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Words
Florence offers art writing services for artists, galleries, and arts organisations.
If you are interested in commissioning a text for your exhibition
or project please get in touch.
Recent texts include:
Ruth K. Burke, Of Love: A Labor, Co-Prosperity, Chicago
Susan Simonini, Glimmer, Handmark Gallery, Australia
Lindsay Mapes, In Stitches, Smithson Projects, UK
PUBLICATIONS
Interspecies Performance, forthcoming edited book with Prof. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, published by Performance Research Books, 2024
'Significant Others: Thinking With Care In Interspecies Performance' Portuguese translation
published by Latin American Journal of Critical Animal Studies,
December 2021
'Significant Others: Thinking With Care In Interspecies Performance'
Conference paper presented at Cosmopolitics 'Animalisms' conference, March 2021
'Becoming-with-Animal: An Ecofeminist Performance Practice' published by the academic journal Performance, Religion & Spirituality Vol 2. Issue 2. in May 2020
'The Empowered Practice of Becoming-with-Animal'
Commissioned for the exhibition Sleeping with A Tiger (2020) at K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos, Greece, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis
'Becoming-with-Animal: Cultivating A Feminist Understanding of Human-Animal Transformation in Contemporary Performance'
MA Thesis - Shortlisted for faculty thesis prize
TALKS
Research presentation for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
University of Surrey, February 2024
Research sharing, Cove Park Scotland, December 2023
Near Dwellers, panel discussion with Sarah Le Quang Sang (SLQS)
Street Road Artists Project Space and the Tree Museum, September 2023
Visiting Artist Series, Illinois State University, September 2022
Propositions Lecture Series, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, September 2022
Dialogue in Creative Practice, Techne Student Led Event, May 2022
Regrowth & Resistance, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London, 2021
Cosmopolitics Conference: Animalisms, Brazil, 2021
Interspecies Collaboration, University of Surrey, 2021
Polder Animal Symposium, Netherlands, 2020
Nicole Beutler Projects, Amsterdam 2019
RESIDENCIES
Techne funded research residency, Cove Park, Scotland, December 2023
Techne Funded PhD placement, Cove Park, International Artist Residency, Scotland, 2023
Researcher in residence, Illinois State University, US, 2022
Follow the Land with Grampus Heritage, Cyprus, 2021
Producer Farm, UK, 2020
Onassis Foundation, Athens, 2020