TRACE Collective was formed by director Andre Stitt in 2006, situated in the Trace Install-Action Artspace. They have since embarked on a series of projects involving full-size replications of their space in Cardiff – an installation displaced to locations around the world. This has resulted in performance art using reconstituted materials to incorporate experiences of displacement, memory and recall, while accumulating extensive archives of the process.

TRACE: displaced, edited by Stitt, is a high-quality art book and the collaborators are respected experts in their field. It deals with the most recent work, and includes both critical essays and images. The book was launched as part of the Experimentica Performance Festival, which ran from 11-16th October 2011 at Chapter. 

Huw David Jones reviewed TRACE: displaced  (edited by Andre Stitt) for Planet:

Eleanor Brooks presents Miss, a unique exhibition which brings together just over one and hundred and fifty drawings created by her students at a secondary school in London, with reinterpretations by textile artist Sheelagh Stephens. Here, for the first time, the students' portraits of their teacher – endearing, intriguing and frequently remarkable – are given at last the opportunity to flourish and to reveal 'their innocent truth'.

In May 2008, five temporary art events by artists Alastair MacLennan, Maura Hazelden, Simon Whitehead, Anna Lucas and Yvonne Buchheim, took place in public spaces in Cardigan exploring themes of ritual, community and place.

Holy Hiatus sought to examine the ways that artists can draw audiences into different, often unexpected, experiences of place through ritual. The temporary, mobile and in some cases, understated nature of the works meant that the impact was often subtle, leading audiences to wonder what they had just seen and to what extent had they knowingly, or unknowingly, participated in it?

The book offers a contextual framework for the project within a field of cultural theory that ranges from contemporary art to anthropology, sociology and religious studies.

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Meandering, walking without necessarily a plan to arrive, to take in the scene, to explore, to experience. This is what this book is about. It's an attempt at a sideways glance at the cultural activity bubbling under the surface, deliberately choosing five very different artists, whose vital off-centre work benefits from being produced away from the pressure of the dominant metropolitan culture. This variety gives a sense of the rich fluctuations, the oddity and creativity that exist at every level of a Welsh culture in the midst of change.

The inspiration for this book stems from my own experiences of 'disability'. Various things that happened to me as a deaf child forty-odd years ago are still crystal clear in my mind. The bizarre array of value judgements around disability in our society, particularly when imposed upon us as children, can have a lasting impact on our lives. Living Where the Nights Jive tells the stories of twelve disabled women, ten from Wales and two from the West of England. The stories are taken from interviews, and edited into a narrative. The women interviewed are aged from late 20s to 60 plus.