‘Superbugs – you and your community’, London, UK
The performance was a public engagement installation for City & Hackney PCT exploring personal hygiene as public health in the community. The performance raised questions around private/public space, roles and responsibility and the problems associated with delivering care in the community or Primary Care.
The performance was the culmination of a research project exploring infection control and clinical practice in the community, where the public or clinical and the private co-exist within a virtual care space. The performance challenged the role and responsibility of both the general public (patient and non-patient) in the home or private space in relation to their care, and the healthcare professional delivering clinically compliant care in a spatially challenged environment.
‘Superbugs – you and your community’ was toured throughout Hackney to 11 venues with each audience (public, patients and Healthcare professionals) responding powerfully to the messages and the form. Interesting points were raised at each performance and debated energetically between members of the audience and guests. (2008/09)
‘Audience members were able to shape the outcome of a play promoting good healthcare by making suggestions the performers then acted out’, Hackney Today, 25 May 2009.
‘In on the act 2’, Manchester UK
A performance installation at the Greenroom, exploring a theatre project in a former child soldier camp in Sri Lanka. Three months after the project, the young men who took part were massacred by local villagers. The ‘lecture’ performed by James Thompson deals with questions of responsibility, memory and healing, all of which are central to the dilemma and complexity of working in war zones. (2007)
‘...it was a fascinating evening and it certainly captured remarkably effectively the dilemma, the puzzlement, the search for the ‘truth’ of what happened in the camp, why and by whom, and ultimately the irresolvability of the events that tool place...When the key photo was shown, that was an excellent moment, all the more so because the visual and the verbal were so vitally interdependent...completely absorbing...it left you wanting to know more...’ Tony Jackson. Manchester University.
Photograph: Ruth Daniel, In place of war
‘10 minute tales’, Bolton UK
A series of stories exploring issues affecting the estate community and encouraging debate amongst the residents. (2007)
‘The absolute honesty held my interest. .Entertaining and I’ll bet some folk can draw parallels with tales told. Yes! This is an excellent idea that has ... great potential for helping others.’ Staff Member, Bolton at Home, Community Housing and Regeneration Group.
‘in on the act 1’, London UK
A performance installation exploring the role of the international researcher in communicating information about the Rwandan genocide to non-Rwandan audiences, and relates the shift of the researcher from passive observer to participating investigator in Rwandan memorial sites. This ‘lecture’ performed at The Faculty, London Metropolitan University, by James Thompson replicates the style of travelogue to comment on the partial readings of the genocide by international visitors and how their transitory status within Rwanda has been co-opted by the current government so that visiting researchers are enrolled as advocates and ‘academic scriptwriters’ to promote a certain version of the genocide to international audiences. This ‘lecture’ uses performance to comment on the performance demanded by these situations. (2007)
‘I thought it was absolutely brilliant, and a very exciting and absolutely challenging format for academic presentation of research,...it is potentially a form of presentation that can bridge the gap between University and the world...[it] makes all kinds of exciting things possible...ways of making knowledge, as well as communicating knowledge’. Jenny Hughes, Manchester University. 
Photograph: Steve Blunt, London Metropolitan University
‘Boardman Street Community Picnic’, Bolton UK
'I hope this isn’t the last we see of you…’ Eva Holden, ‘The Pebble Story’. (2006)
‘whitelight’, Manchester UK
A series of monologues exploring young lesbian and bisexual women's real life experiences of coming out as lesbian or bisexual performed at the Capitol Theatre Manchester. (2006)
'Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, these performances will have a lasting impact - superb, a must-watch show!' A. Lee STUDENT DIRECT 
Photograph: Kim Strobl
‘one of our ain’, Scotland UK
A piece of work exploring paedophilia in the immediate community: Performed by Sandra Brown OBE it tells the story of growing up in a small community profoundly affected the disappearance of one small child, Moira Anderson. (2005/06)
'From the moment she stepped on to the stage Sandra had the first-night sell-out audience eating out of her hand.' Evening Times (Glasgow)
Photograph: Kim Strobl
‘womensbusiness’, London UK
A piece of work performed at the Soho Theatre, exploring the storying of woman; how we are storied, who stories us, and the role we play in the story being told about us creates our identity. As women we story our lives and experiences differently, everyday sharing stories that are intimate and seductive. ‘womensbusiness’ creates a place where ordinary women can story themselves and where others can hear stories we tell about ourselves, publicly. (2005)
'Great concept which we'd be keen to hear more about in the future.' LBC 97.3 FM, LBC News 1152 AM & Heart 106.2 FM
‘women untitled 2004 oil on canvas, from the artist’s collection’, London UK (2004)
'China: another point of view', Sydney Australia (2000)