Gardens Speak is an interactive sound installation containing the oral histories of ten ordinary people who were buried in Syrian gardens. Each narrative has been carefully constructed with the friends and family members of the deceased to retell their stories as they themselves would have recounted it.

This book contains the narrative text of those ten oral histories in both English and spoken Arabic, as well as an an introduction by the artist, and illustrations of the audience experience in Gardens Speak.

Includes:

Model Behaviours publication (AFFECT module I); in English; 2014

Mit freundlichen Gruessen exhibition catalogue; in German; 2013

promotional postcards; in English; 2014

This book brings to light the historical significance of five women artists – Yoko Ono, Yayoi Kusama, Takako Saito, Mieko Shiomi, and Shigeko Kubota, who were among the first Japanese women to leave their country – and its male-dominated, conservative art world – to explore the artistic possibilities in New York.

Charting the rise of the immersive theatre phenomenon, this is the first survey of immersive theories and practices for students, scholars and practitioners of contemporary performance. It includes interviews with immersive artists and examines key topics such as site-specific performance and immersive technologies.

This book presents a theory of audience participation in the theatre, based on the importance of the moment of invitation and how an event changes character when such an invitation is made.

 This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5196.

One-to-one promenade performance that spread across unused spaces in The Arches, a multi-use performance space in Glasgow. Howells led participants in a journey through fourteen sites and 'confessed' to them an autobiography.

Arches Live, 2007.

68 minutes.

 This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5192.

Drawing on the popular entertainment form 'An Audience with …', Howells creates a performance in which an audience of around 25 is invited to share memories and experiences with his alter ego.

Blurred recording. 2006.

2 hours 36 minutes.

This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5202.

Adrienne's Dirty Laundry Service – Arches New Work Commission (2003), 22:16 

Adrienne's Room Service at The Great Eastern Hotel (2005), 8:50

 This DVD is currently missing. The digital file can be viewed in the Study Room. The reference is EF5201.

Four monologues, interspersed with game-show antics requiring audience participation.

53 minutes. Unknown date.

An edited collection of work made between 15th and 25th September 2010 for b-side festival. Drawings by Joff Winterhart ; text and design by Sue Palmer. Includes a CD with the song composed by the piece.