Jenny Swingler is a performance artist and researcher. Her creative critical practice engages with creative geography, intersectional feminism and media materialism. She uses live performance, text, video and hybrid essays to encounter/counter how visual images make worlds.
As a Techne (AHRC) Phd Scholar (2019-2024) 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 research proposed that live performance of poetic verbal imagery allows an attending audience to conjure the spectral violence entwined with such images.
She is currently developing Future Animal, a performance made with the collaboration of Climate Scientists and various communities in East Sussex. The project will explore stories of interspecies adaptation and survival.
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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Email: swinglerjenny@gmail.com