The Centre for Modernist Studies is delighted to introduce the 2023 Artist in Residence, Kabe Wilson.

Kabe Wilson is an artist, performance poet and Bloomsbury scholar whose work seeks to generate new modes of critical and creative adaptation. He has performed for the Royal Society of Literature, the British Library, the Institute of International Visual Art (Iniva), and once in Virginia Woolf's own drawing room. 

His vast project of literary recycling Olivia N'Gowfri - Of One Woman or So has become a vital text in experimental literary criticism and has inspired many books, including Contemporary Revolutions: Turning Back to the Future in 21st-Century Literature and Art (Bloomsbury: 2018) and Recycling Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Art and Literature (Routlege: 2021). 

His recent work, which will provide the starting point for the residency, focuses on a series of paintings of Sussex he produced in 2020, and how they relate to a diverse selection of documents held within archives across the region. These paintings, and further information about Kabe's work can be viewed at artkabe.com. 

As part of the residency, Kabe will be participating in an event focusing on 'Modernist Archives' at the Keep, before launching a film based on his creative work with modernist archives in the late spring. Further details will be announced shortly. If you have any questions or would like to be involved in these events, please contact Helen Tyson (H.Tyson@sussex.ac.uk) and Hope Wolf (H.Wolf@sussex.ac.uk).