Conversations Between Borders: cyclical thinking and alternative worlds

Chapter published in Socially Engaged Creative Practice: Contemporary Case Studies, edited by Jess Moriarty and Kate Aughterson, Intellect, 2024

This Land of Stones and Stories

Short piece accompanied by drawings by Tracy Mackenna. This grew out of a week-long artist’s group residency in 2022 with The Museum of Loss and Renewal in Collemacchia, Italy, who later published the work.

It is a response to listening to the people who belong to that place talk about their experiences of it, over time (e.g. Tracy Mackenna’s own childhood memories, Luciano Bucci, curator of the Winterline Museum in Venafro), but also listening to stories about bigger histories of the place (the ravages of extreme poverty and mass migration, the Second World War, the Battle of San Pietro), as well as to conversations between fellow residents about what was being read and made then and there.

Editing as Creative Act: an experiment in speculative thinking

An article/provocation published in Textual Cultures Special Issue: Creative-Critical Provocations, Vol. 15 No. 1. 2022. Edited by Mathelinda Nabugodi and Christopher Ohge.

Re-write the Rules

A Walking Recipe published in The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking & Wellbeing, curated by Dee Heddon, Claire Hind, Harry Wilson, Carole Wright, Clare Qualmann, Morag Rose and Maggie O'Neill. May 2022

Part of a larger project: Walking Publics/Walking Arts: walking, wellbeing and community during COVID-19

The Invisible Boundaries of the Moment: at a distance and through a different body

Chapter published in Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing, edited by Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi and Thea Petrou, Peter Lang, 2021

Bath time

Short piece published in Overground Underground, Arts and Literature Magazine Issue 2, edited by Michael Sutton. Autumn 2021.

Reading Mohamad Hafeda’s Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut

Review created with Katja Hilevaara in Reading Writing Quarterly, Issue 2, March 2020

Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones: Commemorative Performance as an Open-Ended Negotiation

Chapter published in Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration, edited by Michael Pinchbeck and Andrew Westerside. Palgrave, 2018

The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice

A co-edited collection with Katja Hilevaara. Routledge 2018

Fools and Philosophers: against quantification

Chapter written with PA Skantze, published in Theory||Arts||Practices, edited by Peter Sonderen and Marijn de Langen. ArtEZ Press, 2017.

Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones

A script, a performance, an essay in 27 parts, about radiology, migration and memory, as well as my grandfather. Published as part of the Second Chapter ('On Migration'), of Something Other, a website created and compiled by Mary Paterson, Maddy Costa and Diana Damian Martin.

Commemorating the Place Between Land and Paper: a creative method for engaging with heritage objects

Chapter published in Mémoires et Patrimoines: des revendications aux conflits, edited by Céline Barrère, Grégory Busquet, Adriana Diaconu, Muriel Girard, Ioana Iosa. Editions L'Harmattan, 2017

(Translated by Céline Barrère: 'Commémorer le lieu entre terre et papier : une méthode créative pour dialoguer avec les objets patrimoniaux')

A Methodology of Locks

Chapter written with Ella Finer and PA Skantze published in Poetic Biopolitics: Practices of Relation in Architecture and the Arts, edited by Peg Rawes, Timothy Mathews, Stephen Loo. I.B. Tauris, 2016

Making Making Matter: Paper as Paradox in Practice-as-Research

Article written with Katja Hilevaara published in the online journal RUUKKU: Studies in Artistic Research, Nr 4: Process in Artistic Research, 2015

In the Emptiness Between Them

A Jane Rendell-esque site-writing in response to a sound installation by Ella Finer: Where We Meet Volumes 1 and 2, Galerie8. London, September 2012

(Photo © Kitty Walker)

Places Remember Events: towards an ethics of encounter

Chapter published in Liminal Landscapes: Travel, Experience and Spaces In-between, edited by Hazel Andrews and Les Roberts. Routledge, 2012

Performing Place, Recalling Space: a site-specific installation/constellation in London

Article in Body, Space, Technology Journal (volume 09.02), edited by Sue Broadhurst and Barry Edwards, 2010

Getting At and Into Place: writing as practice and research

Article in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, version 2.2, edited by Claire Hind and Susan Orr, 2009