He has participated in international residencies in the Czech Republic, Reykjavik, Finland, The Banff Centre, Calcutta and Berlin developing and presenting performative videos which map onto urban and natural spaces. He recently designed projections for Korean musicians Noreum Machi at the National Theatre of Korea, Seoul and Panic Embrace, a VR installation for Blik Blik Festival 2020 in Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has toured with Back to Back Theatre making the performance video The Democratic Set (Europe and Canada 2018-20), and has designed several 360VR projects in 2019-20 with Theatre Kantanka. His projection work is often seen in the major Australian Festivals as well as smaller developments with experimental companies.
Samuel James has collaborated on more than 250 works over twenty five years with contemporary Australian performance companies and independent dancers. Parramatta Riverside Lennox Theatre 16-22nd April Animated Projections and video shadow play in collaboration with Carlos Gomes. A meta-performance shifting between her introverted presence underneath tables and behind curtains and chaotic aggression behind nightmare masks, the performance is delivered in the round, making us question how much we exist in-and-to the world, when we are consumed by loneliness and insanity. The memory simulacra is implanted into our heads via headphones ( binaural audio recordings by Gail Priest). We are one moment inside her body, then with her hiding under the stairs, then in a caffeine induced reverie of her dead husband, scenes being led by his voice inside her head. Madame D stands in the centre of an audience and fragments outwards in projections on broken walls. This labyrinthine work is based on the book The Obscene Madame D by Brazilian author Hilda Hilst and adapted by Carlos Gomes (Theatre Kantanka) performed by Katia Molino.
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