Nathan Walker is an artist and writer from West Cumbria, UK. Nathan works across and between performance art and poetry, exploring both the body and the page as sites for vocal exploration and the manipulation of sound and speech. They have developed their own vocal techniques for making audible non-linguistic and illegible marks on the page. They often describe their work as ‘action poetry’, reviving the term associated with sound poetry to consider poetry as a physical act. Their performances often take place over extended durations, sometimes several hours, during which time Nathan constructs spaces of intense listening and attention. They have performed internationally at festivals and galleries including Finland, USA, Germany, France and the UK. Their scores for vocal performances use collage, writing constraints and descriptions of previous performances to generate new approaches to reading, vocalisation and performance. These works have been published in books, magazines and journals most recently in Tripwire (USA), Mantis Journal (Stanford), The Queer Anthology of Wilderness (Pilot Press), and Blackbox Manifold (Sheffield). Their book Condensations was published in 2017 by Uniformbooks. Condensations ranges language as a collection of slow-collage-word-terrains where language is overlaid in dense textual marks to be navigated by the reader. Condensations was constructed following a residency at the Armitt Museum and Library in Ambleside, Cumbria and led to a commission for BBC Radio 3’s poetry programme The Verb. This book length score for vocal performance was listed as one of the The White Review’s Books of The Year (2017). Their book of computer generated performance scores, Action Score Generator, was published by If P Then Q in 2015 and exhibited as part of Conceptual Poetics exhibition at the Poetry Library. Between 2009 and 2019 Nathan co-founded and curated the arts organisation Oui Performance with artist Victoria Gray. Together they presented a series of performance art events in York, North Yorkshire programming over 50 artists to produce new performance works. Nathan’s PhD considered the relationship between performance art and poetry. They are senior lecturer of time-based practices in Fine Art & Photography at York St John University.