Cris Cheekcris cheek is a postpunk transatlantis maker and framer of playful marks with alphabetic language, with sound, with voice, with light and with the body growing up in London is hard-wired through his circuitry: early influences were with the Consortiu of London Presses, working alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths in the COLP printshop, and performing multi-voice pieces with PC Fencott, Lawrence Upton, and sometimes Jeremy Adler with jgjgjgjgjgjgjgjgjg (...as long as you can say it that's their name) with Marshall Reese, Kirby Malone, Patty Karl, Nora Ligorano, Chris Mason and others for the festival of disappearings arts in Baltimore with Mary Prestidge, Kirstie Simson, Sue MacLennan, Philip Jeck, Jacky Lansley and Fergus Early at Chisenhale Dance Space in London's east end, with book-maker poets Allen Fisher and Ulli Freer with poet- theareticians Carla Harryman and Steve Benson with soundart as John and Mary Outchan on Balsam Flex, with Philip Jeck and Sianed Jones, Ansuman Biswas, and Samia Malik as Slant, with Kirsten Lavers as tnwk (things not worth keeping) with cloven. for the past dozen years cris has lived and worked in south-west ohio at miami (myaamia) university and lives in cincinnati. Read More Read Less