Recent Hybrid Projects

Bloomsbury Blog

June 2025: Guest author post by Tasha Haines

The Book

December 2023: Redemptive Hybridism in Post-Postmodern Writing
Bloomsbury Academic.

My tending-autotheoretical monograph investigating and exemplifying hybrid forms in post-postmodern creative writing. Looking from Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace and beyond, with rear and forward views through the modernisms.

“A playful, probing text that not only forges new pathways for considering two major figures of the 20th century, but also provocatively invites the reader to reflect on their own role in the process. Reversing and disrupting received wisdom, Haines assembles a ludic and agile
critical apparatus that is both critically rigorous and enormously enjoyable to read.”
…Clare Hayes-Brady, Author of The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace.

“With humility, skill, and ingenuity, Tasha Haines co-mingles philosophy, theory, and artistic autobiography to approach some of the most complex texts in the modernisms continuum. In Redemptive Hybridism, the hybrid, creative theories of Deleuze and Guattari, Hassan, Lyotard, Eagleton, Bakhtin, and others, flow through Virginia Woolf’s atomic
saturation, David Foster Wallace’s unfinishedness, and Maggie Nelson’s fragments. Haines’ marriage of form and content is unusually lucid. It is a rare delight to accept Haines’ invitation ‘to engage spaces of possibility in recognition of the fact that nothing ever really dies it simply crosses over, hybridly and redemptively.’”
…Marcela Sulak, Co-Editor (with Jacqueline Kolosov) of Family Resemblance: an Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres.

On the Mundane

June 2023: ‘Everywhere, All the Time, 3:42: Collaborative encounters with the mundane’; On the Mundane, Performance Research journal: Vol 28, Issue 4, Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

41 textual interventions published as ‘articles’ throughout the journal and around its other articles. I am one of the collaborators in this process-oriented text-based work carried out internationally in online and offline sessions by: Eric Villanueva Dela Cruz, Gillian Dyson, Renata Gaspar, Sozita Goudouna, Tasha Haines, Eero Laine, Birgit Larson, Vahri McKenzie, Jimena Ortúzar, Sandamini Ranwalage, Anna Tzakou, Evelyn Wan.

Metamodernism Symposium

January 2023: ‘Literary CPR’, my tending auto-theoretical video performance and spoken text titled after a David Foster Wallace quote from 1993.
At The Metamodern in Literature, Art, Education, and Indigenous Cosmologies: an Interdisciplinary Symposium with Metamodern Creatives and Auckland University of Technology.

Stills from my video Work:

Poems Brut

October 2020: Broken Seize Whole: my digital and mixed-media sketches online at 3Am Magazine.

Venetian Blind

October 2019: Venetian Blind, during the Venice Art Biennale.

For the month of October I was involved with this six-month, six-team project in Venice, Italy. The project was organised by Australia’s Public Art Commission for the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures exhibition, at Palazzo Bembo. Team Six was: Martin Potter, Tasha Haines, Antonia Pont, with guest Mick Douglas. Together we produced a series of video works titled Depth in Venice. (courtesy of Martin Potter’s archive):

Writing on Water: https://vimeo.com/804965128/9db9c1ebc8
After Tintoretto: https://vimeo.com/804962649/50ba78b5b9
La Creazione Degli Animali: https://vimeo.com/804962872/2981ab7623
Inventory; All Things Considered: https://vimeo.com/804963023/b4cc1c18c9
Manifesto of Unsettling: https://vimeo.com/804964584/a5615ec353

February 2021: A re-staging of the Venice work in Burwood, Melbourne, with the addition of new work generated by the six teams in this new setting.

Short Story

2017: ‘Night Train’, my short story in Millets, Ed. C. Patracchini.
An anthology of works based on Zeno’s paradoxes (mine, based on The Arrow), Zeno Press, London.