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Publications & Writings

2022

A Hypothesis of Resistance, part 1/5, On Asynchronicity, Cally Spooner; Mousse Magazine, Issue 81, 2022

2021

SWEAT SHAME ETC., Cally Spooner with Laura McLean-Ferris; Swiss Institute

STILL TIME, Jazmina Figueroa on Cally Spooner at gb agency, Paris. Texte Zur Kunst, Berlin, 2021

2020

Cally Spooner: On False Tears, edited by Andrea Villani, Roos Gortzak, Vanessa Boni, Hatje Cantz, Berlin

The Paradox of Stillness, edited by Vincenzo de Bellis, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Parrhesiades, Volume I, 2019-2020, edited by Lynton Talbot

2018

United in Stomach Flu, London Weeps, Cally Spooner in Obieg, Issue 8; Ujazdowski Castle, Centre for Contemporary Art

Cally Spooner: And You Were Wonderful, On Stage, Cally Spooner and Meret Kaufmann, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and Mousse Publishing

2017

Cally Spooner: Scripts, edited by Cally Spooner with Andrew Hunt, Slimvolume

A Lecture on False Tears and Outsourcing, Cally Spooner in Hotel Theory Reader; Fillip and REDCAT

Dance: Roundtable Discussion, Cally Spooner with Maria Hassabi and Charles Aubin, Kaleidoscope, 29

2016

Cally Spooner: Scripts, edited by Andrew Hunt and Cally Spooner, with an introduction by Will Holder, Slimvolume

Conversation about a Glass Wall, interview with Dan Graham, On False Tears and Outsourcing, exhibition catalogue, New Museum, New York

On False Tears and Outsourcing, Cally Spooner and Hendrik Folkerts, exhibition catalogue, New Museum, New York

A not so sad September (Eco’s Open Work today.), essay, Flash Art International, Issue 308

On False Tears and Outsourcing, Peep Hole Sheet, Issue 28

Collapsing in Parts (excerpt), in Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000-2015, edited by Jennifer Liese, Paper Monument

2015

The New Elvis, essay, S1 Sheffield and Glasgow Sculpture Studios

Synopsis, text, The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, exhibition catalogue, Jerwood Visual Arts, London

About a Work No2, published by YiWAB and ZERO…, Milan

2014

Losing My Body To Time, score, Mousse Magazine, Mousse Publishing

2013

Collapsing in Parts, novella, Mousse Publishing, Milan and International Project Space, Birmingham

Indirect Language (Act 1), An exhibition to hear read: Volume 4, radio play, Jeu de Paume

A Solo Event for Thinking (Version Two), E.R.O.S #3, EROS Publishing

2012

The Erotics of Public Possibility, essay and poster distributed by post, International Project Space

2011

Indirect Language (Act 8), An exhibition to hear read: Volume 3, radio play, David Roberts Art Foundation

Indirect Language (Act 5), FR DAVID: “Spin Cycle”, radio play, de appel arts centre

Indirect Language, An exhibition to hear read: Volume 1, radio play, Synagogue Du Delme

The Observer’s guide to the Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon — Compiled in One Voice by Will Holder, Serpentine Garden, Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London

2010

Notes for a pending Performance, Session_12_Words +Untitled, Krabbesholm Højskole

Something Blue; A Curiosa of Contemporary Erotica, compiled by Neue Alte Bruecke (launch at Pilot, Landings, Oslo)

2009

December 1952, catalogue, Chelsea Space

Press Articles (selection)

2021

STILL TIME, Jazmina Figueroa on Cally Spooner at gb agency, Paris; TEXTE ZUR KUNST

2019

Focus on Europe, Droste Effect, Interview with Cally Spooner, by Marco Antelmi, March 28

2018

Texte zur Kunst, Composition as Explanation, by Annie Godfrey Larmon, June (issue #110)

Mousse, DRAG DRAG SOLO, Cally Spooner and Ginevra Bria in conversation, April

Mousse, Post Performance Future, by Marie de Brugerolles, April

Le Temps, Cally Spooner, ou la prose décomposée, by Jill Gasparina, 15 March

2017

Mousse, Staging Affect, by Sabrina Tarassof, #57, Feb-March

Art Review, Nah! Nah! Nah! Cally Spooner’s manufactured pop, Oliver Basciano, online, Oct

Kaleidoscope, Dance: Roundtable Discussion, with Charles Aubin and Maria Hassabi, #29, Spring

The Observer, A time-bending experience, review of Speak, Serpentine Gallery, by Laura Cumming, March

2016

Mousse, Cally Spooner interviewed by Cecilia Alemani

Artforum Diary, Pacific Fiction, by Trinie Dalton, 12 Aug

Mousse, Cally Spooner interviewed by Stella Bottai, No 54, June

White Review, Cally Spooner interviewed by Alice Hattrick, No 16, April

Mousse, Double Exposure, Cally Spooner and Marguerite Humeau interviewed by Sam Thorne, No 53, April

Frieze, Reading Pictures, by Patrick Langely, issue 179, April

Metropolis M, Michael Portnoy & Cally Spooner: Twee Musicals, April

Purple Diary, On False Tears and Outsourcing, May

Frieze, Rag-Picking, by Kirsty Bell, 27 March

Frieze, Critic’s Guide: New York, by Orit Gat, 2 May

Art Review, Must See: Cally Spooner, Stedelijk Museum, by Martin Herbert, Jan-Feb

Mousse Blog, Book Club 2.0, ZERO…, Milan, 6 May

2015

Art Forum, Top Ten, Cally Spooner, May

Art Forum, Critic’s Picks: Cally Spooner, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, by Amelia Groom, 30 July

Art Monthly, Cally Spooner: Post-production, Spike Island, Bristol, by Lizzie Lloyd, June

Atractivo Que No Bello, Cally Spooner and the Conflicted Self, by Jean Kay, 18 Aug

The Guardian, British Art Show 8 review — a long haul in art’s touring caravan, by Laura Cumming, 11 Oct

The Telegraph, British Art Show 8, Leeds, review: varied and entertaining by Mark Hudson, 9 Oct

This is tomorrow, Cally Spooner: Post-production, Spike Island, Bristol, by Rowan Lear, June

Contemporary Art Daily, Cally Spooner at Vleeshal, 28 Aug

Nippertown, FILM: On Screen/Sound No. 8 at EMPAC at RPI, Review by Jeff Nania, 2 Dec

The Fix Magazine, Must See Monday — Events of the Week, Cally Spooner at Spike Island, by Kevin McGough, 13 April

2014

Frieze Magazine, Issue 163, Said & Done: Cally Spooner’s work explores how technology and new media are making performers of us all by Alice Butler, May

Phaidon’s Frieze interviews — Cally Spooner, 15 Oct

Exeunt Magazine, Review: And You Were Wonderful, On Stage, by Diana Damian Martin, 21 Jan

Female Arts, BMW Tate Live: Cally Spooner - performance review, by Katie Richardson, 23 Jan

Art Review, Previewed, Cally Spooner at gb agency, Paris, Sept

Because Magazine, Bright Young Things, 8 May

Artslant, London, Frieze on the cheap: Frieze Sounds, by Phoebe Stubbs

Life, language and London’s last Lunch Bytes, Review: The search-engine-isation of communication, by Jean Kay, 1 Dec

Metropolis M, Pool: the various features of our digitalized present, by Melissa Canbaz, 17 May

2013

Frieze Magazine, Issue 152, Review, Cally Spooner, international Project Space, Birmingham, by Alice Butler, Jan-Feb

This is Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Magazine, Review: Performa 13: Cally Spooner: And You Were Wonderful, On Stage, by Binghao Wong, November

2012

Art Review, Future Greats: curators’ choice, Cally Spooner, by Andrew Hunt, March

Art Monthly, Review, The Department of Wrong Answers, Wysing Arts Center, Cambridge, by Laura Allsop, May

Frieze Magazine, When Art Speaks: A Report from the Two-Day Performance Event I Proclaim, You Proclaim, We Proclaim, by Vivian Ziherl, November 14

The White Review, Pending Performance: Cally Spooner’s Live Production by Isabella Maidment

The Herald, Mark my words, trio stages exhibition that puts fresh spin on editing, by Jan Patience, September 20

2011

Artforum, Cally Spooner, Collapsing in Parts, by James Eischen, 23 Dec

Mousse, Issue 30, Interview with Cally Spooner, by Michele Robecchi, Oct/Nov