Chapter 1
Rose Higham-Stainton
Rose Higham-Stainton is a writer and critic based in Norfolk. Her work is held in the Women’s Art Library at Goldsmiths College and published internationally in LA Review of Books, Texte Zur Kunst, Apollo and The White Review, Art Monthly, Bricks from the Kiln, Worms and X-Tra in LA. She has written several chapbooks including Herēma (Sticky Fingers Publishing) and Limn the Distance—her first book, is out with JOAN publishing.
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė is a Lithuanian artist and a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Film and Screen, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on artists’ moving image installations and their capacity for affect and experiential critique. Geistė works at the intersection of film and screen studies, contemporary art, and philosophy. In her creative photographic and moving image practice, she explores notions of belonging, alienation, and the unknown. Overall, Geistė's practice is defined by encounters with the eerie, which is understood to be both the cessation of a comfort zone — whether self, human, habit, habitat, milieu — and alertness to a yet-to-be-identified presence. Since 2014, her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Norway, Taiwan, South Korea, and China.
Hannah Levene
Hannah Levene is a writer living in Norwich. She runs PIGS publishing platform. Her poetry can be found littered over the internet. And her novel Greasepaint is forthcoming from Nightboat books in February 2024.
Philippa Snow
Philippa Snow is a critic and essayist. Her work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Los Angeles Review of Books, ArtReview, Frieze, The White Review, Vogue, The Nation, The New Statesman, and The New Republic. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and her first book, Which As You Know Means Violence, is out now with Repeater.
Deva O'Neill and Embers choir
Embers are a choir based in Norwich, singing traditional folk from the UK, Balkans and Caucasus. This iteration features singers Deva O’Neill, Nina and Lori Guthrie, Cecily Eno and Lydia Gluck. Recorded and produced by Charlie Crampton.