Public Events / Gigs / Talks / Screenings
14th-15th June - talk at Every Age is A Canterbury Pilgrimage: Powell and Pressburger (conference), Canterbury
11th May - Insomniacathon festival performance evening, Tartu (Amy Cutler and Francis Gene-Rowe)
7-11th May - Science Fiction Research Association annual conference, Tartu, Estonia
26th April 2024 - Imagining Extinction in Videogames: an International Symposium, Portugal / online
8th-10th April 2024 - Festival of the Forest, Bath Spa University
31st January 2024 - Darkness Darkness Burning Bright, Cafe OTO
14th December 2023 - Species Piracy premiere at Iklectik supported by LCAB, Waterloo
8th December 2023 - Sonic Research Group Winter Concert, Borough Road Gallery
29th November 2023 - HAUS SHOW Catford: Launch of CUTLER & ZABA
10th November 2023 - Augmented Realities in Powell and Pressburger: day course for Screen South, Folkestone
26th October 2023 - duo with Sylvia Hallett at FREE RANGE, Fruitworks, Canterbury
19th October 2023 - Sound Arts Lecture Series presented by LCC Sound Arts and the CRiSAP Research Centre: Guest artist Amy Cutler, London
13th-15th October 2023 - (live projection and submerged flower arranging, in duo with Alice McCabe): Swimming a Long Way Together: Endurance Swim and Performances, Sea Lanes Brighton
30th September 2023 - Meshwork (Creekside live projection and plant performance with Alice McCabe), Deptford X Festival
31st August - Queering Environmental Justice (panel) at RGS-IBG conference, London
12th August - Art and the Deep Past: Popularising Palaeontology, KCL
23rd July - Sound Plotting at Stanmer Organics, Brighton
21st July - 23rd September - FAIRY LIGHT at the Centre for Folklore, Myth, and Magic
21st July - FAIRY LIGHT re-staged at the Centre for Folklore, Myth, and Magic, Todmorden: Opening Night
21st July - Silt and Other Matters, Symposium, KCL
13-16th July - RCA Information Experience Design 2023, The Truman Brewery
13th July - RCA Graduating Exhibition at The Truman Brewery (Opening Night)
28th May - Hard Work, Ryan’s Bar, Stoke Newington, 3pm
24th May - Amy Cutler ‘Concert for Kodak Camera (Amplified)’, Flicker AV night at Iklectik, 7-10pm
14th May - Xing the Line, Hoxton Cabin, London, 6pm
21st April - Tread Into Mulch: The New Weird Music at Hundred Years Gallery, London, 7.30pm
18th April - Corroding the Now (Book Launch & Performances), Birkbeck, London, 6pm
26th March - Enclave Live Land Art Performances, CCCC Museum, Valencia
24th March - Rise of the Empathy Machines, Glasgow Film Festival
3rd-7th March Alpha Film Festival, Metaverse
25th Feb - Amy Cutler & Késia Decoté, Daylight Music + Hackoustic, St John on Bethnal Green, 12pm
21st Feb - Tape Cassette Lit Night, European Poetry, Kingston Upon Thames, 6pm
24th Jan - Do Androids Dream on Silver Screens? ICA, London, 8.30pm
Dec 16th - Somewhere in the Universe Two Black Holes Collide, KELDER gallery, London, 6.30pm
Nov 25th - The Year Without A Summer, KELDER gallery, London, 6.30pm
Oct 28th - Planetary Vertigo, KELDER gallery, London, 6.30pm
Sept 8th - FLIM FLAM at The Bees Mouth, Brighton, 7.30pm
Sept 3rd - LAZARUS TAXA at Braziers International Film Festival (The Barn, Saturday 9.30-11pm)
Aug 12th - RAVINE/MACHINE at Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park (The Vortex stage, Friday 4.30pm)
Aug 2nd - Artist Residency Launch, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, York
July 15th - Art/Science Interface Outreach, University of York, Department of Biology, 10 a.m.
June 26th - Live Earth Cinema show at Glastonbury Festival, 5.30-6.30pm, Gas Tower Stage
June 21st - What Is the Value of Nature? Evening symposium, KCL Anatomy Theatre, The Strand, 6-8pm
June 17-18 - Solo audiovisual set at Boundaries Festival, Sunderland, UK
June 8th - POD exhibition Private View, Ocean Leisure, Embankment, 7-9.30pm
May 30th - Fairy Light artists In Conversation w/ Merrick Burrow, Leeds Central Library, 6pm
May 27th - Fairy Light exhibition Private View, Leeds Central Library, 5-7pm
May 21st - Fairy Light, Fairy Night: Online evening fundraiser
March 23rd - Talk at IRCAM Forum for Music & Technology / The Centre Pompidou, Paris
March 17th - FOREVERMORE FOREVERLESS - Private View/Exhibition Launch, RCA White City, 6.30pm
Dec 4th - RAVINE/MACHINE at The Rose Hill, Brighton, 7pm
Nov 30th - Acoustic Territories at Iklektik, London, 6.30pm
Nov 1st - Amy Cutler artist talk (online), CineSisters SW
Oct 31st (day) - Cinema as Time Capsule, Archive sessions (AHRC funded climate engagement workshops with Amy Cutler and Max Long in Cambridge)
Oct 24th - 30th - Reassemble: Sound Ecologies laboratory, FIBER, Amsterdam
Oct 23rd (evening) - Hackoustic Presents: Ravine/Machine, Iklectik, London
Oct 23rd (day) - Cinema as Time Capsule (AHRC funded climate engagement workshops with Amy Cutler and Max Long in Cambridge)
Oct 10th - Solo gig at Hundred Years Gallery, Shoreditch (Sunday afternoon)
Sept 20th - CineSisters Filmmakers Live, Plymouth, 6.30pm
Aug 31st - Sept 1st - Interacting Minds & Olafur Eliasson: Workshops in Copenhagen
July 22nd - ‘The New Humanitrees’, paper at Uprooting the Anthropocene (online symposium)
July 16th - Amy Cutler: Keynote at Posthuman Voice Symposium, University of Exeter (online)
May 6th 2021 - Amy Cutler: talk at Moving Image Makers Collective, online, 6.30pm
March 24th 2021 - Amy Cutler: Nature’s Karaoke, Sound Practice Research Group (online), 6pm
Feb 15th 2021 - Amy Cutler: Nonhuman Performances, Bangor (online), 5pm
Nov 7th - Merchinogion Reading Perfformiad, online, 7pm
Oct 31st - Amy Cutler: Halloween set for Sonic Electronics, IKLECTIK online, 8pm
Oct 24th - Walking my Riddels (Amy Cutler live performance for Riddley Walker symposium), online
July 16th - Amy Cutler & Graham Dunning: LIVE for SonitusLive
May 22nd - Amy Cutler & Graham Dunning: LIVE for The Old Police House / TOPH Housebound
May 21st - Amy Cutler: film screenings / Butoh dance performances from Further_In
May 9th - Amy Cutler & Graham Dunning: LIVE for Further_In / Broken20 Records
April 11th - Amy Cutler & Graham Dunning: LIVE for I Am An Instrument Panopticon
Feb 15th - Permission to Play, The Wellcome Trust, 11-5pm
Jan 27th - Baltica Memory and Landscape performances, The Old Biscuit Factory, London
Jan 16th-17th - Outdoor Experiences Innovation Workshop, Heddon Valley, Exmoor
Jan 15th - FUTURE IMPERMANENT: fractal rushes on Örö, live presentation as part of the hands-on FUTURE IMPERMANENT speculative research event, Wimbledon School of Art
2019:
Nov 28th-29th - Keynote at Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre
Nov 13th - The Imagined Forest, Walthamstow Trades Hall, London
Oct 23-27th - As Above, So Below: cinema installation, Resort Studios, Margate Film Festival
Oct 17th - The Hellstrom Chronicle, Live Cultures season, Close Up Cinema
Oct 11th - 11th Hour Festival, Kings Lynn, Norfolk
Oct 9th - Solidarity: Hacking Nature Documentary, workshop w/ Amy Cutler, Unsound Krakow
Oct 8th - Interspecies Solidarity, Panel, Unsound Festival Krakow
Sept 27th - Scales of Home: Uncanny Approaches to Nature and Documentary, 518 Valencia, SF7
Sept 26th - NATURE'S NICKELODEONS at The Exploratorium, San Francisco Green Film Festival
Sept 23rd - Artist Panel: Adjacent Directly Group Show, Unit 1 Gallery, London
Sept 14th-29th - Futures of Sexuality, TIFA Working Studios, Maharashtra
Sept 12th - The Multiple 'Lives' of Nature Documentary, talk @Beastly Modernisms, Glasgow
July 21st - Polypore Spore and Sound Festival, Chalton Gallery, London
July 18th - Fragile Nature: Art and Ecology, Marriott’s Warehouse, King’s Lynn Festival
July 14th - The Torriano Camarade (collaboration with Mischa Foster Poole), London
June 28th - Amy Cutler & Edwin Rostron, Moving Image Salon: Film & Video Umbrella
June 10-11th - Amy Cutler as Artist in Residence, Sex and Nature: 1800-2018, Exeter
May 4-5th - “Acoustic Commons” SoundCamp for International Dawn Chorus Day, Tower Hamlets Cemetery
March 27th - FlimFlam (Jazz and Blues), Ryans Bar, Stoke Newington
March 15th - Museum Engagement as Speculative Design, Camberwell College of Art
Feb 19th - Sensing the Sea: Ocean Reverberations, Ace Hotel, Shoreditch (super/collider)
2018:
Dec 16th - Becoming Animal & director Q&A, Bertha DocHouse, London, 4pm
Dec 14th - All Her Beautiful Green Remains in Tears at GRRL HAUS Cinema, Boston, MA, 8pm
Dec 12th - Evans/Jones/Cutler at Guillotine 2, The Beehive, London, 8pm
Nov 18th - NATURE'S NICKELODEONS, Live on Stage @ IDFA, Amsterdam, Kleine Komedie, 7.30pm
Nov 6th - Site / Plot / Hole: Writing Outside-In, Senate House, London, 12-4pm
Oct 19th - w/ Delphine Dora, The Cube, Bristol, 8pm
Oct 17th - w/ Delphine Dora and Sylvia Hallett, Café Oto, 7.30pm
Oct 13th - Incantations from Yin Valley screening at TUSK Festival, Sage Gateshead, Newcastle, 2pm
Sept 26th: Science Fiction / Natural History, The Horniman Museum, 2pm
Sept 14th - Hackoustic Presents September, Iklectik, Old Paradise Yard, Waterloo, 7pm
Sept 8th - Tadhg O'Sullivan in Conversation, Open City Doc Fest, Festival Hub: Studio, 1pm
Sept 3rd - A.I. and Creativity, BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, 10am
August 16th - The White Review: On Ecology, at Bold Tendencies, 6.30pm
July 17th - w/ Ivor Kallin, at HARD WORK, The Beehive, Tottenham, 7.30pm
July 11th - w/ Sylvia Hallett, at XING THE LINE, Iklectik, Old Paradise Yard, Waterloo, 7.30pm
PREVIOUS INFO 2018:
Amy works in live cinema / curating and gives talks, workshops, panels, Q&As and performances at galleries, cinemas, and universities. She also performs with musicians, including live collaborations with Sylvia Hallett, Ivor Kallin, David Chatton Barker, Josephine Foster, Sam McLoughlin, Anna Ridler, Laura Cannell, Alex Neilson, Douglas MacGregor, Iris Garrelfs, Douglas Benford, Delphine Dora, and Nathan Walker. Recent events with musical elements included 'We Spiders', a live performance with Ivor Kallin of cobwebs as musical scores in Tottenham (July 17th 2018), BLOOD IN THE FOREST at the William Morris Gallery (April 26th 2018), and her gig with Sylvia Hallett and Erland Cooper at St Pancras Old Church, launching Cooper's new instrumental album of Orcadian bird songs, Solan Goose, with Amy's pieces about migratory birds, drawing on histories of bird observation and sea-bird ballads such as Nólsoyar Páll's Fuglakvæði. She has occasionally been involved in live singing performances, including as part of the heterophonic singing ritual in Laura Cannell's Modern Ritual show (left, at LSO St Luke's 2018), as well as at Le Guess Who? Festival (2016) and on the TV channel VPRO at Bimhuis Amsterdam. She has given a number of public workshops on sonic cinema and nonhuman ecologies, including Let's Do It Like They Do on the Discovery Channel, a presentation for the CHASE consortium Sensible Cinema (Jan 19th 2018), and Sensual Landscapes (16th Feb, 2018) as part of Sam Hertz's climates of sound residency at The Tetley, Leeds.
She is a regular film, exhibition, and events curator (see alternate pages on this site for her cinema PASSENGERFILMS, her exhibition Time, The Deer, is in the Wood of Hallaig, or her Wellcome Trust film scoring festival Liar Lyre), and has been running film panels at venues such as Hackney Picturehouse, Genesis Cinema, and Shortwave Cinema since 2011, when she was the Special Events Co-Ordinator for the first national UK Green Film Festival. She also works on site-specific events, including the White Rose project she ran, Hearts of Oak, which involved curated events and cultural/creative industries workshops taking place at small and independent woodlands and British forests in 2015-2016. In 2018 she is particularly focusing on internationally touring Nature's Nickelodeons. These events draw on and de-construct the nature documentary as a hybrid science/fiction format, and as produced, invented, and re-invented by diverse screening practices: mobile cinema; live music; 3D spectacles; DIY cinema; national television events; live-streaming; and even the history of zoo cinemas and theme parks. She is available for teaching workshops about these methodologies or in her role as an Ambassador for Public Engagement (with the National Co-Ordinating Centre for Public Engagement), including her workshop for the Royal Geographical Society, Re-Animating Nature as Live Cinema (April 19th 2018), and a forthcoming film masterclass at Goldsmiths for the new Critical Ecologies network.
In 2018 she ran a Leverhulme research event series related to the idea of lexicons/glossaries and environmental futures, Key Words: Coming To Terms With The GeoHumanities (public seminar, 20th Feb); for further information on the future of this project, or to identify a difficult word or term which you would like to present for discussion or in a performance format, please email amy.cutler@rhul.ac.uk. Survival; resilience; decoy; alien; ...which term would you deconstruct anew, and how? Resources for this event series included the mini-essays of Bataille's Critical Dictionary, Raymond Williams' Keywords, the Living Lexicon for the Environmental Humanities, the Lexicon for an Anthropocene Yet Unseen, and Impossible Words, each of which take a critical and discursive approach to the shifting terms of environmental futures.