Cris Cheek

Cris Cheek is a British-American poet, performer and sound artist born in 1955 in Enfield, London. Beginning in the mid-1970s, he worked alongside Bill Griffiths and Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society printshop and with the Writers Forum group, co-founding the performance poetry collective known as jgjgjgjgjgjgjg. In 1981 he was among the founders of Chisenhale Dance Space. His collaborative electronic music work includes the trio Slant with Philip Jeck and Sianed Jones, and a BBC Radio 3 programme on Madagascar that won a Sony Gold Specialist Award in 1995. He taught performance writing at Dartington College of Arts and has been a professor at Miami University in Ohio.