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Jordan McKenzie teaches contemporary performance practice to BA & MA students at Kingston University and Wimbledon College of Art (London University of the Arts) where he is also a major reasearch contributor investigating the relationship between drawing and performativity. In addition he runs regular peformance courses for all age groups across the UK.



Lines of Enquiry: Dance4, Nottingham (2005)

INVENTORY was a collaborative research project investigating the political, social and gendered plotting of architectural space made in conjunction with artist Juliet Robson. Robson was commissioned by Dancefor to curate a series of theoretical and practice based enquiries into the nature of collaboration. For INVENTORY we measure all of the architectual feature of the building that we were working in, in terms of height, and plotted this information onto the walls of the building as a series of drawn lines that corresponded to our own particular bodily measurements. INVENTORY was a critque of Le Corbusier Modular Man, a modernist blueprint of the idealised and perfect body, that was to inhabit modernist architecture.

Live Art Project: Biddick School, Newcastle (2006)

Working in conjunction with the staff and students of Biddick school, McKenzie led a short course into devising a live art event. The course introduced secondary school students into contemporary issues of performance: sight; performativity; devising; and duration. It also introduced the students to key live art practitioners working in the UK and abroad.