The Polis Series was an inter-disciplinary collaboration which explored questions about the performativity of knowledge. It hoped to critique and enact some of the ways in which knowledge is generated in terms of a poetics of the body in performance.

Essay commissioned by ArtsAdmin for Noemi Lakmaier’s piece ‘One Morning in May’. Located in Miscellaneous Articles folder 4.

Pamphlet from Harmsworth’s Magazine, August 1899. Illustrated short story pamphlet.

This booklet tells the story of just one building in the vast metropolis of London – 60 Farringdon Road. Neither particularly distinguished nor particularly old, the building’s past – and that of the immediate neighbourhood of Clerkenwell – illustrates the ebb and flow of city life and commerce, the arriving technologies, fortunes and fashions.

Through fact and fiction, questions and answers, writings from the heart and writing from the street, Common chronicles one day of a Self-Appointed-Artist-in-Residence in the City of London. Performances occur and reoccur as this book takes us to crashes in global markets, turbulence in the Euro-zone, riots on hot summer nights and the most extraordinary imaginings.

This catalogue was published as part of the exhibition “She’s a Tough old Broad – A Social History of Metro Arts”. Small catalogue in folder.

An artists’ book documenting an intervention in a derelict house in North London. Due to the delapidated condition of the house, the public could not visit the house, so Terry Smith made a photographic record of individual impressions of each room.

Performance text. In Nights in this City, Forced Entertainment takes its audience on a coach tour of various locations in Sheffield. The performance consisted of commentary by two consecutive guides, a series of staged interventions in the city streets and other unpredictable events. Small booklet in large folder.

Catalogue of the work presented by the artists representing Ireland at the 26th biennial on “Free Territory” extraterritorial zone where artists erect their utopian settlements. Includes audio CD (see REF. D1968).

A collection of four videos documenting the result of a collaboration between Frenchmottershead and the members of Southwark community.