The below selection of work is nowhere near exhaustive, but is nonetheless reasonably representative. Or you can head over here for art projects (film, video, installation, events).
Books
My first book was Excavate! The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (Faber, 2021). My essay is about The Fall as an alternative curriculum, an art syllabus of sorts. Bookforum said my essay was their favourite – I don’t like to pick favourites but thanks Bookforum!
I also published The Fields Here Are Full of Ghosts, a handmade artists’ book about parenthood, time and pop music (Wysing Arts Centre, 2019).
I’m currently working on a second music book, and bubbling under is an essay collection and a comedy about New Labour architecture.
Essays
A trilogy of experimental essays about (gestures vaguely) all this: Maladaptive Daydreaming, No Way Out But Your Footsteps, Sick Note. I contributed some recollections of a year to Sasha Frere-Jones’ Writing About 2025. I wrote a series of extremely close readings of Wayne’s World called Marriage is Punishment For Shoplifting In Some Countries. Accompanying essays for a series of exhibitions at Ex-Baldessarre gallery, e.g. Sour Persimmons Chasm and The Estate of Hermione. Becoming Baby, a defence of ‘baby brain’ and stupidity for Doggerland.
Criticism
A piece about the Turner Prize coming to Bradford for Tribune. A lead feature on The Fall alumni group House of All for The Wire. A feature on the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crime for Corridor 8. An interview with Marianna Simnett, another with Tai Shani, and one with Ravioli Me Away, all from The Wire. A review of Zadie Xa. A review of the Jerwood FVU Award. A feature about how the pandemic broke time, for Tribune.
Tessa Norton 