TaPRA 2019

Tilting PointI propose a presentation that starts and departs from a reading from the final chapter of my collaboratively written 'sonic detective novel', Necessary Note (co-authored with Rebecca Collins, forthcoming from Copy Press in 2019). This chapter's title, 'Tilting Point... Read More →

When Death is the Author:Performing the Ghost and Collective MemoryIn this paper I am looking at contemporary spiritualism and historical spirit mediumship in Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, where I’m currently based as a lecturer (and practitioner-researcher). In looking at mediumship... Read More →

Balconies: Eastern Europe and the poetics of discontinuity “as an artist, I learned from both East (socialism) and West (capitalism)” Mladen StilinovićOne of the most widely circulated images of the Romanian revolution of December 1989 is of the last public appearance of dictator... Read More →