Jenny Swingler is an artist researcher. She is interested in the relationship between environmental landscapes and digital technology.  

 

Her creative critical practice uses live performance, text, video and hybrid essays to encounter/counter how visual images make worlds. Her practice engages with creative geography, intersectional feminism and media materialism - specifically how performance can question and critique the framing of bodies and landscapes in the Western visual canon as white world-making.

 

As a Techne (AHRC) Phd Scholar based at the University of Roehampton she investigated how images of the white dead female body are entwined with empire. She argues that such images are not only evidence of an imperial imaginary but, considered as material objects, are entwined with the violence of extractivism and racial capitalism. Her performance practice uses poetic verbal imagery to conjure the spectral violence of such images.

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As a lecturer and workshop facilitator, she is interested in using text, performance and digital technology to explore environmental and climate imaginaries.

 

She is co-convenor of the TaPRA Performance and Philosophy working group http://tapra.org/tapra-profiles/theatre-performance-and-philosophy/

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     CV 2025

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