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Fiona Glen

–– writer –– artist –– editor ––


~fresh work out with ~ CWYR zine, Strings ~

Projects
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  1. Shapeshifter: Tracing the Cultural Octopus
  2. Mycoglossia with Nina Hanz – HVTN Press
  3. transient guardians – Magical Octopus + De Gids
  4. Meat Dreaming – Sticky Fingers
  5. Slimy, Sticky, Sweet – Aww-Struck + SPAM
  6. Ground Up – ICA x BBC New Creatives
++ OTHERS

Workshops, Courses + Programmes
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  1. HUM MURMUR MUTTER – Camden Art Centre
  2. Attendant Writing – LOT + Glengall Wharf
  3. Inside Your Mouth – Camden Art Centre
  4. Gut Feelings – TACO!
  5. Playing Houses – Flat Time House
  6. *immersions – Al Ma’amal
++ OTHERS

Poetry
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  1. Unflock – Strings
  2. Wriggler + Squid – Brilliant Vibrating Interface
  3. As Silica – Dark Mountain 24
  4. On Alberto Balsam – Broken Sleep anthology
  5. Boundless + Transmission – Pollination
  6. Yeast + Headtail – Tentacular Magazine
++ MORE

Essays 
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  1. Being is a tender strength – Prototype 5
  2. Leaves, Alive and Otherwise – Still Point
  3. Heal Underfoot – Simulacrum
  4. Turning – Letters to the Earth
  5. Welcome to Elsewhere – NOIT Journal
++ MORE

Experimental Writing
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Mark

Graphic: Fiona Glen

Gut Feelings 


Experimental writing workshop on digestion and the gut, created and facilitated in collaboration with fellow artist and writer, Esme Boggis. Gut Feelings was commissioned and hosted in autumn 2021 by TACO! – an independent art space in Thamesmead, London, UK.

In this four-hour collaborative session, Esme and I offered a creative and open space for participants to discuss materials, write, and share reflections. All were then invited to present their pieces publicly through a newspaper-style zine publication – ’The Digest Reader’ – which I compiled and designed. You can find out more about this mini-publication here. The Reader was launched with a live showcase at TACO! in December 2021, which included readings, film and sound performances.

Our gut is lengthy, weighty, coiled tightly in the core of our bodies. It is forever present but out of sight, gurgling and growling, communicating its digestive processes. What if we found opportunities for the body to speak for itself, allowing the unsung parts to bellow? What if we engaged with digestion through a metabolic form of writing?




     



Use writing to mimic the movement of digestion.

You might use words for their sounds, or how they look, or their descriptive effect.





   

 
    

Images: Fiona Glen and Esme Boggis