Theater in A Post-Truth World

Delighted that my chapter on performance art, conspiracy theories, and the new culture war is now available alongside other amazing work in the book Theater in A Post-Truth World from Bloomsbury Press.

You can find the details of the book and purchase it here. A paperback will be available in 2023.

Edinburgh 2019

Lewis was delighted to once again lead The Sick of the Fringe's writing program at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.  Click the link below to read his round-up of the experience of being there!

You can also follow the link to access the important, urgent and provocative writing from the four commissioned writers that Lewis was lucky enough to work with as editor - FK Alexander, Harry Clayton Wright, Demi Nandhra and Sage Nokomis Wright.

TSOTF Edinburgh 2019

The Sick of the Fringe and Lewis's work within it is continuing to grow, so look out for announcement of new projects and partners coming in 2020 and beyond! 

Take the Money and Run: Power, Money and Counter-Power

Lewis was recently commissioned by the Managing the Radical Group and the Live Art Development Agency to produce a written response to the event Take the Money and Run: Power, Money and Counter-Power. 

Taking a moment to reflect upon some real successes achieved by campaigns such as Liberate Tate, the event invited artists, activists, curators, producers, researchers and anyone engaged with these issues to share ideas about how we might build for future struggles to free art and artists from their dependency on the proceeds of toxic capitalism. What might a politically and environmentally responsible approach to money in the arts look like today and tomorrow?

Take the Money and Run: Power, Money and Counter-Power featured contributions from Jess Worth of Culture Unstained, Jane Trowell of Platform, Elona Hoover of The Common House, Natasha Nkonde of Edge Fund, writer and artist Morgan Quaintance, and Cecilia Wee and Amit Rai from the Managing the Radical Action Group.

You can read or download this response here.

Vooruit / Upcoming Events

Lewis returned earlier this month from Vooruit in Ghent (Belgium), where he was working with writers at Women and Children First for The Sick of the Fringe.

You can access writing from the festival here.

UPCOMING:

- Lewis will be leading the live writing response to Live Art Bistro's 24hr 'Performing Britain' event in Leeds, March 29th-30th 2019.

- Look out for forthcoming commissioned writing on Keijuan Thomas and Gabriele Longega's residencies at ]performance s p a c e [

- More Diagnoses and Prognoses out of The Sick of the Fringe London Festival, Care & Destruction.

- Lewis' article 'Everyone Was Doing Everything: The Post-Punk Polymath on the Lower East Side' is available in the latest issue of Intellect Journal's Punk & Post-Punk.

SPILL Reader

Lewis has contributed a new essay, 'World of Your Own Making: Artist Partnerships and Subcultural Support for Live Art' to On Time: A SPILL Reader.

It was available at the 2018 SPILL Festival in Ipswich (UK) and is available for online purchase here.

Recent Projects and Writing

Lewis is back in London following a great summer teaching at SUISS 2018 in Edinburgh, then writing about the festival for The Sick of the Fringe.

- Edinburgh 2018 Round-Up for The Sick of the Fringe

Lewis also has a short piece on the great 1930s Italian-American author John Fante's novel The Road to Los Angeles in the Autumn edition of The First Line Literary Journal.

Coming Soon:

- The SPILL Reader, featuring an essay by Lewis

- Further teaching at Queen Mary, University of London

- A new teaching role at Birkbeck University

Hotel Artemis

Lewis really enjoyed attending the recent Film Distributors Association screening of Hotel Artemis in London.

You can find his review for Loose Lips here.