Fiona Templeton

{{short description|American poet}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Fiona Templeton 2013 by Hugo Glendinning '''Fiona Templeton''' is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer.<ref>[http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artstaff/drama/fionatempleton Fiona Templeton] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211025228/http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sa/artstaff/drama/fionatempleton |date=2007-12-11 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fionatempleton.org/Fiona%20Templeton%20bio.htm |title=Fiona Templeton bio |access-date=9 December 2007 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303170524/http://www.fionatempleton.org/Fiona%20Templeton%20bio.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's ''Theatre of Mistakes'' in the 1970s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance work includes the pioneering urban theatrical journey, ''You-The City''. She has received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2002); and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and a Senior Judith E. Wilson Fellowship at Cambridge. She is founder and Artistic Director of The Relationship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.therelationship.org/ |title=Home |website=therelationship.org}}</ref> She is currently the Creative Fellow at the Woodberry Poetry Room of Harvard University.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://woodberrypoetryroom.com/?p=8174 |title=Home |website=woodberrypoetryroom.com}}</ref>

==The Relationship==

The Relationship, founded in 2000, is a performance art group and nonprofit based in both New York, New York and London.<ref>{{cite web|last=Melville|first=Fiona|title=Profile: Yoko Ishiguro and Fiona Templeton|url=http://www.a-n.co.uk/knowledge_bank/article/2700075/75004|date=11 April 2013}}</ref> The Relationship is known for taking an innovative approach to language and for exploring the relationship between the audience and performers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Contemporary Performance|title=Artists|url=https://contemporaryperformance.com/artists/|date=11 April 2013}}</ref> The group is well known for its production of "The Medead", a monumental performance work most recently performed in collaboration with Samita Sinha at Roulette Brooklyn in New York.<ref>{{cite web|last=Roulette|title=Fiona Templeton & Samita Sinha "The Medead"|url=https://roulette.org/events/fiona-templeton-samita-sinha-the-medead-2/|date=14 December 2012}}</ref>

The Relationship also directs the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, established in 2012 in memory of experimental poet and publisher Leslie Scalapino.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lesliescalapinoaward.org/ |title=Home |website=lesliescalapinoaward.org}}</ref>

==Bibliography== *''The Medead'', New York: Roof Books, 2014 - play cycle *''Mum in Airdrie'' Glasgow: Object Permanence, 2005 - poems *''Delirium of Interpretations'', Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003 - play *''Cells of Release'', New York: Roof Books, 1997 - poem and photographs from an installation *''oops the join'', Cambridge: rempress, 1997 - poems *''YOU - The City'', New York: Roof Books, 1990 - performance script with director's notes and photographs *''Hi Cowboy'', London: Mainstream, 1991 - poems *''London'', College Park: Sun & Moon Press, 1984 - poetry *''Elements of Performance Art'', London: Ting Books, 1976 - theory and exercises (with Anthony Howell)

Her anthologies include ''Out of Everywhere'', ''From the Other Side of the Century'', and ''Sun & Moon''.

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==External links== *[http://www.fionatempleton.cloud Fiona Templeton's website] *[http://jacketmagazine.com/26/berg-temp.html Handwriting as a form of protest] *[https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/sites-and-human-nonsites-of-a-sub-urban-world(2ee56d91-3c14-46f8-9186-5ce8bbd4c785).html Sites and (Human) nonsites]

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