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Cris Cheek was born on 1955 in Enfield Town, London, England, is an American poet. Discover Cris Cheek's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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1955

Cris Cheek (born 1955) is a British-American multimodal poet and scholar.

1970

He began his career in the mid 1970s working alongside Bill Griffiths and Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society printshop in London and with the Writers Forum group, who met with regularity on the premises in Earls Court.

During that time he co-founded a poetry performance group known as jgjgjgjgjgjgjg.

. .(as long as you can say it that's our name) with Lawrence Upton and Clive Fencott.

Subsequently, cris collaborated on electronic music improvisations with Upton and ee Vonna-Michel as "bang crash wallop" and released several cassettes through Balsam Flex.

1972

Cheek was born in Enfield Town, London and educated at Highgate School, graduating in 1972.

1975

He worked at the printshop of the Consortium of London Presses in the basement of the Earls Court premises of the National Poetry Centre between 1975 and 1977.

Initially, cris helped Bill Griffiths and Bob Cobbing to produce in-house volumes of Poetry Review under the editorship of Eric Mottram.

1977

He became print shop manager in 1977, among a wave of poets in London following the lead of the British Poetry Revival whose poetry integrates spatial, sonic and semantic performative concerns.

Early live performance work was in duet with Clive Fencott and then a trio with the addition of Lawrence Upton as "JGJGJJGJG (as long as you can say it that's our name)."

They were, on occasion, joined by Bill Griffiths and Jeremy Adler.

He ran several small press imprints and edited the short-lived magazine RAWZ.

Through work with Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early on their production I Giselle, Cheek became involved with X6 Dance Space and then Chisenhale Dance Space.

1981

In 1981, he was a co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space.

His music and sound collaborations include Slant (a trio with Philip Jeck and Sianed Jones).

Cheek lived in Hackney and Canning Town between 1981 and 1994.

Whilst working for dance and performance artists and improvising music groups he began writing songs with Sianed Jones, performing and recording with Philip Jeck as Slant.

Slant released three albums.

1982

cris later collaborated with Mary Prestidge, Kirstie Simson, Miranda Tufnell and Dennis Greenwood, Patricia Bardi, Michael Clark and Sue MacLennan between 1982 and 1986.

1987

In 1987, Cheek and Sianed Jones traveled to Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar researching into social forms of music and dance.

1994

Jones and Cheek later moved to Lowestoft in 1994.

He was an active member of poetics e-list communities for the following fifteen years.

During this time, he taught performance writing at Dartington College of Arts, working alongside Caroline Bergvall as well as many others.

Cheek also made contemporary vaudeville shows with folk musician Chris Foster that toured to village halls and community centers around England.

Cheek and Jones have a son, Osian Tam.

While working at the Dartington College of Arts, Cheek began teaching with and subsequently working with Kirsten Lavers to produce a substantial web of projects under the author function Thinks Not Worth Keeping, shortened to TNWK.

1995

His radio program "Music of Madagascar" produced for BBC Radio 3 won a Sony Gold Specialist Award (now Radio Academy Awards) in 1995.

He regularly taught performance writing courses at Dartington College of Arts from 1995-2000 where he became a research fellow in interdisciplinary text (2000–2002).

He went on to study "word + image" at Norwich School of Art & Design (1995-8) and earned a PhD in "Hybridising Writing: through performance and collaboration" from Lancaster University in 2004.

1999

A large body of interdisciplinary performance writing was produced in collaboration with Kirsten Lavers under the author function Things Not Worth Keeping between 1999 and 2007.

2005

In 2005, he became a professor at Miami University in Ohio.

2011

He was Altman Fellow in The Humanities Center at Miami University in 2011 and 2012, co-presenting the Networks and Power symposium and a conference on Network Archaeology, from which an issue of the online journal Amodern, co-edited with Nicole Starosielski and Braxton Soderman, was published.

2012

cris was in a relationship, subsequently married to Erin E. Edwards and then divorced between 2012 and 2021.

cris lived in Cincinnati, before moving to Labastide-Rouairoux in Tarn, south-west France in the summer of 2022.

Cheek's creative writing works include:

His works have been published in various magazines, literary miscellanies and anthologies, including:

2017

From 2017 to 2019 he worked alongside Mack Hagood to develop and produce the inaugural season of the podcast Phantom Power.