Jo Joelson Author

Tracey Warr writes fiction and non-fiction. She has published two medieval novels, Almodis (Impress Books, 2011) and The Viking Hostage (Impress Books, 2014). Almodis was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writing and for the Rome Film Festival Book Initiative. She is currently working on two new novels: one set in 11th century southern France and Catalonia featuring a female troubadour, and the other set in the 23rd century on the south Wales coast, contemplating a future of climate change and its environmental and social impacts. Her publications on contemporary artists include A Study Room Guide to Remoteness (LADA, 2014), Setting the Fell on Fire (Editions North, 2009), The Artist’s Body (Phaidon, 2000) and essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization (Manchester University Press, 2013), Intimacy Across Visceral and Digital Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Sensualities / Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Panic Attack!: Art in the Punk Years (Merrell, 2007), Art, Lies & Videotape (Tate, 2003), Marcus Coates (Grizedale, 2002) and London Fieldworks: Syzygy / Polaria (Black Dog, 2002), She also writes book reviews for Times Higher Education, New Welsh Review and Historical Novels Review. She is currently a commissioned writer in the Frontiers in Retreat project working with Jutempus in Lithuania and undertaking writer’s residencies at Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera, Spain and HIAP, Helsinki, Finland. London Fieldworks (LFW) is the collaborative practice of artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson, formalised in 2000 and based in east London. Having formed a notion of ecology as a complex inter-working of social, natural, and technological worlds, they create installation, sculpture, architecture, film and publications with works made for the gallery, the landscape and the public realm. Recent exhibitions and commissions include Dover Street Market New York; Microwave Internat