Dr Paris received her PhD from the University of Surrey and specialises in live art, solo and one to one performance, the senses in performance, autobiography, site specific and queer performance.

Helen Paris is co director of Curious with Leslie Hill. Curious was formed in 1996 and has produced over 40 projects which have been shown and exhibited widely by such venues as the Sydney Opera House, the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival, Artist Links, Shanghai, the International Women’s Festival, Taipei, Psi New York, ISA, Arizona. The work includes performance, installation video and film and the company is know for its edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics, work which has been called ‘as smart as it is seductive’.

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Curious is represented by Artsadmin

Recent work includes 'Fit to Survive?', the new short film broadcast on Channel 4 on the 12th of February (Darwin's 200th birthday) and screened at the Natural History Museum as part of the Darwin200 event, and a residency at the RSC Stratford. Curious are currently presenting their new performance the moment I saw you I knew I could love you which premiers at Chelsea Theatre, London, and their new film Sea Swallow’d working with acclaimed British film director Andrew Kotting. This work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and Arts Council England.

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Books:
Paris, H., and Hill, L., 2007.Greenham Common. London: Artsadmin.

Paris, H., and Hill, L. eds., 2006. Performance and Place. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Paris, H., and Hill, L. eds., 2004. Guerilla Performance: How To Make a Living as an Artist. London: Continuum.

Hill L. and Paris H. eds., 2001. Guerilla Performance & Multimedia. London: Continuum.

DVD’s: Essences of London, Lost & Found, and the 35 mm film (Be)longing.

Articles:

Paris, H., 2010.  The Smell of It.  In Freeman, J., Blood, Sweat & Theory: Research through Practice in Performance.  London: Middlesex University Press.

Paris, H., 2008. Curious Journeys. In Théâtre / Public issue 191.

Paris, H., and Hill, L., 2008. Being Curious. In Aston, E. and Harris, G. eds. Performance Practices and Process. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Paris, H., and Hill, L., 2006. Curious Feminists. In Aston, E. and Harris, G. eds. Feminist Futures. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Paris, H., 2006.  Too Close for Comfort. In Hill, L. and Paris, H., eds. Performance and Place. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hill, L. and Paris, H., 2005. One to One. In We Love You: Reflections on Audiences. London: Goethe Institute.

Hill, L., Paris, H., and Bhalla, U., 2004. On the Scent. In Arends B. and Slater, V., eds., Talking Back to Science: Art, Science and The Personal. London: The Wellcome Trust.

Hill, L. and Paris, H., 2003. On the Scent. In Performance Research, On Smell. London: Routledge.

Paris, H., 2002. Crossing Wires, Shifting Boundaries. In Bailes, S. and Derno, M. eds. Women and Performance, Issue 24. New York: NYU Press.

Paris, H., 2002. Ontology of the Olfactory. In Tessera. Montreal: University of Montreal.

Paris, H., 2000. Vena Amoris. In Live Art Magazine. Nottingham: Nottingham Trent University.

Hill, L. and Paris, H., 1998. I never go anywhere I can’t drive myself. In Performance Research, On Place Volume 3, No. 2. London: Routledge.


Articles about the work of Curious:

Aston, E. and Harris, G., 2008. Being Curious. In Performance Practices and Process, Aston and Harris (eds.), (London: Palgrave Macmillan) 2008.

Heddon, D., 2008. Autobiography and Performance. London: Palgrave MacMillan.

Schmidt, T., 2008. Vena Amoris. In Live Art Almanac. London: Live Art Development Agency

Dixon, S., 2007. Digital Performance. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Elwes, C., 2004. Introduction. In Arends B. and Slater, V., eds., Talking Back to Science: Art, Science and the Personal. London: Wellcome Trust.

Millard, R., 2004. On the Scent. In New Statesman. London: New Statesman.

Chalmers, J. and Chaudhuri, U., 2004. Sniff Art. In TDR/The Drama Review, Vol. 48, No. 2 (T182), Pages 76-80: 76-80.

Hyde, A., 2004. On the Scent. In New York Arts Magazine, May issue.

Singh, S., 2003. A Sense of Wonder. In New Scientist, vol 177 issue 2384

Goodman, L., and deGay, J., eds, 2000. The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance. London: Routledge.

Ayres, R., 2000. ‘Body Language. In Contemporary Visual Arts Magazine, issue 27, February.

Goodman, L., 1999. Sexuality in Performance: Replaying Gender in Theatre and Culture.  London: Routledge.

Loveless R., and Goodman, L., 1999. New Media Performance: the Next Frontier. In Alsopp R., and delaHunta S., eds. Performance Research. London: Routlege.

Adshead-Lansdale, J., 1998. In Goodman, L., and deGay, J. eds., The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance. London: Routledge.

Brosnan, J., 1998. Chapter Seven. In Rapi, N. and Chowdry, M. eds, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender and Performance. New York: Hawthorn Press.

Egervary, B., 1998. Another Con-Text. In Rapi, N. and Chowdry, M. eds, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender and Performance. New York: Hawthorn Press.

Scholz, T. 1997, Eporue 2000 – Two Mouths, One Tongue. In Surfacing At A Different Place. London: Green Press.