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:

Foreword by Anthony Barnett

This is a new edition of the influential critical text which secured Raymond Williams’ reputation as one of the foremost writers and thinkers of his generation.

In The Long Revolution Raymond Williams examines the gradual change which is came over the political, economic, and cultural life of the late 21st Century, laying special emphasis on the 'creative mind' in relation to our social and cultural thinking. He turns to a fascinating historical study of education and the press, tracing the development of a common language, and revealing the links between ideas, literary forms, and social history.

Can Britain ever achieve a common culture? And should we want one?

This book may be considered as the second stage in the crucial campaign to raise the profile of Welsh writing in English both within Wales and in the wider world. The first stage was the foundation of the Library of Wales series, which was strongly advocated by all academics in the field of Welsh writing in English. Now that these largely forgotten works have been republished, it is possible for us to use them for teaching purposes in universities. We are left with the problem that critical material on these texts is scarce and, in some cases, non-existent. There is a demonstrable need on the part of undergraduate and postgraduate students for a critical book focusing specifically on a range of Library of Wales titles which will both introduce them to the field of twentieth-century Welsh fiction in English and demonstrate the varying critical approaches that can be used to analyse these texts. The book is a multi-authored work with its origins in the Association for Welsh Writing in English, which will include essays by both established leaders in the field, such as Professors Knight, Thomas, and Brown, and new, cutting-edge research by young scholars at the outset of their academic careers, such as Morse, Wainwright, and Hendon.

Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English is a stimulating academic journal featuring new research by established and emerging critics in the field.

Almanac aims to engage in a lively and informed way both with the Welsh literary past and with contemporary writing, looking towards the future and outwards towards the rest of the world.

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Almanac: The Yearbook of Welsh Writing in English is a stimulating academic journal featuring new research by established and emerging critics in the field.

Almanac aims to engage in a lively and informed way both with the Welsh literary past and with contemporary writing, looking towards the future and outwards towards the rest of the world.