"The Death Drawings" in Under One Roof, Maelor Press /  by Traci Kelly

This book will be launching next month.

It holds very diverse contributions from artists that have worked from Stiwdio Maelor in Corris, Wales. Happily I was one of them and my short writing "The Death Drawings" is nestled in there amongst good company. It has been a huge undertaking for a private residency space. I'm posting up now because if you preorder the book before May 31st May you also receive a complimentary small woven basket from Veronica Calarco's 900 baskets project.

Cost is a modest £12 plus P+P

It can be ordered by email: stiwdiomaelor@gmail.com

Thank you to the following people for all your effort in realising this publication.

@stiwdiomaelor @veronica.calarco @pippabc70 @earl.livings @tentative_line

Leveld Kunstnartun Artist-in-Residence 6 May - 01 Jun 2024 /  by Traci Kelly

I’ll be spending some focussed time in the beautiful hills of Norway where I’ll be continuing some work on textile pieces. These pieces are building towards a summer performance and an autumn exhibition… more on those later. Most likely other works will emerge inspired by the location and a different type of studio space. The early summer light and the peaceful surrounds are calling.

https://www.leveldkunstnartun.no/english-1

Sorbet 2024: Muslin, glass, glow-in-the-dark thread

Out now: The Routledge Companion to Performance and Medicine /  by Traci Kelly

My writing about Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow) 2013 contributes a chapter in this book.

The book is full of diverse and interesting contributions and the editors Gianna Bouchard and Alex Mermikides have done an amazing job bringing it all together.

The text centres upon a 45-minute site-specific performance ‘Xenograftie (Artificial Sorrow)’ which took place at the leprosy museum in Bergen, Norway in 2013. The performance creates a lens to view how bodies pressurised by sickness are further stripped of autonomy when medically claimed as automatic research donors. It explores central characters and subject positions in the 19th century that were pivotal in the understanding and treatment of leprosy. These subjectivities are creatively interwoven with my own experience at a young age of medical institutions. It brings into focus how medical procedures sometimes run ahead of ethics with both noble and base intentions to end suffering and win accolade. At the core of the text lies the potential for historical medical trauma to transition into a culturally significant event. In a knotty relationship with following beneficiaries of medical advancement, it raises to the surface the troubled experiences of usurped bodies and collateral damage that underpins their gain.

In additon, I’ve attempted to bring information about previously published texts into one place.

Carving the Landscape /  by Traci Kelly

Opening at Galerie Gedok on Wed 20th September at 19:00 and running until 30th September

Wed - Fri 16:00 - 19:00, Sat 13:00 - 16:00

Opening night durational performance Force Nature, a collaboration between myself and Elle Short, where a Lichtenberg Figure will be etched into skin.

Carving the Landscape is an expanded printmaking exhibition including video and sound works.

Artists: Christian Eickhoff (DE); Traci Kelly (UK/DE); Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde (NO); Rita Marhaug (NO); Julia Wenz-Delaminsky (DE).

Studio 3000 at Kunstvarteret, Lofoten 13 Juni - 6 Juli /  by Traci Kelly

Studio 3000 consisting of artists Traci Kelly, Julia Wenz-Delaminsky and Christian Eickhoff (Germany) will be in residence at Kunstvarteret, Lofoten, within the arctic circle. They will be working alongside Norwegian printmakers Rita Marhaug and Kjellaug Hatlen Lunde, taking part in Trykk i Santid - a live art production event on the theme of carbon taking place on summer solstice, 21. Juni, 16:57, 2023. In addition they will spend time on their joint project Carving the Landscape, embracing an expanded field of print making with a public sharing 02. Juli, 19.00, 2023

‘flesh-breath-bone: encounters with the archives of Traci Kelly and hancock & kelly’ /  by Traci Kelly

LCB in Leicester, UK, on Monday Feb 20.

Excited to announce that the archives of hancock & kelly and Traci Kelly have been acquired by De Montfort University (UK).

The archives will be housed at the Special Collections Department, and form part of the research and study at the Institute of Drama, Dance & Performance Studies.

The acquisition will be launched with an array of newly commissioned works in response to the archives by a collective of DMU graduates, undergrad and postgrad students, as part of the event ‘flesh-breath-bone: encounters with the archives of Traci Kelly and hancock & kelly’ at LCB in Leicester, UK, on Monday Feb 20.

This event is part of a wider project, funded by De Montfort University, focused on Creatively Innovating the Archive, co-ordinated by Alissa Clarke , Harriet Curtis, Elinor Parsons, and 'Funmi Adewole.

hancock & kelly ‘An Extraordinary Rendition’. Photo credit : Rachel Parry

UnEdging Bodies /  by Traci Kelly

18th January 2023: Artist talk and workshop for MFA Performance students at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart.

Exploring body remnants, bodily productions and touch across species.

Invited pedagogue by Liz Rosenfeld as part of their seminar Edging the Self