Debatable Lands Volume Two: 'These Debatable Lands'
ISBN 978-0-9560266-0-6
Wild Conversations Press, Bristol for TRACE, 126 pages. Colour and black and white images throughout, includes DVD. £20.00 plus p&p
Thisis the second collection of texts, images and time-based work to be published by Wild Conversations Press as a result of Iain Biggs’ ongoing Debatable Lands project. With an Introduction and further visual work by Iain Biggs this publication provides a series of responses to Debatable Lands Vol 1 - In Debatable Lands (2007) – a publication with contributions from Samira Abbassy, Jane Millar & Professor Gary Peters. The responses in the new volume range in form from video – on the DVD provided with the book - through text-based artwork to academic essays. Directly or indirectly these works continue the ‘deep mapping’ of an imaginal relationship between traditional ‘supernatural’ Borders ballads taken as ‘spectral traces’ and the contemporary world, in particular the USA. In addition to exploring that relationship, this multi-layered publication is also an experiment in collaborative creative work across the boundaries that divide both different academic disciplines and the university and the creative arts.
The contributors: Dr Iain Biggs is an artist and the Director of PLaCE, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Dr Jo Carruthers is a Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, UK. Prof Maria Damon is a poet who teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Minnesota, USA. Geraldine Finn is Professor of Cultural Studies and Philosophy at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Ullrich Kockel is Professor of Ethnology and Folk Life at the University of Ulster. Mary Modeen is an artist teaching at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, Scotland. Ann Mulrooney is an artist working in the Irish Republic, Rowan O’Neill is a singer and performance artist working in Wales. Dr Angela Piccinni is Head of Education in Drama, University of Bristol, UK. Dr Bill Prosser is an artist and Centre Fellow, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, UK. Dr Margaret Werry is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota.
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ISBN 978-0-9560266-0-6
Wild Conversation Press is proud to announce its collaboration with the charity ‘Invest in ME’ in publishing Lost Voices from a hidden illness compiled, edited and designed by Natalie Boulton.
This book combines a visual and textual auto-ethnography by thirty-one chronically ill individuals suffering from the medical condition Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) and their carers, Natalie’s own explanation of the politics surrounding the treatment of that condition, and supporting texts by a number of experts in the field. This campaigning book combines respect for its contributors with a passionate desire to cut through the obfuscations that have led to the misinterpretation of ME as a behavioural condition rather than a physical disease. The book’s diverse material is brought together and presented through a highly creative approach that owes much to the editor’s original training as a visual artist.
This 120 page, 21x29.5 cm soft bound book is printed in full colour and can be obtained directly from Invest in ME at www.investinme.org Read More...