Plot-twists
An assortment of plot-twists from the lingering summer of 2022.
Places
Malvern Hills
In Malvern, a circular walk through a complex decade in the life of Radclyffe Hall. From White Cottage to St Wulstan’s across the ridge, and down again, the route meanders from Catholic devotion and literary endeavour to self-fashioning and fascist disposition. A walk reflecting a life that is often contested but rarely re/viewed directly in these formative landscapes.
A Well of Discrepancies: Hall and Company
A short history of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and companions in Malvern.
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Cottage Industries
A (field/notes) collection of notes and reflections by biographers and critics about White Cottage and the Malvern years.
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Fieldnotes: Brendon Hill
A genealogy of ‘speculating’ with a lens – think-with Haraway (1988), Massumi (2002) and Barthes (1982). Share how photography has been instrumentalized for land management, a poem from Radclyffe Hall about a particular view of the valley from the Malvern Hills to Upton she liked.
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negotiating
A visual set of notes and conversations related to working in and with archives related to Radclyffe Hall and the Malvern Hills.
Domiciliation Fever (or sweltering shelter)
Making sense of a rather hot week in the archives.
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Church Hall and Other Specters
Hall’s Catholic conversion with Mabel Batten and the séances Hall and Troubridge turned to after Batten’s death — devotion explored, sustained, and defended.
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Sussex
Images, maps, and references from Lewis to Bewick via Monks House, Charleston, and Berwick Church
Mixing Audio and Video Test
Mixing audio and video from different locations while reflecting on themes of belonging and landscape conflicts.
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