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- SPILL Festival Of Performance: On Agency. 2010
- Lusus Naturae: Porca Miseria and the Spectacle of Shamelessness. Article by Lee Adams, image Rafael Perez-Evans, digital operator Monka Elkelv. Published in Stimulus Respond Journal, Circus edition. Edited by Jack Boulton. 2010
- Visions of Excess reviewed by Michele Occelli. 2009
- NYC Go-Go Photographs from Lee Adams performance of Bestiary at The Cock, NYC in November 2007, published in Slava Mogutin's monograph NYC Go-Go (powerHouse Books) with and accompanying essay by Bruce Benderson.
- Encounters photographic/live art project with Manuel Vason & Empress Stah, published by Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (photograph only). 2007
- Art Attack - The Pain Principal. 3 page interview by Denise Stanborough. Bizarre Magazine, October 2007.
- Epsilon Magazine Issue 867 - London Underground feature. Photograph by Socrates Mitsios. 2007
- The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth reviewed by Kate Random-Love in Total Theatre Magazine, volume 18, issue 04. 2006
- The Monster in the Night of the Labyrinth reviewed by Dominic Johnson in Western European Stages, volume 19 Number 1. Editor Marvin Carlson. Published by Martin R. Segal Theater Center, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York. 2006
- Bindu Point documentation published in Body, Space, Technology Journal, volume 5. Brunel University. 2005
- Live: Art, Performance and the Contemporary. Edited by Adrian Heathfield and produced in collaboration with Tate Publishing. (Photograph) courtesy of Hugo Glendinning (photograph only). 2004
- The Bachelor Stripped Bare reviewed by Professor Robert Ayers in Live Art Magazine. 2002
- Cruising Interview with Joan Bakewell and performance filmed for Taboo - 50 Years of Censorship BBC2 Television. 2001
- Government of the First & Thirteenth Chair; Re-staging of seminal work by John Latham to coincide with Latham's retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, reviewed in Performance Research Magazine. 1992