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Maria Fusco is a Northern Irish interdisciplinary writer, editor, academic and broadcaster.

Life
Fusco lives in Scotland. She grew up working-class in Belfast during the Troubles. She is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee, previously a Reader at the University of Edinburgh and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Work
Her work is interdisciplinary, she has written criticism, fiction, performance and theoretical works. She was the first writer-in-residence at Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2009-10), critic-in-residence at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris, 2008-09) and writer-in-residence at Lisboa Architectural Triennale (2013). She is an Hawthornden Fellow and a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow (2019). She narrated the BBC Radio 4 documentary Along the Peaceline (2019) and her work is featured in BBC 2’ s landmark series about UK creativity Art That Made Us (2022).

Her personal website is mariafusco.net

Selected Works

 * Who does not envy with us is against us (2023) is a collection of three essays about working-class-ness as method. Published by Broken Sleep Books. “I love this book with my entire life and beyond. Fact that I grew up a thousand miles south of Belfast, but, days after reading, feel like I’m - or should be - from there is testament to Fusco’s analytic and lyric genius, and her ability to move and affect. Fusco mobilises a previously unnamed mood shared by the international, intergalactic working classes, I’ve never seen anything like it. Read this book.” Isabel Waidner


 * History of the Present (2023) is an experimental opera film about the legacies of growing up beside a peaceline during the Troubles. Fusco wrote and co-directed with artist filmmaker Margaret Salmon, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood and vocal improvisations by Heloise Werner.
 * Mollspeak (2021) is an immersive sound installation about the lives of 18th-century maid servants. Fusco wrote and directed. New composition by Olivier Pasquet. Voiced by acclaimed actor Maxine Peake. Commissioned by Museum of Home (London).
 * ECZEMA! (2018-19) is a touring duologue about living in co-occupation with the chronic skin condition, eczema. Fusco wrote and directed. Featuring actor Rhodri Meilir and organist John Harris. Commissioned by National Theatre Wales as part of their celebration of the 70th anniversary of the NHS.
 * ECZEMA! (2019) Vinyl EP and script insert of the ECZEMA! performance work. Produced by Dilip Harris. Published by Accidental Records.
 * Nine Qwerty Bells: Fiction for Live Voice (2019) is a book written by Fusco to accompany the exhibition Nine Qwerty Bells she curated at Whitechapel Gallery.
 * Legend of the Necessary Dreamer (2017) is a novella written in location in Palacio Pombal during Fusco’s residency at the Lisboa Architectural Triennale. “It’s a new classic of female philosophical fiction.” Chris Kraus
 * Give Up Art: Critical Writing (2017) is a collection of Fusco’s critical writing from between 2022-2017. Published by New Documents "After a book like this, most nonfiction seems curiously unaware of what writing can be." James Elkins "Fusco’s scintillating mobility invites us to savour a new kind of critical empathy." Lisa Robertson
 * Master Rock (2015) is an experimental radio play performed and recorded inside a granite mountain on the west coast of Scotland. Commissioned by Artangel and BBC Radio 4.
 * Master Rock (2015) is the book version of the radio play. Published by Artangel and Book Works.
 * With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form (2013) is a book about reading the seminal artist’s 1969 book When Attitudes Become Form.
 * Gonda (2012) is a 16mm film made by artist filmmaker Ursula Mayer, Fusco wrote the screenplay. Commissioned by Film London.
 * Gonda (2012) is a cine roman featuring the screenplay and stills from the film Gonda. Published by Sternberg Press.


 * The Mechanical Copula (2010) is a collection of short stories. Published by Sternberg Press

Selected Editorial Work

 * Dialecty (2018) is a series of six chapbooks considering the uses of vernacular forms of speech and writing. Featuring new writing by Harry Josephine Giles & Martin O’Leary, Robert Herbert McClean, Helen Nisbet, Lisa Robertson, Adam Pendleton, Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams.
 * Cosey Complex (2010) was a one-day event at the ICA (London) about the seminal artist and musician Cosey Fanni Tutti devised and organised by Fusco. She also co-edited a book of the same name with curator Richard Birkett, published by Koenig Books.
 * The Happy Hypocrite (2008-21) is a journal founded and edited by Fusco, it is for and about experimental art writing. Later issues were edited by guests invited by Fusco. Published by Book Works.