The Lost Gardens of Riga. Dir. Christina Umpfenbach. Homo Novus Festival, Riga, 2013
The English Garden Effect: Phyto Performance, Plant Practices and vegetal Thinking (2014)
This essay explores the emerging idea of plant performance drawing upon the theoretical work of Michael Marder and the performance practices of Christine Umpfenbach in Riga, and Forster & Heighes in London.
Miroslaw Balka, How It Is, Tate Modern Turbine Hall, London, 2013
The Emaciated Spectator and the Witness of the Powerless (2010)
This essay, one of a number developing a counter intuitive approach to Jacques Ranciere’s well-known formulation of ‘the emancipated spectator’ was first tried out at the Prague Quadrennial pre-meeting in Riga, Latvia.
Professor of Chemistry, King’s College London, Strand, 2008
Abandoned Practices and Endangered Uses (2010)
The artist Beryl Robinson realised the potential of this research during a symposium with Isabelle Stengers in 2008 and is developing related projects. Here I mark the work of Marvin Gaye Chetwynd at Nottingham Contemporary in a parallel universe of performance.