cris cheek will perform at The Other Room on June 27th at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham Street, Manchester, M4 1LE. This film is of his performance at the Southwest Ohio Poets festival. For more, you can read some of his work at Jacket, this interview at the Poetry Foundation, or his Wikipedia page.

cris cheek: poet, artist, interdisciplinary performer and director of creative writing at Miami University in south-west Ohio, makes a rare visit to Manchester. He has a herstory of collaborative and transdisciplinary practice; as co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space where he worked alongside Mary Prestidge and with Ghislaine Boddington with whom he founded Shinkansen and cocurated the Voice Over festival. For seventeen years he worked in various text-sound combinations with Sianed Jones, including Slant (with Phillip Jeck). He taught performance writing at Dartington College of Arts during which time he made a substantive body of performance writing with Kirsten Lavers under the moniker TNWK (things not worth keeping). Since then he’s been making and showing works in spoken and projected text-sound, such as Impluperfections and b a c k l i t. Most recent publications include the church, the school, the beer (Critical Document, 2007) and part : short life housing (The Gig, 2009).

The other performers will be Sarah Crewe and Lewis Freedman.