— Once it was a rural “paradise” island, today it is a rapidly growing city-state with consequent increase in energy needs. —
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.
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
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.
Song of a Bird: The Choir
October 2017, COMETOGETHER 4. Frascati Theatre, Amsterdam, Audio-Installation (ongoing 10-minute audio installation)
A few words from a son of a bird trapper.
Jimmy Grima reflects on the inspiration behind Nassaba: Song of a Bird (2018).
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.
Upstairs Geology VII
My reclaimed word for the 21st century is Liquid- specifically starting from thinking about my own life and attitude to fixity.
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.
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.
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.
Upstairs Geology I
Upstairs Geology I, Performance Installation, 20 min. June 2017, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,
Theatre Fiction Machine
An interactive tour for students to experience different elements of theatre.
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.
The Legend of the Four Winds
A tale of how the winds we know came to be.
The Windrose Project
A multiple site research linking four geographical points around the islands of Malta and Gozo.
DUN KARM
A performance installation to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Malta’s national poet Dun Karm Psaila.
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 […]
L-Iblah
Year 2013 short film
duration: 10 minutes
EUR:908
A dance project on film (2011) that reflects on the Maltese pastime of sitting inside vehicles at various locations around the island.
Rytmii Vitae
A performance installation (Malta Fine Arts Museum, 2011) based on the work and social context of artist Antonio Sciortino.
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.
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.
White Sea
White Sea explores the various male/female relations between an often absent Sea Captain and those women left in his wake.
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.
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.
Oracle
A 90-minute silent electronic music concert in Ħaġar Qim Megalithic Temples, a site of World Heritage value.
-hEx: inverting geometry
Science in the City festival commission (2012): an interactive video and performance installation exploring auxetic properties and aesthetics.
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.
Ratio
A 5-minute video and movement installation commissioned by Malta Design Week 2011, exploring geometrical forms of the Golden Ratio.
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.
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.
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 […]
100 : Ave | Eva | Summer | Winter (2010)
A dark and surreal non-verbal visual theatre performance exploring the subjects of love and gender.
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.
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.