1. Olivia Plender
    1. Many Maids Make Much Noise

    2. What is School?

    3. Rise Early, Be Industrious

    4. Information, Education, Entertainment

    5. The Medium and Daybreak

    6. Artefacts

    7. Printed Matter

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A series of projects on life reform and speaking to the dead

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

mixed-media installation, ‘Altermodern’: Tate Triennial 2009, Tate Britain, London

The Medium and Daybreak

mixed-media installation, Auckland Art Gallery, 2007

A Stellar Key to the Summerland

graphic novel, published by Book Works, 2007

Bring Back Robin Hood

series of drawings, ‘The School of Creators’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2022, & Maureen Paley, London, 2016

Bring Back Robin Hood: Notes on an Imagined Community

artist’s book, published by Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2008

Regeneration

mixed-media installation, Arnolfini, Bristol, 2012, and Glastonbury Abbey/Somerset Art Works Festival, 2022

Celia and Olivia Plender Raising the Fox Sisters

pair of framed photographs, 2018

Life in the Woods

free school and video, in collaboration with P. Staff, commissioned by Radar, UK, 2011

Are Dreams Hallucinations During Sleep or Hallucinations Waking Dreams?

video installation and artist’s book, Folkestone Triennial 2011

Spirit Swindlers

comic, published by UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2008

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

performance, Serpentine Gallery, London, 2006

A Public Meeting to Address the Phenomenon of Materialisation

staged event, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, London, 2005

  1. (Many Maids Make Much Noise)

  2. (What is School?)

  3. (Rise Early, Be Industrious)

  4. (Information, Education, Entertainment)

  5. (Artefacts)

  6. (Printed Matter)