Above: The imaginal anatomy books were made for Jule Fierl and Antonia Baehr for their project "Die Hörtromaune", premiering in Berlin, September 2022.
Photos: Derin Cankaya
Below: The Almanac prints map the constellations of performative encounters between an audience member, myself and a group of river stones from the River Wyre, Lancashire. They then become scores and divination symbols for future performative readings. Click on the right hand side of the image to scroll through.
The Almanac prints were integrated into a collaborative publication Flood Drafts under the expansive collective Hungry Mothers. Edited by Tyler Rai & Marion Storm, and published with LOAM in 2021 the resonance scores live amongst essays, stories, scores, offerings by a collective of artists working at the intersection of ecology, art, performance, land and ancestral repair.
The Yellow Unearthing books are hand-made zig zag books, documenting somatic visions and shamanic journeying carried out over the period 2016-2018, prompted by encounters with socio-political events, materials, place and relationships.
The Almanac zine was published after my ongoing one-on-one performance Almanac, first performed at SPILL Festival of Performance, 2016. It is an almanac of relations and resonances recorded after each encounter with a participant. The participants were invited into a visualisation and imaginal encounter with the body of stones and the body of river. The resonances of each stone constellation that emerged became another score for future encounter.
The Wishbone zine was made as a record of the performance collaboration WISHBONE. Four performers were invited into relationship and encounter with land and ancestral traces. The dances that emerged from this deep memory and collaboration with more-than-human, leave their traces in this memory/score book.
The triangle text is a body of writing that emerged through my ongoing research and relationship with the River Wyre, and the Forest of Bowland, in Lancashire UK. It weaves the encounter with that place, ancestral histories of rupture/enclosure, the resonances of the Pendle witches, and how to re-birth the imaginings of place within structures of oppression or languages of erasure.
A version of this text is printed in “Mattering Spiritualities; Performative Experiments For A Radical Imagining Of The World Becoming” forthcoming (2025), Taylor and Francis.
PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS
“The End is Not An Option; Carrier Bags and the Rhythm of the Bog” commissioned by Roni Katz and Coven Magazine, 2022.
‘Practices of Reciprocity and Witnessing in More-than-human Collectivities’ in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices Special Issue 'Somatics and Eco-Consciousness', 2021.
“River-Stone-Ceremony: Towards a Material Poet(h)ics of human-nonhuman Witnessing” PhD thesis, Goldsmiths Research Online, March 2020.
‘A Site for Unfixing’ interview with Lucy Suggate, for Material II Siobhan Davies Dance, 2019.
'The Performer in Live Art' in The Live Art Almanac; Volume 4. Ed. Keidan, L. Wright, A. Curtis, H. (published for Exeunt 2012, re-printed for LADA 2016)
‘The English Channel’ review of Liz Aggiss for Exeunt Magazine, 2014.
‘Tintern Abbey’ and ‘River Source’ The Interpreter’s House, 2014.
‘Franko B: This is Love’ at Fierce Festival, for This is Tomorrow, 2013.
‘The Ancestors Who Never Left’ PEN Atlas, 2013.
‘Speaking Bodies, Plural Voices’ SARMA Laboratory for discursive practices and expanded publication, 2013.
'Decolonising the Feminine; Idle No More’ Earthlines Magazine, 2013.
‘Wolf Island’ Under the Radar, 2013.
‘Speaking Bodies, Storied Land’; Earthlines Magazine, (shortlisted for Earthlines Essay Prize), 2013.
‘Survival Tactics’ review of Liz Aggiss at Arnolfini, for Exeunt Magazine, 2012.
‘Why Matter Matters; looking at material agency in the poetics of Elisabeth Bletsoe’. Tears in the Fence, 2012.
‘Re-imagining the Space Between’ Dispatches From The Invisible Revolution; ‘New Public Thinking 1: Reflections on 2011’, 2012.
Writer in residence at SPILL Festival, Fierce Festival, Mayfest, In Between Time (2012-2015).