Lee Miller

Creative practice & artistic projects
All the places we've never been, all the things we've never seen (2007) Axis Arts Centre
Another Little Hole (2007) Manchester Hazard Festival
Re: Incident On and Off (2006) Liverpool Biennial Festival of Contemporary Art, four-day site-specific performance event, 26 October – 29 October 2006. Co-created/Performed Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Wider Than a Mile (2005) Trafford Centre Shopping Centre, Manchester, 1-30 December. Co-created Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Mettle (2005), Isham Studios, The University of Northampton, 14 December. Co-created/Performed Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Re-Commit to Memory: Replacing Site (in which Bob and Lee spend twelve hours at a loss) (2005), PARIP International Conference, 29 June - 03 July. Co-created/Performed Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Mettle (work in progress) (2004), Green Room, Manchester, 1 October. Co-created/Performed Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
We Will Remember You (2004), web-based project, available online: www.dogshelf.com/wwry.html, launched May. Co-created Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Commit to Memory (2004), 291 Gallery, London, 25 March, Co-created/Performed Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain (2002), Roadchef Service Station, M6 Motorway, 20 September. Co-created/Performed Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.

 

Publications

Chapters in books:

‘Disorderly Looking’ (2010) Catalogue essay co-authored with Joanne 'Bob' Whalley for Marina Abramović, Ivan Civic, Amanda Coogan, Nico Vascellari, Marie Cool and Fabio Balducci, Nikhil Chopra, Yingmei Duan, Eunhye Hwang, Alistair McLennan, Kira O’Reilly, Melati Suryodarmo, Jamie Isenstien, Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich, and Terence Koh in Marina Abramović and the Future of Performance Art, ed. Paula Orrell, London: Prestel.

‘Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain: A case study’ (2010) co-authored with Joanne 'Bob' Whalley in Blood, Sweat & Theory ed. John Freeman, London: Libri

(Re)Commit To Memory: In Which Bob and Lee Spend 12 Hours At A Loss (2009) catalogue entry co-authored with Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley, in Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen, edited by Ludivine Fuschini, Simon Jones, Baz Kershaw and Angela Piccini, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

‘From Structuralism to Poststructuralism' (2004 first edition, 2009 second edition), in Research Methods in the Social Sciences, co-authored with Ian Stronach (LJMU) and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley, London: Sage Publications, pp. 310-317.

Articles in Journals:

‘Away From Home: The Curious Domain of Passage’ (2007), co-authored article Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller in Performance Research 12.2 ‘On The Road’.

‘Performance Anxiety: or how I stopped worrying and learnt to love site-specific performance installation’ (2007), co-authored article Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller in Research in Drama Education, special edition ‘On Site and Place’: 104-107.

‘A Dwelling in the Screen: At least for a little while’ (2006), co-authored article Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller in Performance Research 10.4 ‘On Techne’: 138-147.

‘Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain: A heteroglossic approach to collaborative devising strategies’ (2005), co-authored article Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller, available in online refereed journal The Drama Forum Journal at: http://www.dramforum.com/?articleid=71.

Conference Contributions & Invited Papers:

‘Not Going Out’ (2009) research seminar, Brunel University, November 18. Co-authored and presented with Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley.

‘Dissent and Domesticity’ (2009) artist’s talk, The Choreodrome Lecture Series, The Place, London, 13 August. Co-authored and presented with Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley.

‘The Hobbyist At Home’ (2009) research paper, University of Surrey, 6 March. Co-authored and presented performance paper with Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley.

'Re: Incident On & Off - The Inside/Outside Of The Site-Specific' (2007) research symposium, The University of Northampton, 21 February. Co-authored and presented performance paper with Joanne Whalley.

‘Revealing and concealing the in/visible-un/thinkable: Collaborative performance research (in the work) and collaborative performance research environments (for the work)’ (2006), Working Group on Performance as Research, International Federation for Theatre Research/Fédération internationale pour la recherche théâtrale, World Congress, University of Helsinki, 7-12 August. Co-authored and presented paper Jane Bacon, Joanne Whalley and  Lee Miller.

‘Re-Commit to Memory: Replacing Site (in which Bob and Lee spend twelve hours at a loss)’ (2005), Parip International Conference, 29 June-3 July. Co-authored and presented paper Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley and Lee Miller.

‘The Screen as Site of Performance’ (2005), Interactivities- Performance in the 21st Century, Standing Conference on Drama in Higher Education and Standing Conference on Dance in Higher Education, Annual Conference, The University of Northampton, 18-20 March. Co-authored and presented paper Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley and Lee Miller.

‘The Screen – Opening Comments’ (2005), The Screen as Site of Performance, School of the Arts research symposium, The University of Northampton, 29 January. Co-authored and presented paper Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley and Lee Miller.

‘We Will Remember You’ (2004), Dramatic Learning Spaces International Conference, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 23-25 April. Co-authored and presented paper Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.

‘Halfway To the Bottom’ (2004), Parip Midlands Group meeting, De Montfort University, 28 February. Co-authored and presented paper with Joanne Whalley.

‘We Will Re-Remember You’ (2003), Parip National Conference, Bristol University, 11-14 September. Co-authored and presented paper Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.

Reports & invited lectures
Can Collaborative Practice Really Make a PhD? (2006), invited speaker, postgraduate supervisor training course, The University of Northampton, 30 November. Co-authored and presented Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Notes on Collaborative Practice as Research (2006), invited speaker, staff research seminar, The University of Northampton, 12 January. Co-authored and presented Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
‘Taking the Piss’: Progressive Research Methods (2005), invited speaker, postgraduate supervisor training course, The University of Northampton, 12 December. Co-authored and presented Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Collaborative Practices (2005), invited speaker, postgraduate Fine Arts lecture, The University of Northampton, 9 May. Co-authored and presented Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
Sucking Eggs: Operational Knowledge and Practice as Research (2004), invited speaker, staff research seminar, DeMontfort University, 1 December. Co-authored and presented Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.
You Can’t Get There From Here: Progressive Research Methods (2002), invited speaker, postgraduate research seminar, Manchester Metropolitan University, 5 September. Co-authored and presented Joanne Whalley and Lee Miller.

 

Conferences organised
Co-organiser of Live Laboratory Symposium with Roberta Mock (UoP) & Paula Orrell (PAC) presented as part of The Pigs of Today Are The Hams of Tomorrow at Royal William Yard in collaboration with the Marina Abramovic Instriture for the Preservation of Performance Art (22nd-24th Jan 2010).

Organiser of Calculating Risk learning & teaching symposium (PALATINE event) 21st-22nd Jan 2010.