On a Friday evening last week, my latest work, an installation piece called The Writer and The Reader, made her first appearance at Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Derelict DinnerPerformanceTalk, programmed and curated by the performer, director and filmmaker Naama Schendar.

It was a deeply collaborative piece made with Naama, the musician and composer Yoni Silver and my long-time collaborator Laura Potter. Indeed, although I wrote her and performed her, I am not entirely sure I am her author anymore; she belongs to the four of us. And for me, this is perfect.

As we made this piece, all four of us made decisions about how she was made, adapted her, suggested different ways to iterate her, frame her and perform her. She is a work in and of herself — although I see her now as another element of my longer-term project The Coral Notes, in her preoccupation with the ghostly relationship between the act of reading and the act of writing.

She was such a joyous thing to make, with a group of people of superlative talents, skills and compassion. I put myself in their hands with zero hesitation and I am incredibly proud of the work that emerged.

An excerpt of the work is here below.

The Writer and The Reader
Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, Derelict DinnerPerformanceTalk
London, 18.07.25

Written and Performed: J.C.Kristensen
Produced and Directed: Naama Schendar
Sound Engineered: Yoni Silver
Inimitability supplied by Laura Potter