Elaine M.L. Tam
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Fieldnotes is an artist-run publishing project based in Newham in east London, where I moonlight as Senior Editor. Founded in 2020, Fieldnotes aims to promote and support non-conforming creative practices that pioneer new cultural forms. We produce an annual print journal (incredibly seven to date, see all of them here) alongside a public programme of workshops, mentoring opportunities, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. 
    

’Zoning’ workshop, South London Gallery, 2022. Photo: Bella Marrin.

Because Fieldnotes’ activities and achievements are so numerous, I suggest you simply subscribe to the newsletter here to keep up to date with the various strands, which are run by Fieldnotes and friends. Nonetheless, below is a visual diary with images in no particular order, including of the workshops we regularly run. These range from one-off in-person indoors and outdoors, to 6-week programs we refer to as ‘Fieldnotes School’.

In the last arc, we put together an e-pub comprising solely of writing created during ‘School’ time. Plenty is much/ I’m managing (2025) features writing with and by Lora S, Fer Boyd, Alice Dawson, Zoe Ranson, Alexandra Kumala, Holly Zijderveld, Miriam Stoney, Yasamin Ghalehnoie, Lidija Kononenko, Stephane Lambion, Tallulah Griffith, Natalie Elliot, Ezra Allen, Josh Philpott, Emily Macrander and Chika Hasebe. Best thing is it’s free to download from here – happy reading!


FN007 (2025) features Riel Bellow, Richard Siken, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Ágota Kristóf & Chris Andrews, Tatum Howey, dove, Christine Kirubi, Kevin Jerome Everson & Alan Martín Segal, Solvej Balle & Barbara J. Haveland, Richard Phoenix, Ektoras Arkomanis, Moyra Davey, Kami Enzie, Julius Eastman, Suma G & Richard Prins, Jăk Skŏt, Rodrigo Toscano and Adrienne Herr. 


‘Illegible’ writing workshop, Asymmetry Foundation, London, 2025. Photo: Jiaying Kou.


Agnieszka Szczotka performing ‘The Deceiver’ (FN004), Forma HQ, London, 2022.  


FN001 (2021) features Lauren Berlant & Kathleen Stewart, Wytske van Keulen, Zara Joan Miller, Estelle Hoy, Rob Halpern, Ana Vaz & Ben Rivers, Matthias Connor, Wythe Marschall, Sarah Mangold, Patrick Keiller, Helen Marten, Lulu Wolf, Emily Hunt Kivel, Amparo Dávila trans. Audrey Harris & Matthew Gleeson, Ulrike Almut Sandig trans. Karen Leeder, Malcolm Bradley & Juliette Pépin, David Manley, Eloise Lawson.


‘Calendrics’ writing workshop, Stratford, London, 2023. 


FN006 (2024) features Anne Carson, Joe Clark, Elijah Jackson, Manuela De Laborde Noguez, Jonas Eika, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, Ocean Vuong, Vanessa Billy, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Emmerson, Kidist Amberber, Robert Beavers, Natasha Cox, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Chris Kraus, Emmett Lewis, Tava Tedesco, Flo Ray, Imane Boukaila, Chris Martin, Adam Wolfond and Rasha Abdulhadi. 


Fieldnotes writing workshop, Somerset House Studios, 2023.