STRANGEFIELD, GLASGOW
OLIVIA WILES: STAGING
March 2023


Distributed as part of the exhibition 'Boys With Books' at Strangefield, Glasgow alongside works by Emma Aars, Kate Briggs, CAConrad, Hayley Jane Dawson, Gianni Esporas, and Kate Timney. A version of the text was read by Olivia Wiles at the launch event of the exhibition at Strangefield. The pamphlet is available at Good Press, Glasgow.

Throughout this pamphlet, choreography is evident. The speaker keeps noticing the shapes of things. They analyse space to the nth degree, tracing it like a snake. Throughout the work there's a conspicuous lack of people. If they are there they're from year 1 or are a mum or are strangely flat; they're already internalised as characters and have little life of their own: the narrator is more active interiorly, in form or shape, than in social interaction. The cover holds an image of a clay relief of a theatre.