Nick Thurston
Born

Gloucester, UK, 1982
Education

MA Modern European Philosophy, CRMEP, Middlesex University, 2011
BA (Hons), Open University, 2007
Affiliations
Appointments

Associate Professor, University of Leeds, UK, 2012–
Director, AWP Research Centre, University of Leeds, 2015–
Fellow of the Leeds Poetry Centre, University of Leeds, 2017–
Member of AICA
Visiting Roles

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Advisory Roles

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Readings, Talks, Workshops
2023 'Disobedient Writing', workshops,
2023 'The Verb', talks,
2023 'Infrastructures of Publishing and Critique', talks,
2022 'Poetry Workshop', workshops,
2022 'Seeing Libraries Differently', talks, editing, publications,
2021 'Sculpture and Poetry', talks, publications, editing,
2021 'Comparative Media Studies Colloquium', talks,
2021 'Semiotics, Signs and Language', workshops,
2021 'Silenced Libraries', talks,
2021 'Information Design Lecture Series', talks,
2021 'Experimental Publishing', talks,
2020 '21st Berlin Poetry Festival', readings,
2020 'Visual and Material Cultures', talks,
2020 'Architecture Dialogues', workshops,
2020 'Word and Image', talks,
2019 'New Writings x New Contemporaries', readings, workshops, Jude Browning, Lucy Rose Cunningham, Freya Dooley, Malachy Harvey, Leo Hermitt, Ruby Lewis.
2019 'Print and Society', talks, workshops,
2019 'Experimental Publishing II: Critique, Intervention and Speculation', talks,
2019 'Poetic Infrastructures', workshops, readings,
2019 'Sculpture and the Novel', talks,
2018 'Books, Readers, and Reading', talks,
2018 'AQNB: Content Prole', talks,
2018 'Me–We Library', talks, workshops,
2018 'A Sentimental Painting', talks,
2018 'School of Information Research Seminar', talks,
2018 'The Weaponization of Language', talks,
2017 'Using Letterpress', talks,
2017 'Images and Texts Reproduced', talks,
2017 'My 'I' is Too Small', talks,
2017 'Rethinking Interaction in the Post-Digital', talks,
2017 'Publishing—Art—Communism', talks,
2017 'Document Practices [symposium]', talks,
2017 'Libraries of Disquiet', talks,
2017 'Reproduction-as-Production', talks, workshops,
2017 'Nothing: A Seminar', talks,
2016 'Literary Arts Reading Series', readings, talks,
2016 'Art and Writing # 1: Imprint', talks,
2016 'Forms of Criticism', talks,
2016 'Experimental Writing', talks,
2016 'Writing + Art', talks, 19 April 2014
2016 'Documentary Realisms', talks,
2016 'RIT Reading Series', readings,
2016 'A Back-of-the-Envelope Artist', talks,
2016 'Trying to Say Something, Together', talks, workshops,
2015 'Tuesday Talk: Nick Thurston', talks,
2015 'Opening Curtains', talks,
2015 'Curating Language Acts', talks,
2015 'Thought Forms and Modern Art', talks,
2015 'Support de Fortune', talks, readings,
2015 'Publishing as Artistic Practice [workshop]', talks, workshops,
2014 'Plastic Words [events]', readings, talks,
2014 'Motif 2014', talks,
2014 'Writers Read', talks, readings,
2014 'Publishing as Praxis', talks,
2014 'What might contemporary art make it possible to write?', talks,
2014 'The Visitor Talks: Nick Thurston', talks, workshops,
2014 'Who is taking responsibility for that text?', talks,
2013 'Miss Read 2013', talks,
2013 'Speculative Libraries', talks,
2013 'Postscript Symposium', talks,
2012 'Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall', readings, talks,
2012 'The Condition to Make Art', talks,
2012 'WTF?!', talks, workshops,
2012 'Re-imagined Libraries', talks,
2012 'Book Live!', talks,
2012 'Global Conceptualisms', readings, talks,
2012 'Caricature', talks,
2012 'Reading Beckett Out Loud Makes Your Jaw Ache', talks,
2012 'Performance Writing 12', talks,
2012 'I Don't Want to Make a Book', talks,
2012 'Sucking on Words', readings, Whitechapel Gallery, Nicola Sim, Sofia Victorino
2012 'Conceptualist Reading Performances', talks, MFA Research Lectures
2011 'Magnetised Space', talks,
2011 'IAM. Or, Some Pirates of Letters', talks,
2011 'Cultural Piracy', talks,
2011 'Summer School for Literary Perverts', workshops, readings,
2011 'Convergence Symposium', talks,
2011 'Off the Record', readings,
2008 'Writing Encounters', readings,
2008 'Spinning', readings,
2007 'A One-Day Bookshop for Experimental Literature', readings,