
Photo: Phoebe Davies
Freya and Cinzia’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image. Dialogue is central to the way they create and produce their work. Their exchanges — private, public, remote, rehearsed and improvised — encompass research, anecdote, humour, and cultural criticism.
Their shared practice combines their individual interests in modes of performance within socio-political contexts, often referencing narrative constructs such as theatre, pop music, cinema, and soap operas. Previous works have escalated real and imagined experiences of work, relationships, and domesticity, to explore perceptions of aspiration and failure.
Freya and Cinzia are currently developing new work that considers methods and processes of private and public performance in relation to consumerism and emotional “health”. Their current research explores acting improvisation techniques that are prevalent in “self-help” and confidence culture, and potential frictions between individualised therapeutic pursuits and collective politics. For their presentation at WITTA, they will be sharing live and recorded works-and-thoughts-in-progress.
They are currently developing a collaborative solo exhibition which will open at Galerie Simpson, Swansea in May 2023. Freya and Cinzia also work with others through live events, broadcasts, exhibitions, and workshops. Previous commissions include Being Sharon, a performance for Experimentica Festival, Chapter, Cardiff, 2018; You Will Get the Credit, g39, Cardiff, 2018; On Record, a performance, exhibition and events programme commissioned for Cardiff Contemporary Festival, 2014; and On the Radio, commissioned for Pitch3 on Radio Cardiff in 2014.
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WITTAnights are a place for showing, reading, listening and trying things out.

Calling all artists who write, writers who art(!) and everything in between: tell us more about your work.

The WITTA podcast – hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson – invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t.

Through various WITTA events, working with participants and collaborators within and beyond the university, questions have emerged.

This WITTAfilm was made from interviews and materials gathered at an informal week-long creative residency / experiment called WITTAverse.

In July 2023, WITTAverse happened. It was a week-long event which involved a range of artists, writers, composers, and students.

Members of the Ways of Writing in Art & Design (WoW) network, which is housed within the Visual Culture Research Group, have written and guest edited the first of two special issues of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Freya Dooley and Cinzia Mutigli’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image.

In this inaugural event we invite Polly Barton and Daniela Cascella to discuss translation, relationships between art, writing and sound, and what it means to write between disciplines.

This evening of conversation with artist Katy Beinart, writer Lizzie Lloyd and curator Marianne Mulvey will consider their shared interests in socially engaged or participatory art projects.
WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art) is the start of what I hope to become a fully fledged research group at UWE Bristol.

Photo: Phoebe Davies
Freya and Cinzia’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image. Dialogue is central to the way they create and produce their work. Their exchanges — private, public, remote, rehearsed and improvised — encompass research, anecdote, humour, and cultural criticism.
Their shared practice combines their individual interests in modes of performance within socio-political contexts, often referencing narrative constructs such as theatre, pop music, cinema, and soap operas. Previous works have escalated real and imagined experiences of work, relationships, and domesticity, to explore perceptions of aspiration and failure.
Freya and Cinzia are currently developing new work that considers methods and processes of private and public performance in relation to consumerism and emotional “health”. Their current research explores acting improvisation techniques that are prevalent in “self-help” and confidence culture, and potential frictions between individualised therapeutic pursuits and collective politics. For their presentation at WITTA, they will be sharing live and recorded works-and-thoughts-in-progress.
They are currently developing a collaborative solo exhibition which will open at Galerie Simpson, Swansea in May 2023. Freya and Cinzia also work with others through live events, broadcasts, exhibitions, and workshops. Previous commissions include Being Sharon, a performance for Experimentica Festival, Chapter, Cardiff, 2018; You Will Get the Credit, g39, Cardiff, 2018; On Record, a performance, exhibition and events programme commissioned for Cardiff Contemporary Festival, 2014; and On the Radio, commissioned for Pitch3 on Radio Cardiff in 2014.
freyadooleycinziamutigli.com
freyadooley.com
cinziamutigli.com

WITTAnights are a place for showing, reading, listening and trying things out.

Calling all artists who write, writers who art(!) and everything in between: tell us more about your work.

The WITTA podcast – hosted by Lizzie Lloyd and Kit Poulson – invites guests to reflect on why they do things with words, how they do things with words and what words allow them to do that other materials don’t.

Through various WITTA events, working with participants and collaborators within and beyond the university, questions have emerged.

This WITTAfilm was made from interviews and materials gathered at an informal week-long creative residency / experiment called WITTAverse.

In July 2023, WITTAverse happened. It was a week-long event which involved a range of artists, writers, composers, and students.

Members of the Ways of Writing in Art & Design (WoW) network, which is housed within the Visual Culture Research Group, have written and guest edited the first of two special issues of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.

Invitation to work as part of a research group devised by artists Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister, which investigates contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production.

Freya Dooley and Cinzia Mutigli’s ongoing collaboration spans writing, performance, sound and moving image.

In this inaugural event we invite Polly Barton and Daniela Cascella to discuss translation, relationships between art, writing and sound, and what it means to write between disciplines.

This evening of conversation with artist Katy Beinart, writer Lizzie Lloyd and curator Marianne Mulvey will consider their shared interests in socially engaged or participatory art projects.
WITTA (Writing In / To / Through Art) is the start of what I hope to become a fully fledged research group at UWE Bristol.