Conversations Between Borders
Orley, E. (2024). Conversations Between Borders: Cyclical Thinking and Alternative Worlds. Intellect Books.
2024
View OutputScenography, installation and live art, creative-critical writing, site-writing, practice-as-research, heritage and place.
Emily Orley is a London-based artist, researcher and educator, whose work includes performance, scenography, installation, video and hybrid modes of writing. She is interested in exploring ideas to do with memory, maintenance and enchantment, as well as the un-fixing of time, heritage and place. Always open to new forms of experimentation, she is endlessly inspired by lively discussions, new encounters, and unlikely assemblages. She is a firm believer in breaking down the false binaries that separate practice and theory, making and thinking and writing about making.
As well as working on the MA at Guildhall School, Orley supervises a number of PhD students, runs postgraduate workshops on practice-as-research and creative-critical writing and is a member of the steering committee for Guildhall’s undisciplined, the School’s cross-artform collaboration programme for students. She also teaches performance writing on the European Cultural Centre Performance Art Platform.
PhD, PGCHE
Orley taught at Roehampton University for 17 years, where she was a Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance before coming to Guildhall in January 2022. She has degrees from the Wimbledon School of Art and Cambridge and Roehampton Universities and trained at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris.
Orley, E (2022) ‘Editing: An experiment in speculative thinking’. Article/provocation in a special issue of Textual Cultures (15.1) edited by Mathelinda Nabugodi and Christopher Ohge
Orley, E. (2021)‘The invisible boundaries of the moment: at a distance and through a different body’. Chapter in Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing edited by Florian Mussgnug, Mathelinda Nabugodi and Thea Petrou. London: Peter Lang
Orley E. and Hilevaara K. (2020) Review of Mohamad Hafeda’s Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut (2019) with Katja Hilevaara for Jane Rendell’s online platform Site-Reading Writing Quarterly, Issue 2
Orley E. (2019) ‘Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones: Commemorative Performance as an Open-Ended Negotiation’. Chapter in Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration, edited by Michael Pinchbeck and Andrew Westerside, London: Palgrave.
Orley, E. and Hilevaara K. (Eds) (2018) The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice. London: Routledge
Conversations Between Borders
Orley, E. (2024). Conversations Between Borders: Cyclical Thinking and Alternative Worlds. Intellect Books.
2024
View OutputEditing: An experiment in speculative thinking
Orley, E., Nabugodi, M. (Ed.), & Ohge, C. (Ed.) (2022). Editing: An experiment in speculative thinking. Textual Cultures, 15(1).
2022
View OutputThe invisible boundaries of the moment: at a distance and through a different body’. In 'Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing'
Orley, E., Mussgnug, F. (Ed.), Nabugodi, M. (Ed.), & Petrou, T. (Ed.) (2021). The invisible boundaries of the moment: at a distance and through a different body’. In 'Thinking Through Relation: Encounters in Creative Critical Writing'. Peter Lang.
2021
View OutputReview of Mohamad Hafeda’s Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut (2019)
Orley, E., & Hilevaara, K. (2020). Review of Mohamad Hafeda’s Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut (2019). Site-Reading Writing Quarterly, (2).
2020
View Output‘Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones: Commemorative Performance as an Open-Ended Negotiation’. In Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration
Orley, E., Pinchbeck, M. (Ed.), & Westerside, A. (Ed.) (2019). ‘Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones: Commemorative Performance as an Open-Ended Negotiation’. In Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-97970-0
2019
View OutputThe Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice
Orley, E., & Hilevaara, K. (Eds.) (2018). The Creative Critic: Writing As/About Practice. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
2018
View OutputCommémorer le lieu entre terre et papier : une méthode créative pour dialoguer avec les objets patrimoniaux
Orley, E. (2017). Commémorer le lieu entre terre et papier : une méthode créative pour dialoguer avec les objets patrimoniaux. (2017 ed.) Editions l'Harmattan.
2017
View OutputFools and Philosophers: Against Quantification
Orley, E. (2017). Fools and Philosophers: Against Quantification. (2017 ed.) ArtEZ Press.
2017
View OutputSearching Shadows, Lighting Bones
Orley, E. (2017). Searching Shadows, Lighting Bones. Digital or Visual Media https://somethingother.blog/2017/05/25/searching-shadows-lighting-bones-2/
2017
View OutputA Methodology of Locks
Orley, E. (2016). A Methodology of Locks. (2016 ed.) I.B. Tauris.
2016
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