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Clare Archibald

I am a Scottish writer/artist working across forms and mediums to explore ideas of time, place, articulation, motion, memory, archive and encounter. My experimental practice is concerned with process and learning, the between spaces of the real and imagined, individual and collective, private and public, autodidactic and academic and where, how and why we house these experiences/states of being. Predominantly place/encounter and often conceptually based, working with the flux and tension of built and natural environments and exploring the poetics of layers, transformation and connection, my practice utilises my interest in the sway of repetition, the blur of imperfection, the beauty of dismantle, and the not knowing.

Working internationally my expansive yet largely DIY practice incorporates solo, collaborative and collective work, including creative dialogue with the global public via my Lone Women in Flashes of Wilderness project. I am widely published in independent and academic presses and journals, have released three albums (with extensive radio play, and live performance), screened my artist films, installed sound, and exhibited visual art across the UK, Ireland, USA, France, Peru and Denmark and have been funded to undertake site specific work in Lanzarote and Italy. My multidisciplinary body of work on expected neonatal death and the UK baby ashes scandal has been acquisitioned to be held by the Wellcome Collection.

I work with text, image, sound, materials, objects, vocals, performance and place. I have conceived and curated events, given artist talks, conducted interviews, performed stand-up comedy, made puppets, created assemblages, published books and zines, and much more and have worked with a range of locations and methods including solo forest remote radio broadcasts, disused underground oil tankers, urban night walks, and public participation as well as the conventional such as literary festivals and poetry events.

In short, I follow my interests and try stuff. I disabled my sites as the former host supports the ongoing genocide in Palestine; I am still considering what I do next in rebuilding. In the meantime, you can contact me via versionsofundefined at gmail dot com.