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Writing into Place

This publication arose out of the 2023 Group Residency WRITING INTO PLACE that was held in the remarkable landscape, environment and community of the Orkney Islands, in Scotland.

The residency was devised by Tracy Mackenna, Curator, The Museum of Loss and Renewal and was lead by Tracy and invited partner Dr Emily Orley, artist, researcher and educator. Between us we activate diverse skills and expertise when we employ text, language, writing, publishing and performative modes of working to investigate place(making), (un)belonging, memory, (personal)narratives and imaginary futures.

The aim of the residency was to develop ‘writing’ and approaches to ‘writing’ that are experimental, inventive in their form, and that respond to place, in a specific environment. Creating a new international network was made possible by bringing together residents from a range of countries and practice and research areas, and this publication is the celebration of that new community.

Writing into Place
A co-publication by The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publishing & PUBLICAR

Contributions / pages
Cella, Rosie Cunningham, Jean Shields Fleming, Lauren Kayes, Anna Tallach Kennedy, Giovanna MacKenna, Polly Poupore, Priscilla Poupore, Alison Scott, Antonia Thomas, Rebecca Ford, Emily Orley, Tracy Mackenna, Fernanda Aránguiz M..

Edited by
Tracy Mackenna & Fernanda Aránguiz M.

Designed and programmed by
Fernanda Aránguiz M.

Photography by
Esméemilja Mackenna

Navigation drawings by
Tracy Mackenna