Writing
Dr Tōmei June Bacon’s academic research and other writing is published under the name T J Bacon. She does this to draw distinction between her visual art practice and her writing. However she acknowledges the blurring between both through framing her written practice as an artist-philosopher. She is particularly interested in exploring writing that queers traditions of scholarly correctness, disrupting what is appropriate “form”, and will write to explore multimodal frames of expression; enhancing both the capture of phenomenological encounters and the way in which we experience reading them.
Peer Reviewed Authored
books
Bacon T.J., 2022. An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art, Intellect Books, UK.
Bacon T.J., 2017. Experiencing a Multiplicity of Self/s (thesis), University of Bristol.
Co-Authored Peer Reviewed Books:
Bacon T. J., Andronikidis I., Cremers P., Damhof L., Fryer N., Guadagni A., Gudanowska A., Gulmans J., Kazemier E., Komorowska K., Kononiuk A., Kozłowska J., Loukopoulou K., Magruk A., Mazur R., Mulhern K., Papaterpou A., Pasta G., Profitiliotis G., Rollnik-Sadowska E., Senna P.d., SiderskaJ., Zadeh K. R., Walaszczyk L. 2023. Replay your futures: training manual high school facilitators. Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. Random, Poland.
Bacon T. J., Cremers P., Damhof L., Guadagni A., Gudanowska A., Gulmans J., Kazemier E., Komorowska K., Kononiuk A., Kozłowska J., Magruk A., Mazur R., Papaterpou A., Pasta G., Profitiliotis G., Rollnik-Sadowska E., Senna P.d., SiderskaJ. 2022. Replay your futures – Labs for exploring undiscovered pathways. Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. Random, Poland.
Peer Reviewed Books edited by the candidate:
Bacon T.J., 2025. The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art, Taylor Francis Routledge, London.
Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Edited Books:
Bacon T.J. 20245 (expected). Hidden Disability: A Queer Phenomenology of Disorientation: a queer phenomenology. In: Ladron De Guevara V. G., Mock R., Young H., The Routledge Companion to Bodies in Performance; Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025 (expected). 1588 days and counting. In: Cianfarani, M., Overton, L., and Rushton, M. Hazards, Queering disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises. Palgrave Macmilan.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The fluidity or transmutability of borders held in the lived body of trans and non-binary bodies. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody pain. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody care. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody disruption. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. and Coon C. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody performance art! In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J., Coon C. and Haghpanah-Shirwin, B. 2025. In Conversation: Franko B and Andre Molodkin. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Louis Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. Blood Rituals – A Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Hermann Nitsch. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Mike Parr. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. and Jordan, K. 2025. In Conversation: ORLAN and Marina Abramović. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: tjb and Ron Athey. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Marissa Carnesky and Poppy Jackson. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon, T. and de Senna, P. 2023. Performance for futures (Intellectual Output 3). in: de Senna, P., Gulmans, J. and Kononiuk, A. (ed.) Replay Your Futures: Training Manual for High School Facilitators Radom, Poland Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. pp. 54-74.
Bacon, T. J. and de Senna, P. 2022. Performance for futures (Intellectual Output 2). in: Replay your futures: Labs for exploring undiscovered pathways Radom, Poland Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. pp. 189-229.
Bacon, T. J. 2022. The argument for queering 'The origin of the work of art'. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 243-246 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_5
Bacon, T. J. 2022. Embodied experience. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 19-88 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_1
Bacon, T. J. 2022. The intersubjectivity and intercorporeality of noise and sonic arts. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 139 – 177 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_3
Bacon, T. J. 2022. The rapture and rupture of the lived body. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 93 – 139 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_2
Bacon, T. J. 2022. Introduction to phenomenology and SELF/s. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 1-19.
Bacon, T. J. 2022. An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s. Bristol, UK Intellect.
Bacon, T. 2020. T. J. Bacon reflects on CHTHONIC. in: Guttenplan, Z. (ed.) Emergency index: an annual document of performance practice New York, US Ugly Duckling Presse. pp. 286-7.
Bacon, T. 2018. Psychogenesis series. in: Gluzman, Y. and Cleary, S. (ed.) Emergency index: an annual document of performance practice New York, US Ugly Duckling Presse. pp. 116-117.
Bacon, T. 2018. Foreword [The furthest point in space is also inside our body]. in: Dolphin-Krute, M. and Martinez, C. C. (ed.) No one thing is the root of all anything: phases and performance of the imminent by Chelsea Coon Los Angeles, CA Not a Cult. pp. 1-6.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals
Bacon T.J., 2011. ‘Traces of Being: a document of absence in words.’ activate, Issue 1, Volume 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 1-19.
Bacon T.J., 2022. An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art, Intellect Books, UK.
Bacon T.J., 2017. Experiencing a Multiplicity of Self/s (thesis), University of Bristol.
Co-Authored Peer Reviewed Books:
Bacon T. J., Andronikidis I., Cremers P., Damhof L., Fryer N., Guadagni A., Gudanowska A., Gulmans J., Kazemier E., Komorowska K., Kononiuk A., Kozłowska J., Loukopoulou K., Magruk A., Mazur R., Mulhern K., Papaterpou A., Pasta G., Profitiliotis G., Rollnik-Sadowska E., Senna P.d., SiderskaJ., Zadeh K. R., Walaszczyk L. 2023. Replay your futures: training manual high school facilitators. Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. Random, Poland.
Bacon T. J., Cremers P., Damhof L., Guadagni A., Gudanowska A., Gulmans J., Kazemier E., Komorowska K., Kononiuk A., Kozłowska J., Magruk A., Mazur R., Papaterpou A., Pasta G., Profitiliotis G., Rollnik-Sadowska E., Senna P.d., SiderskaJ. 2022. Replay your futures – Labs for exploring undiscovered pathways. Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. Random, Poland.
Peer Reviewed Books edited by the candidate:
Bacon T.J., 2025. The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art, Taylor Francis Routledge, London.
Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters in Edited Books:
Bacon T.J. 20245 (expected). Hidden Disability: A Queer Phenomenology of Disorientation: a queer phenomenology. In: Ladron De Guevara V. G., Mock R., Young H., The Routledge Companion to Bodies in Performance; Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025 (expected). 1588 days and counting. In: Cianfarani, M., Overton, L., and Rushton, M. Hazards, Queering disasters, climate change and humanitarian crises. Palgrave Macmilan.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The fluidity or transmutability of borders held in the lived body of trans and non-binary bodies. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody pain. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody care. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody disruption. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. and Coon C. 2025. The phenomenology of bloody performance art! In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J., Coon C. and Haghpanah-Shirwin, B. 2025. In Conversation: Franko B and Andre Molodkin. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Louis Fleischauer and Ernst Fischer. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. Blood Rituals – A Provocation to Queer a Phenomenological Soil. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Hermann Nitsch. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Mike Parr. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. and Jordan, K. 2025. In Conversation: ORLAN and Marina Abramović. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: tjb and Ron Athey. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon T.J. 2025. In Conversation: Marissa Carnesky and Poppy Jackson. In: Bacon T.J. and Coon C., The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art. Taylor Francis Routledge.
Bacon, T. and de Senna, P. 2023. Performance for futures (Intellectual Output 3). in: de Senna, P., Gulmans, J. and Kononiuk, A. (ed.) Replay Your Futures: Training Manual for High School Facilitators Radom, Poland Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. pp. 54-74.
Bacon, T. J. and de Senna, P. 2022. Performance for futures (Intellectual Output 2). in: Replay your futures: Labs for exploring undiscovered pathways Radom, Poland Łukasiewicz Research Network - Institute for Sustainable Technologies. pp. 189-229.
Bacon, T. J. 2022. The argument for queering 'The origin of the work of art'. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 243-246 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_5
Bacon, T. J. 2022. Embodied experience. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 19-88 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_1
Bacon, T. J. 2022. The intersubjectivity and intercorporeality of noise and sonic arts. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 139 – 177 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_3
Bacon, T. J. 2022. The rapture and rupture of the lived body. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 93 – 139 DOI: 10.1386/9781789385304_2
Bacon, T. J. 2022. Introduction to phenomenology and SELF/s. in: An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s Bristol, UK Intellect. pp. 1-19.
Bacon, T. J. 2022. An introduction to the phenomenology of performance art: SELF/s. Bristol, UK Intellect.
Bacon, T. 2020. T. J. Bacon reflects on CHTHONIC. in: Guttenplan, Z. (ed.) Emergency index: an annual document of performance practice New York, US Ugly Duckling Presse. pp. 286-7.
Bacon, T. 2018. Psychogenesis series. in: Gluzman, Y. and Cleary, S. (ed.) Emergency index: an annual document of performance practice New York, US Ugly Duckling Presse. pp. 116-117.
Bacon, T. 2018. Foreword [The furthest point in space is also inside our body]. in: Dolphin-Krute, M. and Martinez, C. C. (ed.) No one thing is the root of all anything: phases and performance of the imminent by Chelsea Coon Los Angeles, CA Not a Cult. pp. 1-6.
Peer-Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals
Bacon T.J., 2011. ‘Traces of Being: a document of absence in words.’ activate, Issue 1, Volume 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 1-19.
Inspirational Music
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Bacon T. J. Bean A., 2020. ‘CHTHONIC reflection.’ Come Hell or High Water Zine.
Bacon T.J., 2018. ‘Tempting Failure in 2018,’ Exeunt.
Bacon T.J., 2018, ‘Public money should fund art for everyone, even if some hate it!’ The Stage.
Bacon T.J., 2016. ‘Top Pick by Thomas John Bacon, Artistic Director Tempting Failure 2016,’ This is Unbound, Live Art Development Agency.
Martin A., 2016. ‘Tempting us to the Edge of Art,’ Croydonist.
Muehlemann N., 2016. ‘Challenging Spaces: Access and Performance Art – A roundtable discussion at Tempting Failure festival,’ Disability Arts Online.
LaGaccia D., 2016. ‘Coverage of TF2016’, Incident Magazine, New YorkBacon T.J., 2014, ‘Interview with Thomas John Bacon’ Don’t Panic Online.
Alexander F. K., 2014. ‘Theatre of Risk,’ Exeunt Magazine.
Martin D. D., 2014. ‘In conversation with Thomas John Bacon,’ Exeunt Magazine.
Gardner L., 2014. ‘What makes a great theatre festival?,’ The Guardian.
Bacon T.J., 2012. ‘Why aren’t people writing about theatre in the south west?,’ Nom De Strip, Plymouth University.
Bacon T. J. Bean A., 2020. ‘CHTHONIC reflection.’ Come Hell or High Water Zine.
Bacon T.J., 2018. ‘Tempting Failure in 2018,’ Exeunt.
Bacon T.J., 2018, ‘Public money should fund art for everyone, even if some hate it!’ The Stage.
Bacon T.J., 2016. ‘Top Pick by Thomas John Bacon, Artistic Director Tempting Failure 2016,’ This is Unbound, Live Art Development Agency.
Martin A., 2016. ‘Tempting us to the Edge of Art,’ Croydonist.
Muehlemann N., 2016. ‘Challenging Spaces: Access and Performance Art – A roundtable discussion at Tempting Failure festival,’ Disability Arts Online.
LaGaccia D., 2016. ‘Coverage of TF2016’, Incident Magazine, New YorkBacon T.J., 2014, ‘Interview with Thomas John Bacon’ Don’t Panic Online.
Alexander F. K., 2014. ‘Theatre of Risk,’ Exeunt Magazine.
Martin D. D., 2014. ‘In conversation with Thomas John Bacon,’ Exeunt Magazine.
Gardner L., 2014. ‘What makes a great theatre festival?,’ The Guardian.
Bacon T.J., 2012. ‘Why aren’t people writing about theatre in the south west?,’ Nom De Strip, Plymouth University.
Non-Published Conference Contributions
Bacon T.J., 2024. Queer Acts of Hope (line of enquiry launch) as part of De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research. Guildhall School of music and Drama, London.
Bacon T.J., 2023. Performance for Futures Symposium. Featuring Pedro de Senna, Nic Fryer, Katerina Loukopoulou. Middlesex University, London.
Bacon T.J., 2017. Lunchtime Crit, Turf Projects Gallery, London.
Bacon T.J., 2016. In-Utero Roundtable, Featuring: Thomas John Bacon, Anne Bean, Esther Neff, Lois Keidan, Chelsea Coon, Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees - Live Art Development Agency, London.
Bacon T.J., 2015. Evolving a Curatorial Practice, Featuring: Thomas John Bacon speaking as FK Alexander, Association for Performance Art Berlin (APAB) - GlogaAir, Berlin.
Bacon T.J., 2014. Paying Artists: programming performance platforms - the challenges and successes, Chaired by Kerry Irvine (ScenePool / Bath Spa University), Featuring: Thomas John Bacon - Tempting Failure , Hannah Clark - Bristol Biennial, Simon Day - Theatre Bristol, BE Festival, & Plasticine Men, Tania Harrison - Latitude Festival, Adam Young - LAB, Joseph Young - a-n Artist's Information Company. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol.
Bacon T.J., 2014. Bodily Boundaries: duration & limits of Self, Chaired by Dr. Paul Clarke (University of Bristol / Uninvited Guests), Featuring: Thomas John Bacon, Hellen Burrough, Chelsea Coon & Kali Rose. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol.
Bacon T.J. (chair), 2013. Perceiving a Lived Body through Transgression, Play, Failure & Duration (Space), Featuring: Tom Bresolin, Dani Abulhawa, Vera Chok, Ernst Fischer. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol
Bacon T.J. (chair), 2012. Sound/Music/Noise in Performance Art, Featuring: Ron Athey, Leif Elggren, Vicky Langan and Holly Ingleton. Extreme Rituals, Arnolfini, Bristol.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-6946
Bacon T.J., 2024. Queer Acts of Hope (line of enquiry launch) as part of De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and Research. Guildhall School of music and Drama, London.
Bacon T.J., 2023. Performance for Futures Symposium. Featuring Pedro de Senna, Nic Fryer, Katerina Loukopoulou. Middlesex University, London.
Bacon T.J., 2017. Lunchtime Crit, Turf Projects Gallery, London.
Bacon T.J., 2016. In-Utero Roundtable, Featuring: Thomas John Bacon, Anne Bean, Esther Neff, Lois Keidan, Chelsea Coon, Adam York Gregory & Gillian Jane Lees - Live Art Development Agency, London.
Bacon T.J., 2015. Evolving a Curatorial Practice, Featuring: Thomas John Bacon speaking as FK Alexander, Association for Performance Art Berlin (APAB) - GlogaAir, Berlin.
Bacon T.J., 2014. Paying Artists: programming performance platforms - the challenges and successes, Chaired by Kerry Irvine (ScenePool / Bath Spa University), Featuring: Thomas John Bacon - Tempting Failure , Hannah Clark - Bristol Biennial, Simon Day - Theatre Bristol, BE Festival, & Plasticine Men, Tania Harrison - Latitude Festival, Adam Young - LAB, Joseph Young - a-n Artist's Information Company. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol.
Bacon T.J., 2014. Bodily Boundaries: duration & limits of Self, Chaired by Dr. Paul Clarke (University of Bristol / Uninvited Guests), Featuring: Thomas John Bacon, Hellen Burrough, Chelsea Coon & Kali Rose. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol.
Bacon T.J. (chair), 2013. Perceiving a Lived Body through Transgression, Play, Failure & Duration (Space), Featuring: Tom Bresolin, Dani Abulhawa, Vera Chok, Ernst Fischer. Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol
Bacon T.J. (chair), 2012. Sound/Music/Noise in Performance Art, Featuring: Ron Athey, Leif Elggren, Vicky Langan and Holly Ingleton. Extreme Rituals, Arnolfini, Bristol.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9859-6946