PUBLICS
Helsinki
9 October 2024
Uniarts Guest Expert
9 October 2024
Radio Buena Vida
feature broadcast
14 April 2024
Fetch
feature interview
18 March 2024
Keynote at the British Art Network Conference
25 November 2023
Winter Papers
feature interview
1 November 2023
Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh
30 May 2023
History of Present opera-film
19 April 2023
Opera-film. Written and co-directed by me, with artist filmmaker Margaret Salmon and composer Annea Lockwood.
Edwin Morgan Poetry Award
22 August 2022
Edinburgh Book Festival
19 August 2022
Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency
1 June 2022
Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories
21 January 2022
Special screening and reading at Northern Ireland’s Feminist and Queer Art Histories symposium, The Courtauld, London.
CARPA7 Colloquium on Artistic Research
Uniarts, Helsinki
27 August 2021
Keynote presentation at Performing Arts Research Center (Tutke), Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki Colloquium on Artistic Research.
History of the Present opera-share
Royal Opera House
12 July 2021
Mollspeak
Museum of the Home
12 June 2021
Eleven-channel sound installation and radio broadcast. Shortlisted for the 2023 New Music Scotland sonic art award.
British Art Talks
Paul Mellon Centre
28 April 2021
Me talking about the encounters, materials, voices and texts that have shaped my writing: Audre Lorde, Quatermass, Jon Snow & Gerry Adams, Leigh Bowery.
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s
15 April 2021
My keynote at the conference 'Aftereffects and Untold Histories, Politics and Spaces of Performance since the 1990s'.
Unlocking Collections
School of Advanced Study
18 March 2021
Writing is... Art
Maynooth University
16 March 2021
A Belly of Irreversibles - reading
Bluecoat
19 February 2021
Practice Research Assembly
The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
4 November 2020
Abbey Theatre award
Abbey, National Theatre of Ireland
3 November 2020
Flash Art feature
11 June 2020
Royal Opera House Engender Fellowship
Engender
8 March 2020
TO SEE AND KNOW MORE - event
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
31 January 2020
Research Writing Studio
international research collaboration
16 January 2020
De-localising Dialect
AHRC funded network
15 November 2019
Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship
Scottish Book Trust
1 August 2019
I was awarded the The Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, an annual award from the Scottish Book Trust.
ECZEMA! record launch
Accidental Editions at South London Gallery
5 June 2019
On the Creative-Critical
Institute of English Studies & UEA & National Centre for Writing
1 June 2019
Legend of the Necessary Dreamer - radio
Radiophrenia
16 May 2019
Nine Qwerty Bells
Whitechapel Gallery
8 May 2019
Bothy Project residency
Eigg
18 March 2019
art & education interview
8 March 2019
Gestures Writing that Moves Between
Whitworth Gallery
15 February 2019
Along the Peaceline
BBC Radio 4
13 December 2018
ECZEMA!
National Theatre Wales
28 July 2018
VOICE OBJECT VOICE
Radiophrenia
19 November 2017
Art Writing is an Aesthetic Catalyst
Aarhus Literature Centre
2 September 2017
Extratextual
Contemporary Calgary
1 September 2017
El tejido continúa en lo ilegible
Aeromoto, Mexico City
5 August 2017
We Human Creatures Must Find Our Match in Scale
Arnolfini, Bristol
11 May 2017
Fiamme
IUAV University of Venice
5 May 2017
Feminist Library Cataloguing
Leeds College of Art
20 April 2017
Whatcha Doin', Marshall McLuhan?
BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature
19 March 2017
In conversation with Jessica Harrison and Jonathan Owen
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
15 March 2017
Dialecty
The Common Guild, Glasgow
18 January 2017
Art and its Theatrical Turn
University of Glasgow
26 November 2016
The Influence Machine: a conversation
University of Edinburgh
23 November 2016
International Literature Festival Dublin
27 May 2016
Hauntings
21 May 2016
Master Rock book launches
30 March 2016
Experimental Writing
London
18 March 2016
Curatorial Studio
CCA, Glasgow
30 January 2016
We are no longer needed by what we created
The MAC, Belfast
23 January 2016
A reading of a newly commissioned piece to accompany Felix Gonzalez-Torres' solo exhibition at The MAC in Belfast.
Master Rock
15 October 2015
Caesura
Edinburgh
12 March 2015
In conversation with Vivienne Dick
LUX Scotland
11 January 2015
PhD Researchers Collective
9 December 2014
In Conversation with Duncan Campbell
The Common Guild
2 October 2014
Punctum: Reflections on Photography
Salzburger Kunstverein
25 July 2014
Aarhus Literature Centre
28 June 2014
Moving Mountains Conference
University of Edinburgh
18 June 2014
An international conference on mountains studies in place, society and cultural representation.
Legend of Ashlar
Art Neuve
3 March 2014
Mediating Landscape
Flip Project Space
19 February 2014
Jim Elkins Conversation
16 January 2014
Hawthornden Fellowship
14 December 2013
The Happy Hypocrite 6 launches
24 October 2013
With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form launches
23 October 2013
Artists Moving Image Festival
28 September 2013
Artists Moving Image Festival at Tramway, Glasgow, examining the ecology of art work. I presented two Belfast-made television documentaries at this diverse range of film, video and performance.
Lisbon Architecture Triennale
Writer-in-Residence
16 September 2013
Canongate Future 40
2 September 2013
Adaptation
Collective Gallery
1 July 2013
Adaptation is a phased year long project considering the effect that changing circumstances can have on forms, with Banu Cennetoglu & Philippine Hoegen, Maria Fusco, Dominic Paterson and Sarah Tripp. I am working on writings based on the film roles of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland.
What Would Thomas Bernhard Do?
Kunsthalle Wien
23 May 2013
International Art Writing Seminar
Aarhus, Denmark
14 March 2013
Tyrone Guthrie Centre
24 July 2012
The Happy Hypocrite art writing readings
2 June 2012
Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions
16 June 2011
Cove Park
Residency
2 June 2011
London Word Festival
3 May 2011
The Mechanical Copula Launch
5 November 2010
COSEY COMPLEX
27 March 2010
COSEY COMPLEX came crashing into consciousness one Thursday afternoon near Kings Lynn as Cosey Fanni Tutti and I talked about, amongst other things, how nomenclatures can numb, nurture, pay and percolate concepts into life. This wonky process of taxonomy got me thinking on the train back to London if Cosey could be methodology in and of itself.
Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing
21 November 2009
Maybe the world's first Festival of Art Writing? This parley-based event took as its eponymous starting point issue three of The Happy Hypocrite, Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading, as usual themed by methodology, as usual not themed by content.
Living Clay
Art Writing Readings
22 September 2009
Living Clay was a series of bi-monthly reading events, co-hosted by myself and an invited publication, about art writing as a meeting place for deduction, disagreement and debate, part of my role as Writer-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery. Guest publications included: Cabinet (New York), The Happy Hypocrite (London), Fillip (Vancouver), MATERIAL (Los Angeles) and F.R. David (Amsterdam).
Who is this who is coming?
Arts Writing Symposium
18 June 2009
A two-day symposium discussing the practice of contemporary art writing at Whitechapel Gallery, London, as part of my role as Writer-in-Residence there. Speakers included: Beatrice Gibson, Jennifer Higgie, Craig Martin and Alexandre Singh.
Make an Icon Out of Popcorn
27 March 2009
An experimental one-day publishing project devised by myself, and produced in collaboration with APFEL A Practice for Everyday Life, Art Quarters Press and Matt’s Gallery, London.
Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism
Conference
27 February 2009
A two-day international conference held at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. Participants included: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, Maria Fusco, Markus Miessen, Tom Morton, John O’Brian, Kristina Lee Podesva, Jordan Strom, William Wood and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Put About Conference
Tate Modern
27 November 2004
