kelly jayne jones
b.1980 London, UK
residing in Manchester, UK
selected exhibitions and commissions
24.02.16 collaborative performance with part wild horses mane on both sides and Petrit Halilaj, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, invited by Pedro Rocha
09.2015 – 12.2015 6-channel sound installation as part of Haris Epaminonda exhibition XVI at Le Plateau FRAC de l'Ile de France Paris
19.06.15 sound installation multiplying reflections, surpassing 20 kHz invited by MUTO Collective and Fat Outs Burrow at Islington Mill, Salford
02.05.14 - 25.05.14 exhibition of sound installation at Rowing Projects, London with Haris Epaminonda as part wild horses mane on both sides. Performance Improvisation on dialogue; erosion 3 May
14.03.14 - 18.05.14 Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice sound piece commission and collaboration with Haris Epaminonda part 3 full length feature film South of Sun
06.03.14 - 05.05.15 exhibition The Temporary curated by Rachel Marsden with part wild horses mane on both sides
02.05.13 In the Mix commission invited by Naomi Kashiwagi, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
29.06.13 - 04.09.13 Modern Art Oxford sound piece collaboration with Haris Epaminonda part 2
14.02.13 - 05.05.13 May Kunsthaus, Zurich sound piece collaboration with Haris Epaminonda part 1
26.04.13 at 18:30 artist talk and performance, Kunsthaus Zurich
26.10.13 TUSK Festival, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Commission to collaborate with Pelt, USA & Michael Morley NZ on an improvisation for Balinese Gamelan piece
18.01.12 - 18.03.12 Anthropos, Cyprus Faces Through the Ages Cyprus Museum, Nicosia - Collaboration on AV work with Haris Epaminonda
09.06.12 - 16.09.12 DOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany - collaboration with Haris Epaminonda
selected residencies
15.02.15 - 15.03.15 Kunsthall Bergen, Norway with pascal nichols
07.02.14 - 14.02.14 Arnolfini Bristol with pascal nichols
selected performances
20.12.2016 Performance of ‘archaic trip, sweltering and incandescent’ text, flute, feedback at Helicopter, Den Haag
16.12.2016 Performance of ‘archaic trip, sweltering and incandescent’ text, flute, feedback and actions with Insa Langhorst at Klangkeller, Berlin
26.11.16 performance of ‘Cooking up a stew from other’s oddments, 2 & 4’ [world première] at Hudderfield Contemporary Music Festival with part wild horses mane on both sides, Greta Buitkute & Kamran Ali,
24.09.16 ‘based upon attachment’ performance piece based upon attachment theory and intimacy with text, rocks, act of hugging and tin foil at Caustic Coastal with performers Nicola Colclough, Kate Armitage and Minnie Mandala,
23.09.16 flute and vocal improvised performance at the Birley, Preston with Greta Buitkute for the exhibition ‘detailed tales of a champion rubbernecker’ by Fritz Welch
16.04.15 part wild horses mane on both sides performance, Tectonics Festival, Reykjavik
13.03.15 Performance with part wild horses mane on both sides and Sam Andreae Borealis Festival, Bergen
26.02.15 part wild horses mane on both sides perform at Staedlijk Museum Amsterdam, part of Geological Imagination Festival curated by Sonic Acts
15.02.15 Admit partiality, join me in feigning commissioned by CFCCA February 2015, collaboration with Chris Paul Daniels
12.01.15 Black Box performance of a visual score from Helga Fassonaki, Alexandra Park, Manchester. Part of the touring Khal exhibition,
16.10.14 Performance of Rotational Noise, desideratum commissioned by CFCCA, Manchester at John Rylands Library
08-2014-10.2014Touring installation-performance ‘bottomless submundane’ with part wild horses mane on both sides produced by QuJunktions & Sound and Music:
02.08.14 Manchester Federation House
06.08.14 Edinburgh Embassy Gallery
07.08.14 Glasgow CCA
08.08.14 Bradford Delius Arts & Cultural Centre
09.08.14 Oxfordshire SUPERNORMAL
30.08.14 Cambridge Wysing Arts Centre
14.09.14 Bexhill-On-Sea De La Warr Pavilion
02.10.14 London Tate Britain
27 - 30.06.14 Installation and performance of David Tudor’s Rainforest IV, Nottingham Trent University
29.07.14 solo performance with Daniel Higgs and Michael Zerang, Singing Knives and Tinnitus Jukebox, Sheffield
14.06.14 solo performance at Subrosa social centre with David Birchall, Otto Will & Obsidian Pond
tour with part wild horses mane on both sides, 2koikarp & Rosanne Robertson:
28.05.14 Les Instants Chavirés, Paris
29.05.14 Nest, Brussels
30.05.14 Roodkapje, Rotterdam
31.05.14 Extrapool, Nijmegen solo performance & group collaboration for 8mm film
17.05.14 at Metanast, Manchester invited by Manoli Moriaty solo performance
04.05.14 at Sounds from the other city, Salford solo performance curated by Volkov Commanders
20.03.14 Dulcimer, Chorlton Manchester solo performance
08.02.14 Victoria Works, Sheffield solo performance
07.02.14 Milk room, Hotspur Press Manchester solo performance
part wild horses mane on both sides, Israel:
19.12.13 haifa- syrup club
20.12.13 jerusalem, uganda
21.12.13 tel aviv- levontin 7
20.11.13 Performance atNoise above Noise event at Penthouse, Northern Qtr, Manchester
07.09.13 Improvisation with Hannah Marshall and Sam Andreae
31.08.13 Cafe Oto, London, kelly jayne jones and pascal nichols invite guests to perform
12.11.12 collaboration with Bridget Hayden as part of the Wire’s Querido John event in London curated by Electra Productions, Irene Revell
http://www.electra-productions.com/projects/2012/John/overview.shtml
workshops
13.03.15 Kunsthall Bergen, workshop for families
18.10.14 Visiting artist at Heart of Glass workshop in St Helens covered market
22.12.13 tel aviv workshop and collaboration with Eran Sachs and Alex Drool
02.02.12 - 25.07.12 series of public improvisation workshops lead in collaboration with local improvisors, at Z Arts, Manchester
27.03.12 - 28.03.12 Gals with Guitars improvisation project aims to raise the profile of women in improvised music
2011
PROJECTS 96, Museum of Modern Art, New York - Sound commission in collaboration with Haris Epaminonda
Out Fest, Lisbon, Portugal – Invited to perform at annual festival
‘Filme’ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany - Sound commission in collaboration with Haris Epaminonda and live music performance at exhibition opening
2010
VOL. VI, Gallery 2, Tate Modern, London - Sound commission for Haris Epaminonda
CHRONICLES, Site Gallery, Sheffield - Sound commission for Haris Epaminonda
CHEW THE FLOAT multimedia installation group show, Victoria Baths, Manchester
Singing Knives Festival, Cube Cinema, Bristol- performance at one-off festival curated by UK label Singing Knives
set up an Object group in Manchester that organised events and actions to challenge the sexual objectification of women in Manchester http://www.object.org.uk/
2009
Colour Out of Space Festival, Brighton UK, performance at annual festival of outsider and underground music and sound art
2008
curation of Liberté, Egalité, Publicité, a group show in response to aggresive advertising campaigns in the city of Lyon