Biography

Claire Hind and Gary Winters collaborate on visual exhibitions, live performance pieces for the city and for the studio, gallery or museum; they also make Super 8mm film shorts, printed artworks and boxed archives that slip between performance documentation and artefact. Their collaboration encounters the relationship between writing, play and performance and the possibilities of slippage between the self and character.

Claire Hind is Associate Professor in Theatre and Performance at York St John University with a PhD in performance practice from the University of Leeds.

Gary Winters is Co-artistic Director of performance company Lone Twin. Celebrated for creating a broad range of projects, from theatrical production to participatory public events, the company's work is regularly shown across the world to popular and critical acclaim.

Performances, Films, and Exhibitions:

• 2019: Lost in a Sea of Glass and Tin
  York Theatre Royal
• 2018: Dream Yards
  Performance for NYC at Flux Factory Long Island City
• 2017: The Heaps
  Roving geometric shapes as visual street performance
• 2017: Lost in a Sea of Glass and Tin
  Artists Residency and performance at The Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago.
• 2016 Five Dead Acts Five Dead Cats
  Artists Residency and performance at The Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago.
• 2015: Crying in the Dark
  An overnight karaoke performance from sunrise to sunset at the conference Dark Sound Destructive Pop, Falmouth University
• 2015: Gillygate Sleeps
  A portrait of the street in Super 8mm Film A 24-hour durational task of documenting the street
• 2013: Roy of the Dead / Day of the O
  A Roy Orbison Zombie Walk - Where the dead serenade the living
• 2012: Dream Yards – Studio Performance
  A performance about flying, lucidity and Yorkshire dreams
• 2012: Dream Yards – Walking Tour
  A meander through snickelways, ginnels and yards
• 2012: Kong Lear
  Hybrid Heavy Weight (Freud would have a field day) Super 8mm Film
• 2012: Kong Lear Archive
  Limited Edition of 100. A boxed set of 54 pages of mixed media; images and performance texts, including a DVD of the Super 8mm film Kong Lear. For Sale here
• 2011: Ghost Track
  "a wry, moving exploration of Freud and psychoanalysis. Funny and sad by turns, and thought provoking throughout" Carol Seiger, Director, Freud Museum London

Papers and keynote presentations:

• Keynote: Kong Lear, 2012. Queen Mary, University of London. Conference; Monstrosity and the City.
• Paper: The Kong Lear Archive, 2012. The University of Kent; TaPRA
• Paper: The Ecologies of Kong Lear, 2013. The University of Aberystwyth. Seminar; Ecologies and Environment; Professor Carl Lavery.
• Paper: Dream Yards – The Delusionary Archive, 2013. The Norweigian Theatre Academy Seminar; Archive and the Body
• Paper: Crying, Crying, Crying, Crying...The affective resonance and repetition of Roy Orbison in Performance, 2014. Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel, Germany. Seminar; Repetition and Affection.

Publications

Books:

Hind, C, & Winters G. (2020 ed.) Embodying the Dead: Writing, Playing, Performing. MacMillan Education.

• Hind, C, & Winters, G. (2015) Let's Make a World: A World to Be Alive In. Performance Research, 20, Taylor and Francis
• Hind, C, & Winters, G. (2016) Dream Yards. Performance Research, 21, Taylor and Francis
• Hind, C, & Winters, G, (2016) The Crying Channel. In: Kartsaki, Eirini, (ed.) On Repetition : Writing, Performance & Art. Intellect
• Hind, C, & Winters, G, (2016) You Say, We Say in Schwaegermann, M & Ely, K, (eds.) Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance. Brooklyn Arts Press
• Hind, C, & Winters, G. (2019) Les Masses noires. Subversion d’un concept du xviiie siècle ou La transformation de la Page noire de Laurence Sterne en fenêtre sur le paysage shandynien, une oeuvre de Gary Winters et Claire Hind. Theatre Public Journal

Gary and Claire are also artistic and academic leads for York St John University on a 3-year research partnership with the Norwegian Theatre Academy, NYU, MIT and Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design Kiel. The Partnerships produce a series of seminars and conferences around the topic of Archive, Memory and Performance and a collaborative publication.