Performance Research Centre
Niki Woods
Niki has worked with award winning interdisciplinary art group Blast Theory since 1997 and became an Associate Artist in 2006. She has worked and collaborated on projects such as Kidnap, 10 Backwards, Desert Rain, Uncle Roy All Around You, Can You See Me Now?, Day of the Figurines, Ulrike and Eamon Compliant and the more recent I'd Hide You.
Niki has toured nationally and internationally with Blast Theory, Plane Performance and Reckless Sleepers and has collaborated with various artists for conferences, festivals and symposiums. Niki is a long-standing member of Manchester based Plane Performance. Their new project Three Sisters will tour from February 2013.
Niki has developed and collaborated on mobile phone projects for various events and platforms from Manchester's Larkin' About to Let's Go Global .
Niki is a Lecture in Performance at the University of Salford and leads the Performance - Contemporary Practices pathway. She is a full member of the Performance Research Centre and has recently had an article published in Stimulus Respond entitled Captive and Captivated by Blast Theory's Kidnap.
Recently Niki was lead artist on the Space Invaders pervasive media project at Let's Go Global supported by Mediabox in 2011. She is part of the Flare Festival team of International contemporary performance. The first ever festival of new performance to involve graduates, emerging artists and professionals from Salford to Russia. This is a Biannual festival supported by Arts Council, MMU and the University of Salford, Zion Arts and Contact Theatre.
Projected Papers
Re-writing ‘Look Where You’re Going’, writing on Can You See Me Now? And the ‘act’ of walking and running. Proposal for The Performance Research Journal 17.2: ‘On Foot’.
