Dr Chris Green

Profile

Biography

I am a queer artist and researcher working collaboratively with Katheryn Owens as greenandowens. In 2023 we completed a fully collaborative practice research PhD at the University of Plymouth, that used an expanded definition of performance writing to understand autoethnographic experiences of millennial precarity, using friendship as a method to do this. Following on from this, we are exploring human-water relationships: the body and writing, swimming, our bodies made of water, access to water and leisure, and how we work with water. Whilst in its early stages, it is intended that this work takes an interdisciplinary practice research approach, using performance, sound, text, and sculpture as artistic outputs.

We maintain an interest in understanding through doing; on friendship as forming shared understanding, and of ways of thinking and doing collaboration. Our focus now shifts from millennial precarity to our embodied experience of water, using an expanded definition of swimming as a way of thinking with, being with, and being in water, with an interest in its socio-economic and ecological conditions.

I am also interested in researching contemporary queer art and performance and have recently co-edited (with Dominic Bilton) a special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Art and the Public Sphere, titled ‘Queer(ing) Art, Curation, and Collaboration’ (2024). I have published in a range of peer-reviewed journals, including Art and the Public Sphere, Platform, Performance Research, and Studies in Theatre and Performance, as well as in various artist publications.

Before joining the department in 2022, I taught at Leeds Beckett University, The Institute for Study Abroad, the University of Plymouth, and Sheffield Hallam University on modules focusing on arts and social change, the body, situated practices, live art, and practice research.

Research Interests

Contemporary art and performance: experimental writing, watery practices, queer art and performance, millennial precarity and aesthetics, friendship, labour and economics. 

Teaching

Performance art, site-based practices, gender and sexuality, collaboration and co-authorship, experimental writing, practice research, performance studies, art and politics.