selected writing projects that
are not in printed book form

independent press fair,
new york

 

book show at
whitechapel gallery

 

text-based show
at nog gallery and bookshop

 

Text-based Upset the Rhythm show curated by Amy, including performance by LA-based BARR (Brendan Fowler).

For this event Amy uses two of her new fictional pieces in the galleries. '(The Story), Morning Glory' is written in response to cover version of a Daniel Johnston song and recently appeared as a dazzlingly visual record insert for a 7" single. 'I Can't Believe How Great I Feel' is her new book that creatively transforms trashy tabloids and bad Hollywood movies. The result: innovative gallery pieces where words meet music and projected hand-drawn animation.

Assistance: Frances May Morgan (records), Jo Robertson (performance), Max at Nog Gallery, Upset the Rhythm, Clairelou Staunton, Sarah Doyle, Joe Walsh, Joe Zeitlin (soundtrack), Pamelia Kurstin (soundtrack), Kate Moross
Supported by: Nog Gallery/Upset the Rhythm

 

 

 

publish and
be damned

 

For the book ‘I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel’. Friends showing my books in their space.

Publish and Be Damned is an annual fair in East London that profiles individual and experimental approaches to making and distributing the work of artists, writers and musicians.
Funded by: Arts Council England

 

 

 

record insert story

 

New story – ‘The Story, Morning Glory’ – written to be printed on a record insert for a 7” single. Story written in response to a cover version of a Daniel Johnston song.

Print run of 500 to insert in 500 record sleeves.
Visual Design: Kate Moross
Music: The song ‘Happy Time’ by Daniel Johnston re-recorded as a cover version by Berlin-based musician Janine Rostron aka Planningtorock
Assistance: Clairelou Staunton, John Rogers
Funded by: Record Label

 

 

 

rational rec

 

For the book ‘I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel’

Rational Rec at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club. Present a bookstall-on-a-bar. Also with Bookworks, Artwords Bookshop and Dalkey Archive Press.

Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion incorporating sound, music, text, performance and film
Funded by: Arts Council England

 

 

 

book preview
at curzon soho

 

For the book ‘I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel’.

Documentary about the book made for short film festival at Soho cinema/I.C.A.

With readings in the cinema as part of festival 'Afternoon of Performance and Music'

Film: Joe Walsh
Film Editing: Joe Walsh with Amy Prior
Assistance: Åbäke, Charlie Phillips, Sarah Doyle, Clairelou Staunton
Funding: London Short Film Festival/FourDocs

 

 

 

2 0 0 6

 

new art, new fiction
at tate modern

 

Project about writing short fiction in response to contemporary visual and sound artworks in the galleries of Tate Modern in Summer 2006.

Commissioned to write a fiction piece for public readings in the Image/Text Gallery Room of the Tate Modern - a creative response to the artwork ‘The End no.1’ by Ed Ruscha.

Developed the gallery programme ‘New Art, New Fiction’.

Research for ‘New Art, New Fiction’ in New York (during Spring 2006). Recorded conversations with American fiction writers who have been writing short fiction pieces for artshow catalogues as a creative response to new art.

Project assistance: Clairelou Staunton, Sophie Haworth, Harvinder Bahra
Artist help: Pil and Galia Kollectiv
Funded and hosted by: Tate Modern

 

 

 

2 0 0 5

 

new writing:
live and offline
at Horse Hospital

 

Reading new fictional story - based on imagining around extracts of real online journals and blogs. Commissioned for friend’s book launch show.

Plus - live readings from online journals and blogs

Assistance: Amy Spencer
Supported by: Marion Boyars/Horse Hospital

 

 

 

story presentation for
happy ending

 

Film for story presentation at Happy Ending, New York for Opium.

Narrated story extract on film.

Film: Tyler Coburn
Supported by: Opium, New York

 

 

 

sound/text
Text + music

 

story presentation
for u.s. book tour

 

Modern Times (San Francisco)
The Hemlock (San Francisco)
Black Oak Books (Berkeley)
57th Street Books (Chicago)
In Other Words (Portland)

U.S. book tour in April 2005: four cities in 13 days. Readings and events in San Francisco, Berkeley, Chicago, Portland – mainly in bookstores. Co-organised with writers and friends in the different cities.

Californian events also with readings and music by Sara Jaffe.

Funded by: U.S. Publisher