Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby explores the artist’s work through a collection of newly commissioned writing and previously published essays by Etel Adnan, Charlie Hewison, Etienne Kallos, Carolina Magis Weinberg, Barbara McBane, Glenn Phillips, Lynne Sachs, Michael Sicinski, Jeffrey Skoller, Jordan Stein, Jalal Toufic, Tanya Zimbardo, and interviews with Kirby and Lissa Gibbs, Alexandra Grant, Megan Kiskaddon, Rachel Ralph, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. In lieu of standard photo documentation, the book includes Kirby's black & white scans.

Lynn Marie Kirby is a San Francisco-based artist focused on questions of place, the residue of history, and social choreography. Her conceptual practice engages time as a material, different sensory systems, improvisation and collaboration, accidents that make her jump, and forms of contemplation. She is the co-author of XAB's previous publication Oracular Transmissions.

Etienne Kallos is a Greek–South African filmmaker. Kallos is the recipient of multiple awards including the Sundance-Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award in 2012, the Gan Foundation’s Prix Opening Shot Award in 2013, the Mahindra Global Filmmaker Award in 2012, a Golden Lion at Venice for his 27-minute fiction Firstborn in 2009, and the Rome IFF Best First Feature award.

Megan Kiskaddon is the Executive Director of On the Boards in Seattle, WA. Previously, she led the Education and Community Engagement division at SFMOMA. She holds a BA in Sociology from Mills College and an MA from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University. 

Carolina Magis Weinberg is a whether reporter, a sight specific artist, and a confetti archivist. Through her visual and textual artistic practice, she explores the multiple cultural, accented, and linguistic dimensions of perception, representation, and experience of space, territory, and maps. She lives and works in Mexico City.

Barbara McBane is an independent scholar, media artist, educator, and poet. Following an award-winning career as a feature film sound editor, she taught film, sound, and sexuality studies at the University of California, Davis; the University of California, Santa Cruz; Sonoma State University; and Ardmore Studios, Dublin, Ireland. She is the former Head of Critical Studies at the Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art in Brittany, France; has published in many journals and anthologies; and holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, musical composer, also known as a feminist, postcolonial and intersectional theorist. She is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work includes numerous books, several large-scale multimedia installations, and nine feature-length films honored in over sixty-four retrospectives around the world.

Glenn Phillips is Senior Curator, Head of Exhibitions and Head of Modern & Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. He specializes in postwar and contemporary art, including video, performance, and other time-based practices.

Rachel Ralph is an independent curator, writer, and project manager based in Denver, CO. She holds a BA in art history from Colorado State University and an MA in the history and theory of contemporary art from the San Francisco Art Institute. She has worked in galleries and museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and is the former director of FFDG in San Francisco.

Lynne Sachs is an experimental filmmaker and poet living in Brooklyn, New York. Embracing archives, diaries, letters, and music, her films take us on a critical journey through reality and memory. Working from a feminist perspective, Sachs investigates the connections between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. 

Michael Sicinski teaches in the English and Fine Arts departments at the University of Houston. He has published widely on experimental film and video.

Jeffrey Skoller is a writer, filmmaker, and Professor Emeritus of Film studies at UC Berkeley. His films have been exhibited internationally. His essays and articles on experimental film and video have appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Film Quarterly; Discourse; Representations; Afterimage; Animation; World Records. He is the author of two books: Shadows, Specters, Shards: Making History in Avant-Garde Film (University of Minnesota Press) and POSTWAR: The Films of Daniel Eisenberg (Blackdog Press).

Jordan Stein is a curator based in San Francisco and the author of Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces (Soberscove Press, 2021) and Miyoko Ito: Heart of Hearts, a monograph on the singular Japanese-American artist (Pre-Echo Press, 2024). In 2017, he founded Cushion Works, an exhibition space that aims to link past and present through the varied presentation of critical— and often overlooked—artworks, histories, and ideas.

Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. 

Tanya Zimbardo is a San Francisco-based curator. As an Assistant Curator of Media Arts at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, she has organized several exhibitions. She has co-edited exhibition catalogs for the museum and for guest curatorial projects including the recent publication "Bonnie: Ora Sherk: Life Frames since 1970" (Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture). Zimbardo has curated exhibitions and screenings for nonprofit organizations and contributed to publications including Feminist Media Histories, INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media, and VoCA Journal.

Dana Collins grew up in a touring and signed punk/hardcore/thrash/whatever-you-want-to-call-it kind of band. Before he ever heard the term "graphic design," he was making and xeroxing flyers, doing paste-up mechanicals for record covers, pulling silkscreen posters and t-shirts in his mom's garage, making punk pins, inking logos, spray painting things he was not supposed to spray paint, etc., doing what he could to get the band name in front of as many punker eyeballs as possible. Little did he know, this unorthodox upbringing and DIY ethos would serve as proper soil for a graphic design career. He is the father of four and grandfather of two and lives somewhere in that grid-thing known as Los Angeles.

Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby is published as part of X Artists’ Books’ X Topics (XT) series, a collection of books focused on the writing and ideas of marginalized voices.