Wallace Heim

Dr Wallace HeimDr Wallace Heim
Dr Wallace Heim writes on performance and nature, on the philosophical, ethical and aesthetic dimensions of how nature-human relations are performed, through art-making and everyday life.Her doctoral research analysed methods of change in social practice art. Her recent work focuses on climate change, politics and emotions, and looks at performance forms more widely.

In addition to her research, Wallace teaches on the Arts and Ecology MA at Dartington College of Arts and is a co-editor of www.ashdendirectory.org.uk.  She co-curated the conference/event BETWEEN NATURE at Lancaster University, 2000 and is also a trustee for PLATFORM. 

Wallace curated the online exhibition: enter change: performance and nature for greenmuseum.org in 2004. Her publications on social sculpture include: ‘Slow Activism. Homelands, love and the lightbulb’ on the work of PLATFORM in Nature Performed. Environment, Culture, and Performance (2003); and ‘Navigating Voices’ on the work of Shelley Sacks and Basia Irland in Peforming Nature. Explorations in Ecology and Performance (2005). 

Wallace's previous career was as a set designer in theatre, including the start of the Gate Theatre, London. She also has made sculpture, and was invited with other artists to Joseph Beuys’ 100 days (the Honey Pump) at Documenta 6.  

Wallace lives by the Leven estuary in Cumbria.

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