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An excerpt from the logbook for “Kerogen Voices”

— Once it was a rural “paradise” island, today it is a rapidly growing city-state with consequent increase in energy needs. —

Posted on February 26, 2020March 26, 2020
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A note on human-made earthquakes

Notes on Kerogen (working title), a dive into the causes and effects of man-made earthquakes, using science and mythology as guides.

Posted on February 23, 2020March 26, 2020
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Upstairs Geology 50/50

Winner of the ZKB Acknowledgment Prize 2019- August 2019, Zürcher Theatrespektakel, Switzerland
Theatre Performance, 40min in the evening & Ongoing Installation in the daylight

Posted on August 22, 2019February 29, 2020
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  • audio
  • curation
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Blurry Memories, Corridor Conversations and Boxed Obsolete Media: A Research Space

The research space gathers notes, gossip and archival document gravitating around the history of experimental theatre in Amsterdam.

Posted on June 23, 2019March 29, 2020
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Song of a Bird: The Choir

October 2017, COMETOGETHER 4. Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam, Audio-Installation (ongoing 10-minute audio installation)

Posted on January 22, 2019March 19, 2020
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A few words from a son of a bird trapper.

Jimmy Grima reflects on the inspiration behind Nassaba: Song of a Bird (2018).

Posted on October 22, 2018March 26, 2020
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Nassaba: Song of a Bird

In Nassaba: Song of A Bird, Jimmy Grima follows his father with a camera to the fields on the Maltese rocky coasts, where until recently he went to catch migratory birds.

Posted on October 12, 2018March 29, 2020
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Upstairs Geology VII

My reclaimed word for the 21st century is Liquid- specifically starting from thinking about my own life and attitude to fixity.

Posted on June 22, 2018April 28, 2020
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Upstairs Geology VI

An installation on Angels and Liquids, how these two universes collide, and our attempt to control the mess they make when put together.

Posted on March 22, 2018March 29, 2020
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  • Malti

Xatt is-Sajjieda, Marsaxlokk

On the 29th of October, The Windrose Project will be inaugurated the installation of a large-scale weather-vane in Marsaxlokk. This took place at Xatt is-Sajjieda, next to the tourist information office. In collaboration with the Marsaxlokk Local Council, we created the inauguration event.

Posted on November 22, 2017March 25, 2020
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Upstairs Geology II

During the week leading to the 7th October 2017, we adapted Upstairs Geology-I to an unconverted construction site in Strait Street, Valletta, Malta.

Posted on October 7, 2017April 28, 2020
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Upstairs Geology I

Upstairs Geology I, Performance Installation, 20 min. June 2017, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,

Posted on June 1, 2017March 17, 2020
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Theatre Fiction Machine

An interactive tour for students to experience different elements of theatre.

Posted on February 22, 2017March 24, 2020
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Ma Rridx Immur

Council Malta. Ma Rridx Immur is written by Leanne Ellul. Featuring Ruth Borg, Ryan Cutajar, Marta Vella and Josette Ciappara. Directed by Jimmy Grima.


Posted on October 22, 2015April 28, 2020
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  • the windrose project

The Legend of the Four Winds

A tale of how the winds we know came to be.

Posted on September 23, 2015March 15, 2020
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The Windrose Project

A multiple site research linking four geographical points around the islands of Malta and Gozo.

Posted on February 22, 2015June 13, 2020
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DUN KARM

A performance installation to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Malta’s national poet Dun Karm Psaila.

Posted on February 22, 2015March 27, 2020
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The New Educators: Art, Dance and Imagination

The implementation of creative theatre and art workshops for students of  4 Learning Support Centres in Malta. During these workshops, held at the school’s premises, improvisation, devising and games were the working methods adopted to […]

Posted on February 22, 2014March 24, 2020
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L-Iblah

Year 2013 short film
duration: 10 minutes

Posted on October 22, 2013March 25, 2020
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EUR:908

A dance project on film (2011) that reflects on the Maltese pastime of sitting inside vehicles at various locations around the island.

Posted on February 22, 2013March 25, 2020
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Rytmii Vitae

A performance installation (Malta Fine Arts Museum, 2011) based on the work and social context of artist Antonio Sciortino.

Posted on February 22, 2013March 25, 2020
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Old Salt

An open-air theatrical work set and performed in Malta’s Grand Harbour, based on historical events and figures in the 18th and 19th century.

Posted on February 22, 2013March 29, 2020
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Mrs. Stork & the Mysterious Egg

A piece developed for ŻiguŻajg Arts Festival for Children & Young People, inviting human beings to leave behind the world of grown-ups and come on an adventure to a totally different world.

Posted on February 22, 2013March 24, 2020
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White Sea

White Sea explores the various male/female relations between an often absent Sea Captain and those women left in his wake.

Posted on July 22, 2012March 23, 2020
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Penelope: Dust In Our Awakened Dreams

A solo piece, a self-portrait, and a collaborative dance performance that is the story of a female figure exiting a world that lies between tragedy and fairytale.

Posted on June 22, 2012March 24, 2020
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echoes of the oracle: Writings on the Temples and the Sound

This collection of texts looks largely at the history and significance of the Hagar Qim Temples, and puts the Oracle event organised on site by the rubberbodies collective in 2012 into context.

Posted on April 22, 2012March 29, 2020
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Oracle

A 90-minute silent electronic music concert in Ħaġar Qim Megalithic Temples, a site of World Heritage value.

Posted on March 22, 2012March 24, 2020
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-hEx: inverting geometry

Science in the City festival commission (2012): an interactive video and performance installation exploring auxetic properties and aesthetics.

Posted on February 22, 2012March 29, 2020
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Woven Threads Recounting the creative process of Penelope: Dust in our awakened dreams

An intimate book recounting the conflict, desire, emotion, forgotten thoughts, secrets and transformations that took place between Athanasia Kanellopoulou and the rubberbodies collective during the creation of the solo performance Penelope: Dust in our awakened dreams.

Posted on February 22, 2012March 29, 2020
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Ratio

A 5-minute video and movement installation commissioned by Malta Design Week 2011, exploring geometrical forms of the Golden Ratio.

Posted on October 1, 2011March 29, 2020
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rubberbodies: a trajectory of an artist collective in Malta

A publication presenting the collective’s early methodologies, devising techniques and the notation used to create performances.

Posted on February 22, 2011March 29, 2020
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The Liquid Shark Tooth

A 3-minute video installation featured as part of Birgufest in 2011, exploring a superstition about shark tooth fossils held by Maltese sailors.

Posted on February 22, 2011March 29, 2020
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Lore of the Sea

Malta Maritime Museum. 9-10-11 September 2011. Duration: durational piece ‘Lore of the Sea’ is a stylised abstract theatre-cum-mime performance created in collaboration with Heritage Malta at the Maritime Museum. A project merging art, history, and […]

Posted on February 22, 2011March 24, 2020
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100 : Ave | Eva | Summer | Winter (2010)

A dark and surreal non-verbal visual theatre performance exploring the subjects of love and gender.

Posted on November 22, 2010April 27, 2020
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A Revisitation of ‘Grace u Rofflu’

An abridged version of ‘Grace u Rofflu’ adapted for performance at the Draft of the National Cultural Policy launch event in Malta.

Posted on February 22, 2010March 23, 2020
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Grace | Rofflu

The performance, Grace and Rofflu, supposes a seemingly typical relationship between two Mediterraneans that flies from the epitome of love to the nightmare of domestic abuse.

Posted on September 19, 2009March 6, 2020

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