As I’m busily working on my manuscript, I’m sharing work-in-progress extracts and visuals. It sometimes feels a little exposing sharing work like this, but I think the benefits of opening up outweigh the cons. Here’s to openness…
Writing Residency 2023
Thank you to the wonderful Berlin-based group of writers who organised our recent writing residency in the countryside. Much progress was made – to be shared soon.
So tired, the sea: editing of poetic video lecture
Belated post from 2020/21!
Aural-visual editing for Astrida Neimanis’ poetic lecture, So tired, the sea, with a performance by Dominique Baron-Bonarjee, presented at Lofoten International Art Festival and other art events, 2020-22.
Repeater Books Reading Event in Berlin
If you’re in Berlin, come by Shakespeare & Sons Bookstore this Sunday June 19, 2022 for a reading with fellow Repeater Books author Cynthia Cruz. I’ll be reading one extract from my book published by Repeater Books and one extract from my forthcoming book.
The new extract is called ‘You speak like a green girl’ and I’m very excited to share it!
‘Aliens are temporary,’ exhibition, Berlin
“The Tunnel of Fun emerges from a curatorial proposal to author Siouxzi Connor: to write a fictional text inspired by the works of the artists who begin the project and the first mutation in order to estrange the curatorial voice, counteracting its supposed objectivity, omniscience and uniformity. Siouxzi Connor welcomes this invitation and begins her writing process with a dream she herself had months ago. In this dream, “as if Ursula K Le Guin had visited her from beyond the grave”, Siouxzi woke up with other invisible people in a dark and damp container, moving towards an idealized and luxurious nature, exceptionally comfortable for human beings. The strong presence of water in this first oneiric environment brings to Siouxzi Connor’s writing the watery thinking of Astrida Neimanis, as well as the reflections of Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren on the narrative of landscapes and the tragedy stemming from our amnesia towards our common life with all that is non-human.By introducing some of the elements that are part of the pieces in the exhibition space, The Tunnel of Fun makes them present by revealing and concealing them in the vibrant flow of writing.”
– 𝗞𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗻/ 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆: Sonia Fernández Pan, Sylvia Sadzinski , Anaïs Senli
Words by Siouxzi Connor
Voice by Nikki Jones
Sound editing by Sara Pereira
More about the exhibition:
“Aliens are temporary weaves together artists whose works produce alternative (cosmo)visions, creating bodies, identities and ways of inhabiting the world related to otherness and alterity. Their works combine different practices of knowledge, parasitising them from the experiential, sensitive, haptic and aesthetic qualities of art. Through new materialism, biology, magic, sociology, sound-fiction, post-humanism and science fiction, the works form an environment thatembraces speculative, vitalist and queer-feminist perspectives while constituting and constructing discursive embodiments.”
𝗞ü𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗹𝗲𝗿*𝗶𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗻/ 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗯𝘆: Ally Bisshop, Sarah Browne, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra), Lúa Coderch, Siouxzi Connor, Ann Cotten, Cruhda, Efe Ce Ele, Denise Ferreira da Silva & Arjuna Neuman, FRKTL, Pakui Hardware, Emily Hunt, Nona Inescu, Lorena Juan, KAYA (Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers), KMRU & Aho Ssan, Vera Kox, Verónica Lehner, hn. lyonga, MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Isabel Paehr), Sofía Montenegro, Jonás de Murias, Silvia Noronha & Niko de Paula Lefort, Itziar Okariz, Lucía C. Pino, Lauren Reid, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Juli Schmidt, Valeria Schwarz, Anaïs Senli, Eirik Sördal, Alison Sperling, Sally von Rosen, Janaina Wagner, Sadie Weis, Leticia Ybarra, Ran Zhang.
New book contract with Repeater Books
Big news!
I’ve just signed a publishing contract with the wonderful Repeater Books for my next book. After the 2017 release of my first book, Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing), also published by Repeater, I can’t wait to begin working together again on this brand new project…more soon.
The Repeater Book of the Occult
Late last year I contributed a short piece to a very special occult anthology book from Repeater Books, The Repeater Book of the Occult.
As the book was published in the thick of the pandemic, the first in-person book launch took place only recently in Estonia. The book’s co-editor, Tariq Goddard, and illustrator Christiana Spens, were accompanied at the event by local musicians, for a discussion and recorded readings from Carl Neville, Claire Cronin and myself.
It all took place in a suitably low-lit, historical space celebrating this evocative collection of horror writing.
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Photos by Eve Maria.
Synopsis
Exploring the history of mysticism, the Occult, and “the grey zone between what appears and what is,” editors Tariq Goddard, Eugene Thacker, and a party of contributing Repeater authors including Rhian E. Jones, Carl Neville, Leila Taylor, Claire Cronin, Siouxzi Connor, Tristam Adams, Elvia Wilk, and Christiana Spens, explore their favourite classic horror tales in this beautiful hardback volume.
Current Research
My current research, with the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, looks at the gendering and sexualising of natural landscapes in film, literature and art. The work enquires, from a posthuman, postfeminist, material ecocritical perspective, how the story-making process could be used to advocate for more-than-human nature?
As part of this research, writing and filmmaking process, I will soon undertake a residency at the Library of Water, Iceland, following in the footsteps of Roni Horn, Anne Carson and Rebecca Solnit.
The WØMB Symposium for Gender Equity
Now in Berlin organising the Symposium for Gender Equity with The WØMB. I will also be hosting a panel discussion on Feminism in the Age of the Anthropocene. Looking forward to discussing ecofeminist planetary survival strategies with the wonderful panelists!
Join us on Saturday August 31 for an intense and enriching day of masterclasses, talks, workshops and discussions.
Australian book launch & screening in Sydney!
Very happy to be launching “Little Houses, Big Forests (desire is no light thing)” on home soil in Sydney.
We will also screen the accompanying film “In the dark, dark room” and I will read an extract from the book.
For full details, see the event page at: Facebook.com/SiouxziConnor
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