An exploration of running as metaphor, methodology, material through the RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale #r3fest 2016

Abstract

is an artist and curator. Through installation, performance, film and text, she explores the body and mind in (com)motion. Since 2009, the focus has been on running as an arts and humanities discourse, and her role has been described by artist Professor Gregg Whelan as 'instrumental in the UK and lots of other contexts in pulling together all sorts of writers, artists, academics and performance-makers to come together and to start to form what might become to be called "Running Studies"'. The first run of her curated RUN! RUN! RUN! Biennale was praised by the Guardian for its 'positive atmosphere' (2014). Before she ran, she swam, hopped, skipped and drowned. The results have been shared at Documenta, Royal Geographical Society, Biennale of Sydney, MOMA, BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, and a few are collected by the Museum of London and Fukuoka Art Museum.