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Texts from the body

Commissioned text for Palgrave Macmillan’s Performance and Technology book series; editors based at Brunel University.

Draws on William James’ writing on ‘the stream of consciousness’ to examine artist Bruce Gilchrist’s use of the body as a laboratory to explore inarticulate thought. Understandings emerging from this text concern Gilchrist’s efforts to translate the immaterial and somatic into something

material and visible; to make the body speak its unconscious experience.

Based on a long-running collaborative enquiry (since the 1990s): for example,

Warr, T. (2013) ‘On the Tip of My Tongue’, Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 6:1, pp. 107-125 – reflects on a workshop I ran with Gilchrist on artist/writer collaboration, funded by HEA, organised by Writing Pad.

This text is part of a body of research through writing practice, as an embedded writer working closely with artists including:

(2013) ‘Finding a Different Way Home: Misha Myers in conversation with Tracey Warr’, in Merskimmon, M. & Row, D. eds. Women, The Arts & Globalization, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 67-84;

(2013) ‘The Practice of Space: Hayley Newman and Emily Speed’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester:

http://www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk/event/hayley-newman-emily-speed/;

(2013) ‘Mellow Fruitfulness: brook & black’, Plot 16: The Fermenting Room, IXIA: http://ixia-info.com/new-writing/plot-16-the-fermenting-room-return-of-

the-rhizome-brook-black/;

(2012) ‘Camouflage, Dazzle, Display’, in Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own, Melbourne: Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi / Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, np.;

(2012) ‘Consensual Art: Cyril Lepetit’, in Wharf, Caen: Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, pp. 478-497. [French & English]

(2009) ‘Raw Presence’, in Hadzi-Vasileva, Elpida, Motectum, Gloucester: Artsway, np.