CoLLABORATIONS
From time to time, we collaborate with other artists of all creative disciplines to explore alternate ways of telling our stories. So far we have created with:
CHIRPY
Singer / Songwriter
Quill Kickers X CHIRPY wrote a song together based on the question - What if you could pause time?
Now available on Apple Music, Spotify and other music platforms.
Rebecca Shannon - better known as CHIRPY - is an Irish singer / songwriter and producer from Dublin, Ireland. She self-released a 6 track demo EP in June 2017 called ‘Real Life’ which shot straight to the number 1 position on the Irish iTunes album download charts. Her debut album was released mid-2018 to widespread critical acclaim both in the Ireland and UK premiering on Clash Magazine.
‘In turns soothing yet devastatingly emotional’ - Clash Magazine
‘An assured debut’ - Irish Times
'It’s a track that’s all too easy to get lost in’ (Breathe) - Nialler9
Melanie Frances and Modern Art Oxford
Digital Artist
Quill Kickers took part in Modern Art Oxford’s digital art project titled #branch, created by digital artist Melanie Frances in collaboration with a group of Creative Consultants aged 18-25. Fusing game design, interactive storytelling, speculative fiction and citizen science #branch created a ‘forest’ which explored interactive stories written by a community. Quill Kickers wrote a story based on the question - What if you could prototype your life before you lived it? - while Melanie Frances reimagined it as digital art.
Melanie Frances is a game designer, digital storyteller and creative mathematician. She is Joint Artistic Director of Produced Moon, a digital, interactive arts organisation in Scotland.
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Journal d’Ambroisie
Online Youth Platform
Quill Kickers X Journal d’Ambroisie wrote a story together based on the question - What if you’re in the wrong multiverse? - for Journal d’Ambroisie’s Fate and Choices edition. Star writer, Anja Radonjic took up the pen.
Journal D’Ambroisie is an online publication born out of a vision to create a space for free expression of the greatest thoughts, by the leading youth of our generation. It is made up of a collection of young writers wanting to express themselves.
AOmaon Collective
Movement Art
Quill Kickers X AOmaon Collective collaborated on a dance film based on the question - Should creatives fear AI? This question du jour was originally answered by the Quill Kickers Community, then put through ChatGPT and then interpreted into movement by AOmaon Collective. The resulting film was reshot by a professional crew, Kickstarter-funded by the Community and currently doing the film festival circuit. It was long-listed for the British Short Film Awards 2023.
Created by two French artists - Olivia Grassot and Adélie Lavail - The AOmaon Collective are dedicated to choreographic and visual art, aspiring to generate their own language through movement. Selected by Messums Wiltshire for the 4 x 20 Emerging Choreographer Platform 2022, they performed their commissioned work titled ‘Plague of Doubt’ at the Messums Festival of Dance in July 2022. They also created and performed ‘Utopia Room’ to critical acclaim at Resolution Festival 2020, an annual festival of new choreography in London. Since then it has been performed at Bristol Old Vic, Freiart Festival, Theatre Mairie de Perpignan, Festival Tautavel and Messums Wilshire.
