1. Olivia Plender
  2. Rise Early, Be Industrious

    1. Many Maids Make Much Noise

      1. Chronos: health, access and intimacy

      2. Hag Nag Harpy Hen

      3. Our Bodies are Not the Problem

      4. Hold Hold Fire

      5. Memorial for Sylvia Pankhurst

      6. Our Bodies are Not the Problem, The Problem is Power

      7. Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us

      8. Learning to Speak Sense

      9. Many Maids Make Much Noise

      10. Practising Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1925-1954

      11. Sylvia Pankhurst

      12. The Emily Davison Lodge

      13. Disobedient Women

    2. What is School?

      1. The Falkenberg Encyclopaedia

      2. What is School?

      3. Easton Fables

      4. The Inside Out Lion

      5. Practising Politics: The Fogelstad Women’s Citizenship School 1925–1954

      6. Open Forum

      7. Society is a Workshop

      8. Life in the Woods

      9. Beyond Former Heaven (or the Institute of Surrealist Ethnography)

      10. War Path

      11. Teaching, Lectures and Workshops

    3. Rise Early, Be Industrious

      1. Rise Early, Be Industrious

      2. Olivia Plender: Rise Early, Be Industrious

      3. Google Office

      4. Proposal to Remodel Arnolfini

      5. Self-Direction Lounge

      6. Audience Survey

    4. Information, Education, Entertainment

      1. Open Forum

      2. Information, Education, Entertainment

      3. Newsroom

      4. Monitor

      5. The Road to Ruin

      6. Slowly Learning to Survive the Desire to Simplify

      7. Ken Russell in Conversation with Olivia Plender

    5. The Medium and Daybreak

      1. Machine Shall Be the Slave of Man but We Will Not Slave for the Machine

      2. The Medium and Daybreak

      3. A Stellar Key to the Summerland

      4. Bring Back Robin Hood

      5. Bring Back Robin Hood: Notes on an Imagined Community

      6. Regeneration

      7. Celia and Olivia Plender Raising the Fox Sisters

      8. Life in the Woods

      9. Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams?

      10. Spirit Swindlers

      11. In Search of the New Republic (or the tables turned)

      12. A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialisation

    6. Artefacts

      1. Blind Eye

      2. Progress

      3. The Gods Present to Us the Artefact

      4. The New Jerusalem

      5. TINA

      6. Aadieu Adieu Apa (Goodbye Goodbye Father)

      7. Proposed Monuments to British Parliamentary Corruption

      8. Set Sail for the Levant: A Board Game About Debt (or a Social Satire)

    7. Printed Matter

      1. The Falkenberg Encyclopaedia

      2. Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us

      3. Olivia Plender: Rise Early, Be Industrious

      4. Green Lines

      5. A Stellar Key to the Summerland

      6. The Inside Out Lion

      7. The History of Animal Kingdom

      8. Easton Fables

      9. Nelly Thüring, Bertha Wellin, Agda Östlund, Kerstin Hesselgren, Elisabeth Tamm

      10. Progress

      11. A Prior #19

      12. Urania

      13. Directions for a Play (after Jean Genet)

      14. Boom

      15. Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams?

      16. Spirit Swindlers

      17. Bring Back Robin Hood: Notes on an Imagined Community

      18. The Suffragette as Militant Artist

      19. Home Economies

      20. Aadieu Adieu Apa (Goodbye Goodbye Father)

      21. Set Sail for the Levant: A Board Game About Debt (or a Social Satire)

      22. War Path

      23. The World Upside Down

      24. Untitled

      25. The Masterpiece

      26. A Desire to Have the Best of Both Worlds

    1. Index
    2. News
    3. About

A series of projects on work

Rise Early, Be Industrious

solo exhibition, MK Gallery (Milton Keynes), Arnolfini (Bristol) and CCA (Glasgow), 2012–13

Olivia Plender: Rise Early, Be Industrious

exhibition catalogue/artist’s book, published by Sternberg Press, 2016

Google Office

mixed-media installation, Taipei Biennial 2010, Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Proposal to Remodel Arnolfini

architectural model, in ‘Rise Early, Be Industrious’, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012

Self-Direction Lounge

mixed-media installation in ‘Arbeidstid/Work Time’, Henie Onstad Museum, Oslo, 2013

Audience Survey

performance, ‘Rehearsing Collectivity: Choreography Beyond Dance’, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, 2011

  1. (Many Maids Make Much Noise)

  2. (What is School?)

  3. (Information, Education, Entertainment)

  4. (The Medium and Daybreak)

  5. (Artefacts)

  6. (Printed Matter)