BOOK CHAPTERS

BOOK CHAPTERS

2011–present,

Louise Ann Wilson's book chapters span performance, scenography, walking, mountains, health and interdisciplinary practice. Drawing directly from creative projects, they bring together artistic practice and critical enquiry, using individual works as starting points for wider discussions of landscape, memory, embodiment and place.

Recent & Forthcoming

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2026). 'Emplacing and Walking the Menopause'. In Reimagining Menopause. Edited by Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan and Odessa Hamilton. The Sociological Review Monograph, Vol. 74, No. 4.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2026). 'Hysterectomy: BedRock – Emplacing and Making Visible Experiences of Surgery and Surgical Menopause through Creative Practice'. In Health Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body. Edited by Lisa Lindén, Emily Jay Nicholls and Josefin Persdotter. London: Routledge.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (forthcoming). 'Becoming Rock: Emplacing Breast Cancer and Surgery in a Limestone Landscape'. In Designers and Crafters. Edited by Greer Crawley and Carolina E. Santo. Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance and Performance, Vol. 3. London: Bloomsbury. Digital edition (Drama Online), October 2026; print edition, April 2027.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (forthcoming). 'Pigment: A Mountain Walk in Forty Colours'. In An Object History of Mountains. Edited by Jonathan Pitches, Jonathan Westaway and Jason König. York: White Rose University Press.

     

     

Earlier Chapters

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2023). 'Tell it to the Bees'. In hello stranger: UK Performance Design 2019–2023. Edited by Kathrine Sandys and Lucy Thornett. Aberystwyth: Performance Research Books.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2022). 'Walks to Remember: "With memory I was there"'. In The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing. Edited by Dee Heddon, Claire Hind, Maggie O'Neill, Clare Qualmann, Morag Rose, Harry Wilson and Carole Wright. Walking Publics / Walking Arts, pp. 61–63.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2021). 'A Place that Stands Apart: Emplacing, Re-imaging and Transforming Life-Events through Walking-Performance in Rural Landscapes'. In The Performance of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting. Edited by Silvia Batista. Bristol: Intellect, pp. 21–46.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2013). 'Immersed in the Environment: Off the Beaten Track'. In Immersive Theatres. Edited by Josephine Machon. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 229–240.

  • Wilson, Louise Ann (2011). 'Scenographic Space and Place: Louise Ann Wilson in Conversation with Scott Palmer'. In Performance Perspectives: A Critical Introduction. Edited by Jonathan Pitches and Sita Popat. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 63–74.