Emily is a London-based artist, researcher and educator, working with performance, video, installation and hybrid modes of writing. She is interested in exploring ideas around memory, maintenance, enchantment and solidarity, as well as investigating ways to un-fix notions of time and place. Always open to new forms​ of experimentation, she is consistently inspired by lively discussions, new encounters, and unlikely assemblages.

 

As a practitioner-researcher, with a mixture of academic, artist and physical theatre training, Emily is a firm believer in breaking down the false binaries that separate practice and theory, making and thinking and writing about making. Long-term collaborators include artists Katja Hilevaara and Elinor Brass.

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At the moment, Emily works at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she is Programme Leader on the MA in Collaborative Theatre Production and Design, supervises PhD students, and runs postgraduate workshops on practice-as-research methods and creative-critical writing. Emily is a founding member of Guildhall's Practice-as-Research network, and a co-convenor of the new London-wide Out of Practice (Oops) collective, open to all artists, academics and writers interested in creative-critical practices. 

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www.emilyorley.com

Instagram: @emilyorley