Contained within my artistic practice is both an obsession with pop culture (the clichéd motif of Elvis, the energy of the punk movement, the unavoidable barrage of TV, advertising and Disney magic that meets me as a 21st century human and artist) and a growing performative quality (the immediacy, the intimacy and the honesty of expression I find in performance art). But how to bring these together as one? Various conversations on this topic have led me to research some artists who seem to have done so. Firstly, Warhol - through his film, the communal comings and goings of The Factory and his work with the Velvet Underground, he pushed pop on to a stage while the performance art of Fluxus was still in its early days. In the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, we see pop come alive in a grandeur construction of art, noise and bodies. William Pope. L parodies american culture, playing with ideas of race, urbanity and art. In The Great White Way, Pope. L utilizes the archetypal american symbolism of superman to do so, donning the costume and crawling 22 miles along Broadway, Manhattan's longest road. Spartacus Chetwynd celebrates film, television and theatre, devising elaborate group performances full of colour, costume and visual references - the main prop in her piece Brain Bug pays homage to 90s sci-fi epic Starship Troopers. Paul McCarthy, however, uses pop references to satirize and undermine the political establishment. In Piccadilly Circus, performers are dressed in exaggerated forms of world leaders and run amok causing chaos and gradually destroying their own forms. I wrote recently about the work of Mathew Sawyer and his 'documentary works'. Sawyer is a socially conscious artist, interested in interactions and reactions between himself and others. Cultural references have become a tool to do so, such as 'It'll All Come Out in the Wash', in which he plants lyrics from David Bowie's Heroes in a strangers pocket. To date, my only foray into a pop/performance crossover has been Transmission, in which I re-enact Ian Curtis' iconic dancing, exploring ideas of communication and replication. I am currently developing plans for further performance pieces in which pop references can be used to engage the viewer.