Elements of this manuscript were first written as part of Naomi Pearce's PhD thesis 'Every Contact Leaves a Trace: A Forensic Feminist Investigation into Women Administrators, Gentrification and the Artist Studio', submitted to the University of Edinburgh in 2021. The novella 'Martello Street', printed here in an excerpted form, will be published in its entirety by MOIST Books in 2023. This title was first published in June 2022 by Kunstverein München. It is the seventh title in the series 'Unbidden Tongues'.