Heather McKnight is a multidisciplinary academic, artist, activist, published writer and creative facilitator. Having from an early age engaged in acting and poetry that tackled issues of youth disempowerment through local projects, she has gone on to engage in a combination of politicised artistic and research projects which range from music to visual arts. She has been performing as a musician (and working intermittently as a promoter) since 2005, this has included playing bass, double bass, guitar and singing in industrial projects, rock bands, folk bands, indie-rock, punk, noise and performance art projects and constructing live and recorded soundscapes for sound art projects. She is a published utopian theorist and uses expressive paintings to explore the utopian impulse, which she is now working to transform into works of kinetic video art. This has been part of her development into expressive video work from 2019. The video work has included live\/curated film works for gigs, music videos, immersive works, depending on the project this involves filming as well as curating archive footage. She has been moving into working her academic papers into more accessible immersive video essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2022 – Present, The Swamp: Ritualising our Biodiversity as Somatic Practice<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n