Emily Orley

Emily Orley is a London-based artist, researcher and educator, whose work includes performance, scenography, installation, video and hybrid modes of writing. She is interested in exploring ideas to do with memory, maintenance and enchantment, as well as the un-fixing of time, heritage and place. Always open to new forms of experimentation, she is endlessly inspired by lively discussions, new encounters, and unlikely assemblages. She is a firm believer in breaking down the false binaries that separate practice and theory, making and thinking and writing about making.  

She is Programme Leader on the MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design and currently supervises 7 PhD students. She also runs postgraduate workshops on practice-as-research and creative-critical writing and is a member of the steering committee for Guildhall’s undisciplined, the School’s cross-artform collaboration programme for students. She is a founding member of Guildhall's new Practice-as-Research network, and a co-convenor of the new London-wide Out of Practice (OoPs) collective for academics, writers and artists interested in creative-critical practices.

Creative-critical writing, practice-as-research methods, hybrid forms, site-specific and place-responsive work, autoethnography, performance, visual art, live art, installation art, diffractive reading, speculative fabulation, feminist and decolonial methods