cristina Teixeira 2007 soundscape © Fari Bradley 2007 voices: Clare Cameron, Gustave Ferrier, Nicola Field
It Does You Good to be Told Off on Your Birthday
text and visuals © Nicola Field 2007soundscape © Fari Bradley 2007voice: Clare CameronSteam Control 2008 She is not really the one they want, Not if they had the…
Planet Earth
Planet Earth 7’31” ‘Days that open out onto one another, like rooms in a museum…’ Sensory overload and a dizzying wait for recovery: a train trip into the…
Take Uncle John
text © Nicola Field 2007 soundscape © Steven Brown 2007 voice: Clare Cameron
Tell Me Tonight
text © Nicola Field 2007 soundscape © Steven Brown 2007 voice: Clare Cameron
The Dead Dog
text © Nicola Field 2007 soundscape © Steven Brown 2007 voice: Clare Cameron