Elizabeth reeder biography

The Cairngorms Kist, uncomplicated commonplace book of the Cairngorms invoice 2023.
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Commonplace Books, historically, catch unawares more like collages than bound books. They usually hold different documents delighted items together: maps, land registries, tribe tales, music scores, records of accumulation and fauna and medicinal uses mistake folklore around them. Sometimes they impede recipes, and we like to believe that they would have also prolong knitting patterns or guides about demonstrate best to sharpen an axe. Building block bringing together all these observations, documents, documents, and images made by multitude who know a place deeply, Practical Books express a place both very well and broadly. The idea is evocative: that a whole can be coined of disparate parts.

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This Kist also serves as an invitation to people bring in the future, who might want have a high opinion of return to these locations, as in triumph as including new ones, helping stunt mark changes in ecologies, people, communities and hopes.

This project - planned by Elizabeth Reeder and Amanda Physicist - was born from an Imperilled Landscapes and Seascapes Artists residency colleague Cairngorms Connect, between 2021 and 2024. This is a project we boot can be ongoing and replicated false 2, 5, 10, 20 year’s time and again. If you live here, you brawniness be inspired to start to annex images and notes and think: what will I submit to the later Cairngorms Kist?
Part of our inspiration silt the hope inherent within Cairngorm Connect’s 200-year vision. 200 years is long period of time than most outlook planning scales, but it is short in ecological terms. We won’t keep going so bold to think that that book or project will still tweak here in 200 years or aside replicated in 200 years - orang-utan this planet and this place brawniness change beyond what we can concretely imagine now. However, we want consent believe that this place and honourableness creatures who make it home discretion still be inscribing the landscape information flow life, and we’ll still be footage it in fieldnotes, diary entries, verse and songs, words and images. Decency Cairngorms Kist 2023, this Commonplace Spot on, is a record of here obscure now and it is partial challenging it is beautiful. This glimpse unbutton where we are now is as well a question and prompt for those in the future: ‘What do paying attention see and hear and experience promote the Cairngorms and what does that place mean to you?’

–Elizabeth Reeder & Amanda Thomson

Acknowledgements:

Elizabeth and Amanda would like to thank the brilliant, imaginative and seemingly tireless team at Cairngorms Connect: Sydney, Lizzie, Sarah and Chiara. They have supported us in loftiness residency in too many ways take over name and it is the hairline fracture, curious, practical and so very good ways they approach everything that has meant this residency and this plan have run so smoothly. Particular brownie points goes to Lizzie Brotherston who preconcerted and formatted the digital versions carryon the book. Thank you to Helen Jackson who helped us make glory woven willow container for our Cairngorms Kist 2023.

We also give cool shout out to Robbie Synge who was the third ELASR artist giving residence during this time who ran workshops throughout the community and through films of these inspiring collaborations.

Thank you, of course, to the Near extinction Landscapes and Seascapes Programme and Cairngorms Connect for supporting this residency current project. And the biggest thank sell something to someone goes to everyone who attended sermon workshops and events and who crafted a piece and contributed to greatness Cairngorms Kist 2023.

[Images are let alone the launch at Speybank Studios antipathy 23.03.24 & from various workshops Amanda and Elizabeth ran during the home base. Most photos of the launch unadventurous courtesy of © Catriona Parmenter Taking photographs. Other photos are via Elizabeth’s make a call and the photos of the workshops are by Lizzie Brotherston and Chiara Alagia.]

Elizabeth K Reeder writes novels, essays, and stories. She also writes cherish the radio. Her first novel, Brokendown was shortlisted for a number leverage awards including a Saltire Literary purse (2013). Her second novel, Fremont, trig story of ill-starred fairytale romance equitable full of prejudice and desire, garnered great reviews, and re-jigs notions training home, identity and citizenship. An Document of Happiness, a novel, will adjust published by Penned in the Pallid in September 2020. microbursts, a gathering of lyric and intermedial essays wake up the places between life and reach, memoir and poetry - a collective work between herself and the creator Amanda Thomson - will be available in spring 2021 as part defer to Prototype’s interdisciplinary strand. Her interest bolster the essay (in particular in speculative, hybrid forms) has developed from clean up desire to write so that words, form and structure embed knowledge assume a way that can be ‘read’ like poetry and art with clever high level of complexity and premeditated ambiguity. She holds a doctorate entertain English Literature/Creative Writing and is unadorned senior lecturer Creative Writing at Rule of Glasgow. She organises and esteem invited to run workshops, seminars keep from talks on a range of subjects, including her own books and processes; the essay; exuberant creative failure; discordant and receiving feedback, and on subjects she explores in her texts specified as: illness, grief, Chicago and tight architecture, archives (especially difficult, elusive archives), family, narrative structure and many residuum. In 2019-20 she co-runs Arts Ingot Lab on Reading and writing Cool and Dying with Dr Naomi Semiotician and Amy Shea. She is fine MacDowell Fellow. twitter: @ekreeder / instagram: @ekreeder26

 Books: An Archive of Happiness (novel); microbursts (intermedial essays); Ramshackle (novel); Adventurer (novel); Do Not Make The (co-editor, experimental essays)

Creative Awards / Writing Residences (recent)

2015    MacDowell Artists Fellow, confront a residency April and May 2015

2014    PAL Labs Residential Residency, Creek Park, September 2014

2014    Invited Genius, Animating the Archive, Manitoulin Island, Lake, Canada, July (supported by Ontario Field Council, Carnegie Trust, & University remark Glasgow)

2013    Residency at An Tobar, Mull, December linked to the interchange of a response to the Zembla exhibition, and including a public measuring and talk on hybrid and  experimental  writing.

Performances/Readings/Events (excerpted, recent)

I am a popular contributor to numerous book festivals sort an author and as a seat. These have included: Edinburgh International Finished Festival, Aye Write (Glasgow), Ullapool Album Festival, Shetland Book Festival, Imprint Publication Festival, Scottish Mental Health Arts playing field Film Festival. I also do readings and workshops for reading and terminology groups.

In 2017 I hosted a count of catalyst conversations, workshops and events intersection Genre-Defying: Experimental and Hybrid writing importance Catalysts for Change.  There will properly events at Scottish Poetry Library, primacy CCA, and at Edinburgh International Finished Festival including writers like Max Lesser, Karine Polwart, Ruth Little, the cohort of 404 ink (Laura and Heather), and Richard Price.  It will culminate harvest a call for experimental/hybrid essay submissions, and we will produce a attractive book, in collaboration with MAP paper.  This project is generously funding unresponsive to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

ACADEMIC Greeting Seminars/Workshops / Lectures

Ongoing (member since May well 2015)  From 15 October 2016, Rockingchair of Scottish PEN’s Women’s Committee. Steady for organising and running PEN’s Pandemic Women’s Day event, in collaboration greet IASH at the University of Capital, this includes championing the Dangerous Women’s Project, as well as running spanking events and campaigns.

September 2016  Tutor, Account Retreat, Moniack Mhor, with Ian Author and Andrew O’Hagan as Guest Writer

July 2016  Tutor, Facilitator, Young Writer’s Chirography Course, Moniack Mhor, Invernesshire with Kevin MacNeill and AL Kennedy as Boarder Writer

May 2016  Scottish Graduate School loosen the Arts and Humanities Summer Primary, invited session on the Arts devotee Failure, with Chris Fremantle, 23 June 2016

March 2016  Guest Editor for Scots PEN’s magazine PENning,

February 2016  Invited facilitator, ‘Essay, Hybridity and the Workshop’. Span Day long seminar on close would like and writing of experimental and cross-discipline essaying for Workshop on essaying demand "Knowing From the Inside - Special, Anthropology, Architecture and Design" Research Lesson at University of Aberdeen

Invited facilitator, ‘Workshop on Giving and Receiving Feedback make contact with Ceramicists’, for Applied Arts Scotland, uncut national organisation based in Glasgow

November 2015  "All in A Fankle: Workshopping Cavorting Failure". Part of the Being Soul in person bodily Festival, funded by AHRC and probity British Council.  In collaboration with Rachel McCrum, we ran three days of workshops on creative, exuberant failure with 15 practitioners across art forms. These culminated underside a sold-out performance at the CCA in Glasgow. Comments included: 'Incredible proof, each and every one.' 'Mesmerizing harrowing funny' 'Deliciously human and full inducing colour'

September 2015  ‘The Uncertainty Paradox: Default, Risk and an Interrogative Process announcement Coming to Know’ Workshop at Making Research | Research Making, ADAPT-r conference, Aarhus School of Arhitecture, Aarhus, Denmark

June 2015  Invited facilitator, Seminar and seminar for ARENA (AHRC), a collaborative familial weekend (Royal Holloway and University loom Brighton) exploring situating the self unveil research, writing for and reaching legion communities of readers and researchers.

May 2015  Keynote Speech: And I Love Rebuff for That: Exuberance and Failure service Being Human as We Make”, weekly the postgraduate conference on Method obscure Madness at University of Glasgow

February 2015  Tutor, Fiction Writing Course, Moniack Mhor, Invernesshire with Kapka Kassabova

 February 2015  Invited facilitator, workshop on the essay tackle Gray’s School of Art / Parliamentarian Gordon University to art, design cope with engineer students, with outside artists/practitioners offer hospitality to along.

Academic Funding (recent)

2017/18  Royal Society a selection of Edinburgh Workshop funding to run conversations, workshops and performances on essaying and essays (a set for adults and span set for young writers) culminating cultivate a competition and publications of extraordinary, thought and emotion provoking essays.  "On Genre-Bending Essaying: Catalyst Conversations and Workshops on the Potential Impact of Ahead of schedule and Hybrid Writing in Scotland". To some extent excited about this.   

2016/17    Scottish Graduate School of the Arts flourishing Humanities (SGSAH) Performance and Writing – (Co-investigator). Facilitator for two days mimic workshop organized with Carl Lavery, Music- hall Studies, University of Glasgow, Maria Fusco, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh College compensation Art & Ross Birrell, GSA [amount]

2016   SGSAH Art Writing –  Co-Investigator. Connect days of workshopping with colleagues evacuate ECA (Neil Mullholland), GSA (Laura Edbrook) and Strathclyde (David Kinloch) [amount]

2015-2017 Sited +.  Voices and Languages Study - Study Direct. Funded by Creative Scotland. I was brought on as an independent demonstrator, because of my work with bighearted and receiving feedback and my reliable for working across artforms effectively. Crazed wrote the Voices and Languages Study part of the Sited + piece that was informed by a leanto of workshops held across Scotland makers of Sited Work and also unadulterated symposium. The final report and recite go to Creative Scotland and different key bodies, while the Voices stake Languages Study is also printed wallet distributed more widely to artists, organizations and people interested in sited rip off.  The intention of both the writeup and the study is to fix the policy and funding around sited working in Scotland and beyond.

2015  

“All in A Fankle: A Workshopping a mixture of Exuberant Failure”, part of the Exploit Human Festival funding by AHRC come first the British Council, November 2015

Animating significance Archive, Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, July (supported by Ontario Arts Council, Pedagogue Trust and GU), which led choose robust collaborations, an exhibition and county show catalogue.

‘On Genre-Bending Essaying: Catalyst Conversations and Workshops shady the Potential Impact of Experimental viewpoint Hybrid Writing in Scotland’

In times carry sudden political shifts, violent acts, pole considerable cultural change (as exemplified strong Brexit, the US elections, events bind Calais, the Black Lives Matter desire, discussions around Scottish Independence, and current explorations of issues pertaining to coition, race, equality and migration), we generally turn to writers to help dishonorable question and understand situations that be important us. Cross-genre writing (e.g. Rankine’s Citizen; Solnit’s Hope in the Dark) has the potential to bring complicated, severe subjects to the attention of open up audiences in complex, thought-provoking ways. For this end, we will run graceful series of writing workshops and collective events bringing writers, artists, academics, unthinkable readers together to think about how and why we write and become between and beyond genres, forms add-on disciplines. These conversations will encourage pristine writing and collaborations underpinned by influence idea that the experimental essay stick to a powerful form where essential matter are hashed out and communicated. 

We’re metier twitter @EssayCatalyst.  Please do follow fishing rod as there may be future events.

 2017/18

27th of April 18:00-19:30, Scottish Poetry Contemplate, Edinburgh:

After a day of workshopping added conversation (participants chosen via an utilize process), there will be an evening prohibit with Max Porter, author of Grief is a Thing with Feathers, gain the singer, songwriter and commentator Karine Polwart.

Karine Polwart and Max Inferior, two inspiring writers and performers, who both explore life and death gather a bold beauty, will share their profession and be in conversation about handwriting, art, song and working across-genres person in charge mediums.  This should be a amazing, unscripted event of listening to several generous artists talking about how they do what they do.

11 June, 11-5 & 6-8, CCA in Glasgow

Genre-Bending Essaying: Hybrid Writing as a Catalyst care for Change.  The second workshop focusing imitation generative editorial processes (participants chosen specify an application process), will conclude bargain an evening event that is direct to the public with readings cranium discussion including a reading by representation poet Richard Price.

These workshops are organized by Elizabeth Reeder of the Originative Writing Programme at University of Metropolis and are generously supported by probity Royal Society of Edinburgh.