NEWS

‘Pretty Doomed’, an unconventional art fair & exhibition presented by Ugly Duck & Queer Art Projects
Preview 6-9pm Thursday 12 October

Eastbourne pier Public Art Commission
Art in the public realm celebrating the character and urban fabric of our neighbourhood
Commissioned by Devonshire Collective

Public Art Commission
Celebrating the Turner Prize 2023
Commissioned by Eastbourne Alive

New Work Fund artist’s announced
Jerwood Arts

OPEN HOUSE FESTIVAL
Pop-up exhibition at Fire Station E6
Screening Liquid Architecture (2023)

Transformative Futures
Camden Art Centre

CAN Summer Exhibition
Tower Gallery E13
Preview 23 June 7pm

Liquid Architecture
Newham Kaleidoscope
London Festival of Architecture

Purchase A Love Affair
Edited by Lou-Atessa Marcellin

Published by Theatrum Mundi

qap.digital
BUY QUEER ART

Camden Art Centre
Artist Syllabus Facilitator
8 October 2022 – 24 June 2023

Theatrum-Mundi Masterclass
Choreographing the City
11-12th March 2023

Hypha Studios presents 56 Conduit Street
Frieze Week 2022

BIO

Adam Moore is a transdisciplinary artist from east London of Caribbean and European heritage. Using choreographic, embodied, transdisciplinary processes in post-studio and socially engaged contexts he examines the intersectional discourses, technologies, and embodiments of sustainability, peaking at multimedia performance installations, public artworks, and interventions in the public realm.

Still life (2023), Adam’s public artwork for Eastbourne pier commissioned by Devonshire Collective and Eastbourne Alive celebrating the character and urban fabric of Eastbourne and the 2023 Turner Prize will be unveiled in October. A new choreography developed at the pier with communities in Eastbourne will be performed as part of the commission.

Adam’s solo exhibition and performance series, Bright Dynasty, was presented by Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, in 2022. Bright Dynasty (2020-) is about an ever expanding sense of being at home on different scales, spectrums and frequencies, within the universe, landscape, architectures and dwellings, with other people, ecologies, within oneself and beyond. In 2023 he was awarded the Jerwood New Work Fund to develop and produce a new performance installation with new work in sculpture, print, and live sound composition with forthcoming national and international public presentations.

A Trinity Laban Leverhulme Performing Arts Scholar with an MFA in Dance Creative Practice, teaching nationally and internationally he is currently Associate Lecturer in the Department of Architecture & Visual Arts, School of Architecture, Computer Science and Engineering teaching on the BA and MA Fine Art programmes at the University of East London. Prior to this he was Associate Lecturer for Contemporary Performance Practice: Experimental Arts and Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2022-23).

A CONSTELLATIONS 2020-21 artist researching and developing collaborative and socially engaged practice with UP Projects and Flat Time House, Adam has established collaborations with international socially engaged creative networks innovating across events and interventions in the public realm, heritage sites, digital platforms and print publications including Theatrum Mundi’s Choreographing the City (2021-23) and Diaspore Projects’ A Love Affair (2023), Daniel Lie and Jupiter Artland’s Rotten TV  (2021-22), The Hildegard Von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions (2021-), and Takeaway (2022), founding the literary and spatial practice collective Readings & Rituals (2022). He has been part of Dance Art Journal, an online independent dance magazine that writes about underrepresented dance makers, since 2019.

Adam co-designed and facilitated the syllabus for Camden Art Centre’s Transformative Futures Youth Collective 2021-22 programme with artist Madeline Pledge, collaborating with Becky Lyon to design and facilitate the 2022-23 programme, co-producing and co-curating the youth collective’s gallery takeover at the end of each programme. He designed and facilitated placemaking workshops for the inaugural Theatrum-Mundi 2022 Cohort programme in London and NN Contemporary Art’s 2022 Sensing Place and Placemaking Research Programme in Northampton, as well as facilitating Professional Morning Class at Independent Dance. For Destination Unknown 2023 Adam was invited to co-design and facilitate the residency artists’ intensive exploration of sound, body, and space co-teaching with Lotte Van Gelder and Raviv Gankrow in the decommissioned Philips factory in Roermond, NL.

Recent screenings of Adam’s video works have included the 2023 London Festival of Architecture and Open City’s 2023 Open House Festival.

Recent awards and residencies include the a-n 2022 Time Space Money bursary, the 2022 g39 UNITe artist studio residency, ACE funded 2021 Pleasure Ground residency at Ingestre Orangery, and a 2021 Jerwood Arts bursary.

Adam’s work is distributed by Queer Art Projects, and has been supported, produced and exhibited by Arts Council England, g39, Cardiff, Hypha Studios, Theatrum-Mundi, Jupiter Artland, Kunstraum, London, Ingestre Orangery, London Borough of Newham, London Borough of Waltham Forest, Haarlem Artspace, and more.

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am a transdisciplinary artist from east London of Caribbean and European heritage. Using choreographic, embodied, transdisciplinary processes in post-studio and socially engaged contexts I examine the intersectional discourses, technologies, and embodiments of sustainability. Working with dance1 I speak in a range of artistic languages and strategies moving freely across architecture, ceramics, design, painting, photography, sculpture, sound, video, and text peaking at multimedia performance installation.  Sprawling beyond institutional walls my social work with diverse groups across human rights, arts and culture non-profit and government welfare informs my approach to art making, collaboration, and sustainability2, manifesting as public artworks and interventions in the public realm. Working at various scales with different groups of people I find alternative ways of thinking, doing, and being that soften hardened institutions stewarding life to thrive.

1I dance with the senses and the movement of attention, embodying life’s shifting intimacies and pluriformities: material, social, and spatial dimensions in the cosmos, lands and waters, architectures and dwellings, ecologies, with other people, within one’s self and beyond. Dancing is essential for my work, predating and permeating my formal studies in choreographic, embodied, improvisatory, and somatic dance practices.

I am a transdisciplinary artist who dances and works with dance. Moving freely across art forms I apply choreographic, embodied and sociopolitical processes for dancing to architecture, ceramics, design, drawing, video, photography, print, painting, sculpture, sound and text. Dancing with people, life forms, materials, and structures in the places I live and the spaces I move through, I synthesise sensory and spiritual dimensions of self-with-the-world-and-with-others, amplifying life’s intimate pluriformities touching to reveal different ways of living that soften and transform hardened institutions, stewarding life to thrive“.

CONTACT ME

studio@adammoorecreate.com
@adameastlondon

PRESS

Readings & Rituals: Creativity in Nature on a Floating Park
Biomatrix Newsletter

Ten Minutes with Adam Moore
Open Space Contemporary

A Place for New Perspectives
a-n The Artists Information Company

Embodying Otherness Choreogaphy Report
Theatrum-Mundi Cohort 2022 Displacement

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Jerwood UNITe 2022
g39, Cardiff

Solo shows

2022

Bright Dynasty
Phoenix Art Space, Brighton, UK

2021

Bright Dynasty
Jerwood Arts and Kunstraum, London

2020

Long Play Liberation
Newham Town Hall, Old Stratford Town Hall, London

Two person & group shows

2023

Pretty Doomed
qap.digital and Ugly Duck

Open City London Open House Festival
Firestation E6

CAN Summer Exhibition
Tower Gallery E13

Newham Kaleidoscope
London Festival of Architecture

2022

Hypha Presents 56 Conduit Street
London Frieze Week

Jerwood UNITe 2022
g39, Cardiff

228 Chingford Mount
Hypha Studios & London Borough of Waltham Forest

Commissions

2023

(forthcoming) Eastbourne Turner Prize wraparound public art commission
Devonshire Collective

2022

Readings & Rituals
Independent Dance, Siobhan Davies Studios
Avalanche
qap.digital launch, Reference Point 180, London
A window widening open
UP Projects, London
Readings & Rituals
Royal Docks Floating Garden & Good Hotel London
Newham Word Festival 2022
Iris, Earth Day Readings
Large Glass Gallery, London
The Water Garden
The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions
Readings & Rituals
My Lady Garden florist, London

2021

DisSolution
Rotten TV (Daniel Lie) and Jupiter Artland
Supercritical, A Psalm
Theatrum Mundi
Diaphanous
Ingestre Orangery
Umbra, Penumbra, Antumbra
Constellations 2020-21 Flat Time House
Twelve Live Performance Artists – Twelve Artworks of our Time
London Performance Studio
Long Play Liberation Transmission
The Place, London

2020

Leave Your Vessels
The Yard, Hackney Wick

2019

Leave Your Vessels
Guest Projects
Leave Your Vessels
The Yard, Hackney Wick
Maybe there will be Stars
Haarlem Artspace
Unanthemic
RAW Lab (Bow Arts)

2018

Unanthemic
RAW Lab (Bow Arts)
Healing Forwards
Laban Centre, London
Healing Forwards
Ellen Terry Building, Coventry University

2016

Parallel Field
Limehouse Town Hall, London, and Julie’s room in Aarhus, Denmark
Monumental
Siobhan Davies Dance, London

2015

Unearthed
London Topophobia 12

Learning

2023

Associate Lecturer
BA Fine Art
Department of Architecture & Visual Arts, School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering
University of East London
Destination Unknown 2023
Destination Unknown, Roermond, NL
Devonshire Youth Collective
Devonshire Collective
Associate Lecturer
BA Contemporary Performance Practice:
Experimental Arts and Performance
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Transformative Futures 2022-23
Camden Art Centre
Dance Art Journal Guest Writers Workshop
Dance Art Journal

2022

Associate Lecturer
BA Contemporary Performance Practice:
Experimental Arts and Performance
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Transformative Futures 2022-23
Camden Art Centre
Guest 1-2-1 Artist Advisor
Art Quest
Embodying Otherness: Architectural Tissue
Boston University
Embodying Otherness: Architectural Tissue
Theatrum-Mundi Cohort 2022: Displacement
Professional Morning Class
Independent Dance
Transformative Futures 2021-22
Camden Art Centre
Visiting Practitioner
Contemporary Performance Practice
Boston University
Visiting Practitioner
BA Experimental Arts and Performance
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

2021

a-n rural assembly
Haarlem Artspcace
Professional Morning Class
Independent Dance
Youth Collective Online
Camden Art Centre
Movement Class w/ inklingroom presents: Adam Moore
Netil Radio

Talks

2022

Dancing Through Crises – Increasing diversity in the UK freelance dance scene under the combined pressures of Brexit and Covid-19
Dance Department of the School of Arts, University of Roehampton, in collaboration with University College London and the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria 
Gender and Performance
Kings College London
Transmission: Parliament
Sheffield Hallam University Fine Art

2021

Constellations ° 2022 Open Call Event
UP Projects
a-n Assembly Wirksworth: Rural
Haarlem Artspace and a-n The Artist’s Information Company
After language, before gesture
Performance @ King’s, King’s College London
Dancing Through Crises – Increasing diversity in the UK freelance dance scene under the combined pressures of Brexit and Covid-19
Dance Department of the School of Arts, University of Roehampton, in collaboration with University College London and the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
Choreographing New Futures
The Place Theatre, London

Writing / Publications

2023

The Minutes Volume 2
The Hildegard Von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions

Supercritical, A Psalm
A Love Affair
Diaspore Projects and ATLAS Projectos

2022

Spell of abundance/The magician
TAKEAWAY 022 – ABUNDANCE
Affirmation
Phoenix Art Space
Rust
Large Glass Gallery
All that glitters is not gold
Theatrum-Mundi Editions, Encounters
Embodying Otherness Choreography Report
Theatrum-Mundi Cohort 2022 Displacement
The triangle game
Hypha Studios & London Borough of Waltham Forest

2021

Groundmarks Project
Dance Art Journal
Smithson, Interrupted
Dance Art Journal

2020

Hot Mess
Dance Art Journal

2019

Screensaver Series
Dance Art Journal
The Elsewhen Series
Dance Art Journal

Awards & Residencies

2023

Jerwood New Work Fund
Jerwood Arts

2022

UNITe
Jerwood Arts and g39 Artist Studio Residency, Cardiff

TIME SPACE MONEY bursary
a-n The Artists Information Company

2021

Pleasure Ground
Ingestre Orangery, Arts Council England

Percolate Residency
Dance Art Journal at
Siobhan Davies Dance

CONSTELLATIONS 2020-21
UP Projects & Flat Time House

2020

Jerwood Bursary

2019

Collectivism Residency
Haarlem Artspace

2015-2017

Leverhulme Arts Scholarship
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

2015

Month of Making
Clarence Mews

Education

MFA Dance Creative Practice
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
2015-2017

BA Hons Dance, Theatre and Professional Practice
Coventry University
2007-2010

2 Human Rights, Non-profit, Social Wellbeing

2018-2021

Civil Service Executive Officer
DWP
Supporting, coaching and managing relationships with vulnerable customers with a range of complex circumstances navigating Universal Credit, using solution focussed coaching and multi-agency support planning, to facilitate customers searching for suitable and enriching professional development opportunities and sustainable employment

2007-2019

Programme Lead
Curtains Up!
Collaboratively planning, producing and delivering a multi-stranded programme of professionally facilitated and peer-led creative learning opportunities for 13-17-year olds (working as a volunteer with Curtains Up! prior to this since 2004), facilitating and empowering them to become the source of cultural activity. Creating a range of age appropriate evaluation tools enabled young people to contribute to programme and policy development, improving the quality of the programme and its relevance in meeting their needs

2016-2018

Observatory Coordinator, Astronomy Education and Events
Royal Observatories Greenwich
Planning and delivering a range of education and public programme events throughout the year, coordinating Science Learning Department classes, courses, workshops and events; managing resources and relationships with families, informal groups, schools and visitors

March – June 2017

Interim Company & Digital Coordinator
East London Dance
Planning and implementing East London Dance’s social media strategy, creating engaging digital content across the breadth of the organisations programmes and events appropriate to brand and mission; supporting with finance and operational systems and administration

2015-2017

Founder, StagE3
Fern Street Family Centre
Collaboratively designing and facilitating performing arts programmes for KS2 and KS3 in Tower Hamlets, increasing their access to creative opportunities delivered by dance, theatre and music professionals

2014-2017

Coordinator
GrowTH Tower Hamlets Night Shelter
Collaboratively coordinating all aspects of operational delivery including volunteer training and management, facilities, hospitality, catering and guest and volunteer health & safety

Sept 2014 – Aug 2015

Administration Manager and PA to the Director
Working alongside the Director, Deputy Director and senior staff: responsible for strategic planning and operational management across all areas of the organisation including administration, HR, personnel and resources, with opportunities to collaborate on development, sales and communications, managing all associated budgets; line managing Volunteer Coordinator, Front of House Assistants, and volunteers, and their training and appraisals; Director’s diary management and regular correspondence with artists, arts professionals, and the Board of Directors; managing monitoring, reporting, evaluation and policy across the organisation; working with the public across the breadth of the organisations programmes and events.

2012-2014

Employment Programme Assistant
The Camden Society
Campaigning alongside adults with special educational needs and disabilities, working with and for them; collaboratively producing an accredited training programme for 16-25s, reporting on delivery across all strands of the programme, managing relationships with local and pan-London partners

2010-2012

Accommodation and Support Manager
YMCA Somerset Coast
In alignment with their changing needs, nurturing and supporting homeless young people 16-25 to gain essential skills for independent living. Collaboratively coordinating multi-agency support plans providing essential and specialist services. Developing young people’s programme, monitoring and evaluating the range of courses and projects enhancing their well-being, skills, positive engagement and employability

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