https://emmakemp.com Emma Kemp Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:56:22 +0000 https://emmakemp.com en https://emmakemp.com/about Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:13:02 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/about EMMA KEMP is a British nonfiction writer and media researcher based in Los Angeles. Her work in narrative documentary explores relationships between environment, sub/culture, and media, with an emphasis on anti-colonial and more-than-human frameworks. At the forefront of Environmental Media Studies, Emma’s interdisciplinary practice negotiates emerging technologies in service of ecological and cultural conservation. &nbsp; Emma is co-founder of Concerning Landscape, a non-profit research organization whose major project, No Canyon Hills (NCH) is a multiform entity forged in solidarity with the plant and animal communities of the Verdugo Mountains—ancestral land and unceded territory of the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians and the Gabrieleno (Tongva) Band of Mission Indians—that deploys cooperative actions and interventionist strategies across social, political, educational and legislative registers to investigate land use. Alongside NCH, Concerning Landscape oversees&nbsp;Bakersfield, a reparative earthwork and eco-media design studio led by Emma Kemp &amp; Mateo Altman. Emma is represented by Alison Lewis at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Her forthcoming book of cultural criticism,&nbsp;At The Bottom of Everything, is an authorized biography of the musical artist Conor Oberst, examining the influence of the millennial media landscape on artistry and fandom. ATBOE will be published in 2026-7 by Grand Central (US) and Penguin (UK/Commonwealth). Emma is a full-time Assistant Professor at Otis College of Art &amp; Design, where she teaches courses in Transmedia Documentary, Writing in the Post-Digital Age, Contemporary Practice, and more. She holds a BFA from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and an MFA in Writing &amp; Critical Studies from California Institute of the Arts. Emma has received numerous grants, awards, and fellowships for her work, including a Metabolic Studio/Annenberg Foundation Grant, Utah Humanities Fellowship, and more. Her work as NCH has been written about in the L.A. Times, KCAL, KPCC, and various other print and broadcast platforms. https://emmakemp.com/ATBOE Sat, 25 Jan 2025 17:16:58 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/ATBOE At The Bottom of Everything: Conor Oberst and our Dystopian Digital Age Publisher Grand Central; Penguin (2026/7) Details The first and only authorized biography of the artist Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes; Desaparecidos) by Emma Kemp. PressThe Bookseller https://emmakemp.com/REMOTE Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:52:27 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/REMOTE Remote Control Publisher East of Borneo Books, 2019 DetailsRemote*Control is an assemblage of essays, email diaries, experimental syllabi, memes, and observations produced by artist faculty at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.&nbsp;Classical typography collides with remnants of video conferencing interfaces, text glitches, and illustration to evoke the disorienting, ad hoc experience of learning and teaching in the COVID era and its subsequent erosion of institutional norms and control.&nbsp;These illustrations shift in resolution as bodies of water diffuse into droplets then congeal into typographic forms.&nbsp;The book was digitally printed with neon pink ink swapped in for the magenta channel, resulting in glowing, saturated imagery reminiscent of on screen color.&nbsp; Edited by Emma Kemp and Adriana Widdoes. Designed by Elana Schlenker with Élise Rigollet and Mimi Jiao. <img width="2400" height="1800" width_o="2400" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3badbdb1bf1c9b8a449ad20bd386e4f3530e1ca3889f79277aa2269999c7d1c2/Remote-Control-3.png" data-mid="225541839" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3badbdb1bf1c9b8a449ad20bd386e4f3530e1ca3889f79277aa2269999c7d1c2/Remote-Control-3.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/60185fa981080e76969fc4e3342dbdbfb491ba3e1ac766e3d70fed3ac7776812/Remote-Control-2.png" data-mid="225541837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/60185fa981080e76969fc4e3342dbdbfb491ba3e1ac766e3d70fed3ac7776812/Remote-Control-2.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3a80a8e3013beb954c85370a25c3de2a77645b816ea416761ce88a0cd487b9c/Remote-Control-1.png" data-mid="225541836" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f3a80a8e3013beb954c85370a25c3de2a77645b816ea416761ce88a0cd487b9c/Remote-Control-1.png" /> <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d3c932844fc4e33bb6dcd67b997e2a8c66c7a10b041bb5dc45bee643736a82b/Remote-Control-0.png" data-mid="225541835" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d3c932844fc4e33bb6dcd67b997e2a8c66c7a10b041bb5dc45bee643736a82b/Remote-Control-0.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c67005deb4a0e01385bffce0edab6072bf329b6e739f2908fb755f17ef1ed887/Remote-Control-5.png" data-mid="225541842" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c67005deb4a0e01385bffce0edab6072bf329b6e739f2908fb755f17ef1ed887/Remote-Control-5.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d508d9e9c0c82a60b9f110a4968e8478ab25c135863364bf5aa78a1bff809a6/Remote-Control-6.png" data-mid="225541848" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d508d9e9c0c82a60b9f110a4968e8478ab25c135863364bf5aa78a1bff809a6/Remote-Control-6.png" /> <img width="2000" height="1500" width_o="2000" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3be623ed4b3b3d6da4d8814b9aaf837b54afa81399d8985394585cf863e33dd2/Remote-Control-8.png" data-mid="225541859" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3be623ed4b3b3d6da4d8814b9aaf837b54afa81399d8985394585cf863e33dd2/Remote-Control-8.png" /> https://emmakemp.com/BLUE-POOL Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:47:21 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/BLUE-POOL Blue Pool, Cecelia PublisherImage Text Ithaca Press, 2018 &nbsp;Details In June 2017, ITI Press sent writer Emma Kemp and Walters–who had never met–on assignment to Walters’ hometown, a place “with a history of extraction, a town defined by its water… a leaky town in which the cycle of swelling and breaching initiates structural deformations.” Mining newspaper records and bar-stool conversations, Kemp’s writing careens along a damaged trajectory of women’s lives lived along the margins of the Mississippi. Equal parts travelogue, true crime drama and artist’s portrait, Kemp’s riveting and genre-bending text reveals how, in Walters’ photographs, “time shoves itself backwards and forwards, a crooked tideline extending through each girl and woman.” PressThe New Yorker <img width="940" height="705" width_o="940" height_o="705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/708618c1347a3f7a1166fca5602e866d238229b15704841592198979a3c46ddf/MG_9302_2_940x.jpeg" data-mid="225521651" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/940/i/708618c1347a3f7a1166fca5602e866d238229b15704841592198979a3c46ddf/MG_9302_2_940x.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8cb8ff522d96d2fefb9f34c5daa8f9491f453abd53f03844d7e6a7b3c921deba/Walters-26-1024x683.jpg" data-mid="225521663" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8cb8ff522d96d2fefb9f34c5daa8f9491f453abd53f03844d7e6a7b3c921deba/Walters-26-1024x683.jpg" /> <img width="1024" height="683" width_o="1024" height_o="683" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92fbe629c328f9fbcce52c30f05ce6b1d2a7fb89c965444285a798b5251b5869/Walters-2-1024x683.jpg" data-mid="225521662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92fbe629c328f9fbcce52c30f05ce6b1d2a7fb89c965444285a798b5251b5869/Walters-2-1024x683.jpg" /> <img width="940" height="705" width_o="940" height_o="705" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43b3998fbb71fe53b338537d1ed9e08a8451079ca56fb857757964abc40756ac/MG_9352_940x.jpeg" data-mid="225521652" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/940/i/43b3998fbb71fe53b338537d1ed9e08a8451079ca56fb857757964abc40756ac/MG_9352_940x.jpeg" /> https://emmakemp.com/ROCKHAVEN Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:47:02 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/ROCKHAVEN Rockhaven: a History of InteriorsPublisherWhich Witch, 2017 DetailsA collection of essays inspired by Rockhaven Sanitarium, Crescenta Valley's proto-feminist psychiatric institution founded in 1923. Featuring contributions from writers Allison Noelle Conner, Emma Kemp, Orenda Fink, Johanna Hedva, Suzanne Scanlon, Mady Schutzman, and Adriana Widdoes. Curated and Edited by Emma Kemp and Adriana Widdoes. Designed by Elana Schlenker. Digital Photography by Bridget Batch. <img width="892" height="597" width_o="892" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c48043edce871f903c859a4c127b3e1edf294b1ca1ace1fc71bd02bbfe4ea4d/463754418_2759690064199128_4133797445228949182_n.jpg" data-mid="225522636" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/892/i/8c48043edce871f903c859a4c127b3e1edf294b1ca1ace1fc71bd02bbfe4ea4d/463754418_2759690064199128_4133797445228949182_n.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1920" width_o="2880" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/657b99d39754420189c8988eee2c23a71fe80d6def5f41a9a7417bf2a024cfb2/bridgetbatch_rockhaven__MG_9853.jpg" data-mid="225559653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/657b99d39754420189c8988eee2c23a71fe80d6def5f41a9a7417bf2a024cfb2/bridgetbatch_rockhaven__MG_9853.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1920" width_o="2880" height_o="1920" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3014aa87f6411f6456d61ceb519b1c5861eb026049224d0b8b32c2f1a5608eae/bridgetbatch_rockhaven__MG_9848.jpg" data-mid="225559654" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3014aa87f6411f6456d61ceb519b1c5861eb026049224d0b8b32c2f1a5608eae/bridgetbatch_rockhaven__MG_9848.jpg" /> <img width="892" height="597" width_o="892" height_o="597" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5da7948c633b05e5dbb3dbb18238f88f784febe9145dc1afe548f6329229b71/463753688_2759690057532462_7687083182741588881_n.jpg" data-mid="225522695" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/892/i/a5da7948c633b05e5dbb3dbb18238f88f784febe9145dc1afe548f6329229b71/463753688_2759690057532462_7687083182741588881_n.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a1f1c0aed76730ec4a1d618002f8a70a78c7c31e6177ad4ffa6fd5cb6fa2bec/IMG_4406.jpg" data-mid="225559543" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a1f1c0aed76730ec4a1d618002f8a70a78c7c31e6177ad4ffa6fd5cb6fa2bec/IMG_4406.jpg" /> https://emmakemp.com/STUDIO-BAKERSFIELD Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:48:14 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/STUDIO-BAKERSFIELD STUDIO BAKERSFIELDis a reparative earthwork and eco-media design studio cofounded by Emma Kemp and Mateo Altman. SB integrates research and practice relating to regenerative systems, landscape design, urban planning, and animal architectures in service of ecosystem health and planetary resilience.https://bakersfield.studio/ https://emmakemp.com/NCH Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:15:14 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/NCH NO CANYON HILLS (NCH) is a community coalition and multiform entity forged in solidarity with Verdugo Mountains in Tovaangar, Los Angeles.https://nocanyonhills.org/ <img width="5534" height="3689" width_o="5534" height_o="3689" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/381adcee42abd9bfca7945799ade7da4697812015d786efa8cd70ebca88112b4/NCH_Profile.jpg" data-mid="225567683" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/381adcee42abd9bfca7945799ade7da4697812015d786efa8cd70ebca88112b4/NCH_Profile.jpg" /> <img width="4568" height="2328" width_o="4568" height_o="2328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/98c06397f67588176cf050b5d9660007d35b5484b34d49dd5d768c461cbda6f9/nch-event4.png" data-mid="225567622" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/98c06397f67588176cf050b5d9660007d35b5484b34d49dd5d768c461cbda6f9/nch-event4.png" /> <img width="5211" height="3627" width_o="5211" height_o="3627" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/32fdad8f7dd7425c910ded44ef5e132e7be5ec0fd039d6141120f15753da0418/Rom_240720_MAK_Cohab_1751.jpg" data-mid="225569856" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/32fdad8f7dd7425c910ded44ef5e132e7be5ec0fd039d6141120f15753da0418/Rom_240720_MAK_Cohab_1751.jpg" /> <img width="4422" height="2348" width_o="4422" height_o="2348" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f03182d9d855d3295428bdcdce86ae05a4c33b6d3c230ced1d9d9dbfdf0a001/nch-event1.png" data-mid="225567625" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f03182d9d855d3295428bdcdce86ae05a4c33b6d3c230ced1d9d9dbfdf0a001/nch-event1.png" /> <img width="1169" height="1133" width_o="1169" height_o="1133" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d449f8b97365e214a4dd0391ad9aba701eb00e199d4e6e031e4a5c448af88dfe/IMG_4685.jpg" data-mid="225567744" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d449f8b97365e214a4dd0391ad9aba701eb00e199d4e6e031e4a5c448af88dfe/IMG_4685.jpg" /> <img width="1169" height="1160" width_o="1169" height_o="1160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2a3150c4cfb1609d95c6aeb2ab36ce2cf76820c150fff105e0ee8706b9f5c11e/IMG_4682.jpg" data-mid="225567741" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2a3150c4cfb1609d95c6aeb2ab36ce2cf76820c150fff105e0ee8706b9f5c11e/IMG_4682.jpg" /> <img width="2612" height="1390" width_o="2612" height_o="1390" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2895b9985508e46acd92bc15023ee3280b9f577ecb311f83b598bf6f46bc096/NCH_Riso_Prints_Documentation.png" data-mid="225567680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2895b9985508e46acd92bc15023ee3280b9f577ecb311f83b598bf6f46bc096/NCH_Riso_Prints_Documentation.png" /> <img width="1796" height="2246" width_o="1796" height_o="2246" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d3b7809048ea75812663c4c8a0ab50d488b53ee979c7eee34d9243085b545e1/Total-Landscaping.png" data-mid="225567715" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6d3b7809048ea75812663c4c8a0ab50d488b53ee979c7eee34d9243085b545e1/Total-Landscaping.png" /> <img width="2684" height="1336" width_o="2684" height_o="1336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ea6eb982e5ce64197f6c22e9aa5452934679b52d64a0dd1fe9ad66dde462f4b9/Screenshot-2023-06-30-at-10.51.51-AM.png" data-mid="225567685" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ea6eb982e5ce64197f6c22e9aa5452934679b52d64a0dd1fe9ad66dde462f4b9/Screenshot-2023-06-30-at-10.51.51-AM.png" /> <img width="4402" height="2320" width_o="4402" height_o="2320" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d42dac70bfcecdd3ba547639189c7baffaa89ef44ef29439673d2dd3d2aac589/nch-event2.png" data-mid="225567624" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d42dac70bfcecdd3ba547639189c7baffaa89ef44ef29439673d2dd3d2aac589/nch-event2.png" /> https://emmakemp.com/PUMACAM Sun, 26 Jan 2025 23:56:22 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/PUMACAM PUMACAMis a project that aggregates public surveillance recordings to track the movement of the threatened California Cougar (Puma concolor) in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. https://pumacam.com/ https://emmakemp.com/editorial-1 Mon, 18 May 2020 18:08:22 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/editorial-1 Selected Publications, Interviews, etc.Selling Altadena: Notes on the AI-assisted Marketing of Altadena’s Burn Zone, 2025 Experiments in Cohabitation, MAK Center/Schindler House, 2024 Los Angeles Festival of Movies w/Alison C. Nguyn, Ren Ebel, Mike Stoltz, 2024 Place Settings No. 6, ‘Only Fans’, 2024&nbsp; From Earthwork to Test Plot for Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles Issue 36 Memory Arcade Dream Space or Continuous Sidewalk for X-TRA Online Blind Dates &amp; Reunions with Whitney Hubbs, Claudia Rankine &amp; more Barbara T. Smith “The Way to Be” Getty Center, Los Angeles for Flash ArtOn Mark Alice Durant’s “Maya Deren” for Los Angeles Review of Books “Full Stop Call Them Paintings” for X-TRA Online “Out Past the Eye-Mark” for X-TRA Spring/Summer 2021 The Rise of the Clickbait Restaurant (The Culture Journalist Podcast) “When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.” for X-TRA Online Little House of Flowers: Al Larvick National Grant “AUTOFICCIÓN Laida Lertxundi + Emma Kemp In Conversation,” Now Instant Urgency Reader 1 &amp; 2 edited by Paul Soulellis REMOTE/CONTROL, East of Borneo “GUSHGUSHGUSH,” Reading Machines by Tiger Dingsun Ghost Ops: Counterfeit Kitchens in the Pandemic Age (PDF) “Wednesdays at 5PM,” iTi Thesis SamplerBlue Pool, Cecelia (iTi Press, 2018) Rockhaven: A History of Interiors feat.&nbsp;Johanna Hedva and Suzanne Scanlon https://emmakemp.com/contact Sat, 25 Jan 2025 19:21:11 +0000 Emma Kemp https://emmakemp.com/contact Research&nbsp; ekemp@calarts.edu Media Inquirieswritetoeek@gmail.com Rights&nbsp; atl@goldinlit.com