Endings

A final post for 2021, to celebrate the fact I finished my PhD this year and passed my viva. Am … More

Goodbye to a legend

Last night I had the honour, and in many ways the privilege, to open the series of speeches at Books … More

Recently I had the pleasure of doing two talks outside my normal teaching context (Birkbeck, University of London): one for … More

After having worked as an associate editor on the series Fabrications for independent art(ists’) book publisher Book Works in 2006-2009, … More

I will be speaking at the upcoming John Berger Now conference in Canterbury on 12 September. The invitation for submission … More

Three times lucky for me: I’ll be talking at Birkbeck again this morning. Drawing on notions of authorship and translation, … More

Not strictly talking about a specific book, but I will be in conversation with graphic designer Stuart Bailey this coming … More

I have been invited to talk about publications in relation to film and video work at a conference in Zurich next … More

Having spent two days in the very ‘koselig’ bookshop space of Oslo’s Cappelens Forslag (and its very intimate back room-cum … More

On 31 January and 1 February I will be contributing to and participating in a workshop about writing, editing and … More

I got to know Alexandra P. Spaulding, or Alex, when she did her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, … More

On Monday 25 January 2016 I did a talk at CASS, upon invitation of Ania Dabrowska, a long-time friend, photographer … More

After having worked with several ‘mentees’ of the CVAN Creative Writing programme, a quick update with links of texts they … More

As part of Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West’s Critical Writing programme, initiated by Rosemary Shirley and Elaine Speight, I … More

Contemporary Visual Arts Network North West (CVAN NW) is organising a programme of six critical writing workshops. The workshop and bursary … More