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    2023
    Ventriloquism, Performance, and Contemporary Art
Edited By Jennie Hirsh, Isabelle Loring Wallace
(London and New York: Routledge, 2023)
This volume calls attention to the unexpected prevalence of ventriloqual motifs and strategies within contemporary art. Engaging with issues of voice, embodiment, power, and projection, the case studies assembled in this volume span a range of media from painting, sculpture, and photography to installation, performance, architecture, and video. Importantly, they both examine and enact ventriloqual practices, and do so as a means of interrogating and performatively bearing out contemporary conceptions of authorship, subjectivity, and performance. Put otherwise, the chapters in this book oscillate seamlessly between art history, theory, and criticism through both analytical and performative means. Across twelve essays on ventriloquism in contemporary art, the authors, who are curators, historians, and artists, shine light on this outdated practice, repositioning it as a conspicuous and meaningful trend within a range of artistic practices today.
     
    Birds and Language
A bumper new issue of Unlikely Journal edited by Madeleine Kelly and Jen Valender
My contribution is in the Project Space, titled
Now and Then: Buln Buln encounters Common Blackbird

There are two components to this issue -
Issue 08 Birds and Language
and
Project Space Birds and Language
With thanks to Jan Incoll of the Sherbrooke Lyrebird Study Group
    2022
   

Going Out - Walking, Listening, Soundmaking
Edited by Elena Biserna with Julia Echhardt, Henry Andersen, Caroline Profanter,
Q-02/Umland Press Bruxelles 2022 ISBN : 978-90-8264-956-7
This contribution is a polyphonic/writerly extension of
OH! AH AH PREE TRRA TRRA

   

Upcoming publication: Clover, C and Baker, S A Silence of Storks in Life With and Without Animals: Interspecies Encounter, Loss, Ethnography, and Communication ed. by Angela Bartram and Paula McCloskey, Intellect, UK

    2020
   

Writing the Birds: Barrawarn in the inaugural edition of Inscription: The Journal of Material Text, edited by Gill Partington, Adam Smyth and Simon Morris, Leeds Beckett University and Information as Material, UK.
Launched 28 Sept at the Bodleian Library Oxford

   

Untie the Tongue in Translating Ambiance edited by Jordan Lacey, Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts Issue 06, Australia. An article that extends the content of the installation Guyup Guyup: Scores for Eight Songbirds that considers the sonic relationship between native and introduced songbirds in Melbourne, Australia

    Upcoming In a Manner of Speaking book chapter as part of Ventriloquism and Contemporary Art Editors Jennie Hirsch, Maryland Institute College of Art, and Isabelle L Wallace, Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. Publication date 2020/2021
    2019
    Clover, C, Heading South into Town Alexandra Böhm (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) und Jessica Ullrich (Universität der Künste Berlin, der Europa-Universität Flensburg und der Kunstakademie Münster) (eds) Animal Encounters: Kontakt, Interaktion und Relationalität JB Metzler (Deutsch) ISBN 978-3476049384
    Clover, C Hereabouts Lyric essay for Antic Magazine published by Sabita Naheswaran and Julian Novitz. While the intrinsic threads of this essay lie with my creative interests in sound and interspecies exchange via listening, language, animal and voice, the apparent elements include the biographic and a focus on place/home, and how home manifests in multiple ways. At this point I realise I have lived long enough to reflect in some vaguely useful way upon the pathways of my own life.
    2018
    Clover, C, Reading Aloud Matters a short article about the role of reading aloud in my art practise. Published in December 2018 in Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 46, Winter 2018 ed Giovanni Aloi
    Clover, C, Jardines del Pedregal de San Ángel audio & text in the Ecomusicologia section of Animalia Vegetalia Mineralia Número 10, Ano 5 an online ecological journal edited by Ilda Teresa Castro, Portugal. A bilingual journal, English follows Portuguese Link to full issue here
    2017
    Clover, C, Heading South into Town: Ipipipipipipipip, ah yeah, um, we’re gonna, yeah, ip in What is Zoopoetics? Texts, Bodies, Entanglement Eds Kári Driscoll  and  Eva Hoffmann, pub Palgrave MacMillan ISBN: 978-3-319-64415-8
    Invisible Places Sounding Cities Selection Committee Member Azores Portugal
    Clover, C, Hallsten, J, and Jones, S L, Sounding Site: listening, mingling, index and reciprocity in the field with Johanna Hällsten and Shauna Laurel Jones. Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts, Issue 02 Online Journal Australia
    2016
    Clover, C For the rest of today partly cloudy (for numerous voices) is an article written for Iris Garrelfs' online journal Reflections on Process in Sound. Melbourne based Catherine Clover presents her expanded species-bridging approach to language, exploring urban birds through a framework of everyday experience.
    2014
   

Clover, C and Pyke, S Dreamers, splitters and murderous crows: feminist ramifications in attentively responding to the unexpected avianCollaborative presentation with Susan Pyke at the Feminist Ecologies Symposium, University of Melbourne, AU

    Invisible Places Sounding Cities Selection Committee Member Viseu Portugal
    2013
    Clover, C Listening in the City - article in the 'Bioacoustics' issue of Antennae, Issue #27 Dec 2013
    2012
    Clover, C Confab with the Birds: A chatter, a call, a shout, a whisper, a murmur, a mutter, a babble, a drone  Presented at the ASLEC-ANZ biennial conference Regarding the Earth Monash/RMIT Universities Melbourne  AU 
    Looking up, listening for the birds Excerpt Magazine Melbourne Issue 04 
    Clover, C Revisiting Central Australia: Indigenous and non-Indigenous artistic collaborations  for the Frieze blog (no longer active)
    Clover, C Lumpen Falls by OSW (Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell) at Conical, Melbourne March. For DAS Platforms (no longer active)
    A Storytelling of Ravens centre page spread Tierstudien 01 Animalität und Ästhetik edited by Jessica Ullrich pub Neofelis Verlag Berlin Germany
    2011
    Clover, C Brainy Birds conference presentation at Animals and Aesthetics Universitat der Kunste, Berlin Germany October funded by RMIT University
    Clover, C Tell Me Something Artist’s book produced as part of birdbrain, available from Perimeter Books Melbourne and Printed Matter New York
    Patricide 03 The Uncanny Coombs, N (ed). Collaborative Print Project, UK