Dr Linda Walker

Linda Marie Walker is a writer, artist, and curator, with interests in conceptual and minimalist art practices, experimental writing practices, ficto-critical research methodologies, electronic thinking, spatial-relations, bodies, and movement. Her research area is titled: 'an archaeology of surfaces'.

She was Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (www.cacsa.org.au/cacsa) and editor of its magazine ‘Broadsheet’ (1998-1999).

Published works on-line

Copy

ICOLS International Corporation of Lost Structures, Department of Dislocated Memory

Electronic Writing Research Ensemble (co-founder)

Verve (Writing) – Adelaide Festival Project

Experimental Art Foundation

Gregory Ulmer, University of Florida (+ Florida Research Ensemble)

AltX

This begins on a dark night

Star Dusk (with Gregory Ulmer)

Wishing (with Gregory Ulmer)

Line of sight

Archaeology of surfaces

Surface, A Colloquium (October 2003)

• Contemporary cultural theory and philosophy
• Spatial practices
• Experimental writing practices
• The photographic image (madness and death)
• Surfaces as archaeological sites

Bachelor of Arts, Communication Studies, University of South Australia

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Western Sydney, Nepean

• Visual Art & Design Research Group Website
• Writing as design
• Language-based writing
• The body as/in space
• The object/thought/voice
• Abandonment & ruined space, an archaeology of spaces
• Contemporary Australian visual arts and artists
• Curatorial practices
• Surfaces Colloquium, October 2003

1999

There’s going to be a story …, Photofile 58, Sydney

The Woman, Mistaken (novella), Little Esther Books, Adelaide

Greetings to all of you on earth …, Artlink (December), Adelaide

This is a book: Building Site (catalogue: Chantier, Toby Richardson), Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA)

Extract from … the book of phrases (as objects), (catalogue: Three vases and a ball, Paul Saint), CACSA

Each Thing Once (catalogue: Accrued Losses, John Barbour), CACSA

To understand a little, RealTime 29, Sydney

1998

Memory Trade, a prehistory of cyberculture, Meanjin vol 57 no 4, University of Melbourne

A chamber of mourning, RealTime 27, Sydney

Letters for the sea, Overland vol 153, Melbourne

In the midst of many: the butcher, his lover, her husband, and the hit man, Performance Research vol 3 no 2, Routledge, London

Speed kills, Comma & Chair Music, in The Space Between: Australian women writing fictocriticism, ed. Heather Kerr and Amanda Nettelbeck, University of Western Australia Press

The theatre of nothing, W/edge 4 & 5, University of Western Sydney, Nepean

It was a slow journey back, in Making things with words (symposium papers), Artspace, Sydney

Soap, in A small history of photography, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne

Just and thongs (with Johannes S. Sistermanns), CD, Germany

Relations between words, Art Monthly no 106, Canberra

Untitled (catalogue: disembody, Sue Lorraine), Adelaide

Gradually, as one watches, Object no 1/98, Sydney

Title: yes (catalogue: Lawyers, Guns & Money), Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

The landscape of continual surfaces, RealTime 18, Sydney

The choreography of art practice, RealTime 16, Sydney

The lines between, Broadsheet vol 27 no 1, CACSA