Selected residencies
Residency at EMS Stockholm Feb 2020
Residency at Chalkwell Hall and Focal Point Gallery Southend-on-Sea with Eleanor Cully 19-25.02.2019
Selected exhibitions
Sound installation the exhibition 'A Joy For Ever' at The Whitworth gallery, opens 28 March 2019 until June 2019
Film score collaboration with Haris Epaminonda, single screen digitised 16mm film, Chimera, Venice Biennale, May - Nov 2019
24.02.16 collaborative performance with part wild horses mane on both sides and Petrit Halilaj, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, invited by Pedro Rocha
09.2015 – 12.2015 6-channel sound installation as part of Haris Epaminonda exhibition XVI at Le Plateau FRAC de l'Ile de France Paris
19.06.15 sound installation multiplying reflections, surpassing 20 kHz invited by MUTO Collective and Fat Outs Burrow at Islington Mill, Salford
02.05.14 - 25.05.14 sound installation at Rowing Projects, London with Haris Epaminonda as part wild horses mane on both sides. Including a one-off performance Improvisation on dialogue; erosion 3 May
14.03.14 - 18.05.14 Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice sound installation commission and collaboration with Haris Epaminonda part 3 full length feature film South of Sun
06.03.14 - 05.05.15 exhibition and performance, The Temporary curated by Rachel Marsden with part wild horses mane on both sides
02.05.13 In the Mix commission invited by Naomi Kashiwagi, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
29.06.13 - 04.09.13 Modern Art Oxford sound installation collaboration with Haris Epaminonda part 2
14.02.13 - 05.05.13 May Kunsthaus, Zurich film score collaboration with Haris Epaminonda part 1
26.04.13 at 18:30 artist talk and performance, Kunsthaus Zurich
26.10.13 TUSK Festival, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Commission to collaborate with Pelt, USA & Michael Morley NZ on an improvisation for Balinese Gamelan piece
18.01.12 - 18.03.12 Anthropos, Cyprus Faces Through the Ages Cyprus Museum, Nicosia - Collaboration on audio visual installation with Haris Epaminonda
09.06.12 - 16.09.12 DOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany - sound installation collaboration with Haris Epaminonda
Solo performance
hcmf//2019 21.11.2019 collaboration with Dan Valentine from Rainer Veil and Joe Beedles on a new piece Carving shapes with many parallel and proportional sides
Performance of Hard layered kith, Middleport Pottery kiln, British Ceramics Biennale, Stoke-on-Trent 28.09.2019
Lower limbs of Cybele in obsidian, a new commission from Full of Noises and Arts Council England part of the Unearthing ancient sounds: Ruskin and modern day rituals, performance dates:
Lapworth Museum of Geology 21.08.2019
Grizedale Forest Visitor Centre 07.09.2019
Performance Golden Lion, Todmorden along with Wolf Eyes & Leaf Kickers 23.03.2019
Performance 'Codices strive downwards to meet the ancestress' on 02.02.2019 at Altesfinanzamt Berlin curated by Sandhya Daemgen
Performance AME, Huddersfield 24.01.2019
'Multiple dimension initiate' performance at Site Gallery, Sheffield 28.09.2018 invited by Lady Vendredi. Details here.
Video Jam film score | film from Vimukthi Jayasundara | Manchester Museum | 20.10.2017
Supernormal | Braziers Park | 6.08.2017
Residency at LEGROOM, Manchester July 2017, performance of work in progress on 29.7.17
‘Masticate the moss’ performance with rocks, flute and text piece | L'Espace des arts sans frontières, Paris 10.04.2017 | with Jan Yun, Jun Y-Ciao, Tomoko Sauvage & Emmanuel Allard curated by Détail
‘Repetition, destruction’ electro-acoustic piece with dance and gesture, response to Andy Warhol exhibition | The Whitworth |30.03.2017 with Hannah Ellul, Lauren Bolger & Ben Knight
Composition for Trio Atem | ‘something having become conscious’ fixed media stereo sound piece, flute, voice and cello | March 2017
Performance piece ‘different ritual baths’ | Silver Road water tower Lewisham| with Naama Schendar performing actions and text | 09.02.2017
Performance ‘archaic trip, sweltering and incandescent’ text, flute, feedback | Helicopter, Den Haag | 20.12.2016
Performance ‘archaic trip, sweltering and incandescent’ text, flute, feedback and actions with Insa Langhorst | Klangkeller, Berlin | 16.12.2016
performance |'attachment theory and intimacy' with text, rocks, act of hugging and tin foil | Caustic Coastal | collaboration with Nicola Colclough, Kate Armitage and Minnie Mandala, 24.09.16
Collaborations
Collaboration with international filmmaker Oleksiy Radynski at Video Jam RNCM 07.02.2020
LOWER LITHS: Kelly Jayne Jones with Space Afrika, Gabrielle Gagnon-Fréchet, Dan Valentine & Guillaume Dujat at Cafe Oto 16.01.2020
Tour with Jon Collin, Stockholm, Gothenburg & Gerlesborg Sweden, 12-16.02.2019
Matana Roberts & Kelly Jayne Jones OUTLANDS commission, produced by Qujunktions and supported by OUTLANDS Network, May 2018
Matana Roberts & Kelly Jayne Jones collaboration at Donau Festival Austria on Sun 6 May
White Death
ODD multi-platform art space in Bucharest will host Kelly Jayne Jones & Hannah Ellul in Sept 2018, talk & performance
White Death in residency at WORM, Rotterdam February 2018
June 2017 European tour | White Death | collaboration with Hannah Ellul from Psykick Dancehall
Clout, then Grappling
Performances of Clout then grappling with Greta Buitküte in Manchester 27 Oct & Leeds 1 Nov
Supernormal festival | Braziers Park Oxfordshire | vocals, flute and movement | 5.08.2017
Cassette release of Clout then Grappling project with Greta Buitkute | Silver Ghosts label Feb 2017
Clout then grappling | flute and vocal improvised performance | the Birley Preston | with Greta Buitkute for the exhibition ‘detailed tales of a champion rubbernecker’ by Fritz Welch, 23.09.2016
Other
Invitation to collaborate in the piece Decay written by Claudia Molitor & Tullis Rennie, world première at hcmf// 2018
Performance on 19 November
La roche mère moutonne, flute and slate duo performance with Gavin Osborn at Royal Northern College of Music 12.12.2017 8pm
performance of ‘Cooking up a stew from other’s oddments, 2 & 4’ [world première] at Hudderfield Contemporary Music Festival | part wild horses mane on both sides, Greta Buitkute & Kamran Ali | 26.11.2016
28.05.2017 collaboration | Andie Brown | Cafe Oto with Limpe Fuchs
collaboration | Sam Weaver generative piece for analogue synth & flute| MANTIS festival University of Manchester| 29.10.2016
series of improvisation workshops | Anton Hunter & David Magnus Birchall commissioned by Brighter Sound Manchester | performances at Central Library Manchester 30 May 2015
Releases and publications
Release on Bloxham Tapes "Clay tablets, hoarded creatures", May 2019 available here
CD-R 'Loss of inner serenity', May 2018, Early Music
cassette release on Winebox Press, 2016
Radio
Live set on DJ HESSKA's show on NTS Manchester 05.01.2019 at 21:00 tune in here
Monthly radio show on Reform Radio called within the space of seven breaths, Archive shows here