Other works and collaborationsThe works listed here include one-off things created for specific briefs, research projects, and pieces we’ve collaborated with other artists on.
Performing-Listening (with Kepla)
research project / 2026
We have been collaborating with musician Kepla (Jon Davies) on his research into performing-listening. During a residency at Full of Noises in Barrow-in-Furness, we tested methods of navigating collective performance with an ‘audience’, from score writing for sound and movement, to improvising with objects and stages, spaces and each other. How can we move between listening and sounding, watching and moving? How can we negotiate the relations between everyone in the performance, whether artist or audience, stranger or familiar?
PREVIOUS DATES> 4-6 September 2026 / Residency and public sharing/workshop at Full of Noises, Barrow-in-Furness
Service!
interactive dinner / 2 hours / 2026
Created for Fierce Festival’s programme of artist-hosted feasts, we hosted a night in which each and every guest had a personal butler to cater to their every need and desire throughout the night. This butler, however, was simply another guest at the dinner, meaning that everyone both had a butler and had to act as someone else’s butler. Everyone was given one white glove, and we delivered a lesson on the rules of fine table service: rarefied luxury meets arts sector scarcity. It was delightfully chaotic, and featured a jelly procession.
Created and performed by: Ben Kulvichit
Artistic input and performance: Clara Potter-Sweet
PREVIOUS DATES> 15 October 2026 / Fierce Festival at House of Beorma, Birmingham
Container (by Alan Fielden)
performance / 80 minutes / 2025
We were both collaborating devisers and performers for this work by Alan Fielden: a polyphonic choral performance exploring the violence and tenderness of living through catastrophe. Drawing influence from Laurie Anderson’s music and Robert Ashley’s television operas, Container makes use of overlapping poetic narratives and live music to explore alternative treatments of text, voice, and storytelling. Structured yet improvised, with words and phrases iterating, converging, branching, and repeating in a cascade of images and characters, Container uses polyphony to express tenderness, overwhelm, and hysteria.
Written and directed by: Alan Fielden
Performers: Alan Fielden, Ben Kulvichit, Clara Potter-Sweet, Jemima Yong, Tim Cape
Musical direction: Tim Cape
Lighting design: Ben Kulvichit
Sound design and production manager: Kendell Foster
Dramaturgy: Diana Damian Martin
Voice coaching: Darius Hulme
Producers: New Diorama Theatre, Kei Franklin, Jemima Yong
Production photo: Camilla Greenwell
PREVIOUS DATES> 2-12 April 2025 / New Diorama Theatre, London
> 5 February 2025 / National Poetry Library, Soutbank Centre, London
> 6 December 2024 / Eternal Series at St Giles Cripplegate, London
> 20 July 2024 / TACO!, London (b-sides project, runway)
> 19 September 2023 / Tough Sell at The Cube Microplex, Bristol (with COIMS)
> 16 September 2023 / Camden People’s Theatre, London
Doing It Right
performance / 15 minutes / 2024
Created for our mixed-bill night of ‘recycled’ work, Doing It Right was a one-off performance in which we revisited our first work, CELEBRATION. We re-learnt, live onstage, a dance from CELEBRATION to the Daft Punk song ‘Doin’ It Right.’ At the same time, a glitchy video recorded around the time of that show played, and a voiceover reflected on our feelings, 8 years on, about the piece and about optimism, naïvety and our continuing creative collaboration. Then we got changed into our costumes and performed the dance in a duet with our past selves on video, as best we could.
Created and performed by: Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben
Kulvichit
PREVIOUS DATES> 18 September 2024 / Past Works Recycling Plant #3 at The Cube, Bristol
Sweetener
video / 12 minutes / 2021
Sweetener takes its title from the TV production practice of
'sweetening' the response of a live studio audience with pre-recorded laughter samples. Set against the colours of
Battenberg cake and Mr Blobby, the video simulates a well-
behaved audience via post-production collage, providing a
laugh track for our everyday sitcom of shared delirium.
As they watch some unseen performance, this ersatz audience see-saws between forced and spontaneous laughter. Kept apart by
the threat of viral transmission, they somehow manage to stay
synchronised; laughter proves infectious.
The video blurs the space between live and recorded, authentic
and fake, whilst gesturing towards the almost comical fatigue of
a year in lockdown. As polite chuckles mutate into hysteria, the
crowd appears to ask, 'are you feeling what I'm feeling?'
Created, edited & performed by: Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben
Kulvichit
Outside eye & post-production sound: Nat Norland
Sweetener was commissioned by the Performance Research
Network at Newcastle University.
PREVIOUS DATES>
05 May 2021-ongoing / Performance Research Network, Online
'Liveness' Exhibition
RESOURCES
Explore the whole Liveness exhibition online
Spore Score (with Alice Boyd)
audio / 16 minutes / 2021
In Spore Score, we collaborated with sound
designer Alice Boyd to contemplate the inner life of fungi.
Fragments of text from wide-ranging sources percolate, whilst
an ever-changing soundscape emerges from music improvised
using the guidance of a spore print.
Inspired by John Cage’s Indeterminacy, the texts are selected
and ordered randomly from a bank of options, and the music
created separately, each part recorded in isolation. The
resulting sound collage mines elements of chance, audio
processing and environmental data to explore the fruitful
collaboration between humans, fungi and technology, asking
how we might listen in new ways to the natural world, and how it
speaks to us under jeopardy.
Created and performed by: Clara Potter-Sweet, Ben Kulvichit
and Alice Boyd, after Indeterminacy by John Cage
Composer and editor: Alice Boyd
Violin: Ben Kulvichit
Spore Score was created with commissioning support from The
North Wall as part of Alchymy Festival 2021.
PREVIOUS DATES>
03-31 May 2021 / Alchymy Festival, North Wall Arts Centre (online)
RESOURCES
Check out Alice’s music practice.
Look at this sweet photo of us recording the piece in our bedroom studios, courtesy of lockdown 2021. Bless.
You Have Reached Emergency Chorus
performance for indoor spaces / 15 minutes / 2018
We were invited to create a short piece of 'playful performance'
for Beta Public, a night of video games and performance at
Camden People's Theatre curated by Thomas Martin and Pat
Ashe.
We controlled the performance remotely, using
telephones to relay text and instructions from outside of the
theatre space to audience volunteers. They spoke alternately
with our voices and with their own, accompanied by the asinine
melancholy of on-hold jingles. This piece explored some of our interest in telephones/mediums of communication, that then spilled over into Something in Your Voice.
Created by: Clara Potter-Sweet and Ben Kulvichit
Additional text by: Nat Norland
PREVIOUS DATES>
14 May 2019 / BBC R+D, London (invited audience)
> 24 November 2018 / Beta Public IX, Camden People's Theatre