Birrell, Ross, MacDonald, Raymond, DeNora, Tia, Burke, Robert and Sappho, Maria (2025) New Directions in Musical Collaborative Creativity: The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and the Theatre of Home. Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN 9780197752876 (online) 9780197752838 (print)

Birrell, Ross (2018) The Parasite. documenta 14, Kassel.

Birrell, Ross (2014) An Envoy Reader. LemonMelon, London. ISBN 978 1 908260 12 3

Birrell, Ross, Harding, David and Gordon, Douglas (2014) You like this garden? Ross Birrell / David Harding and Douglas Gordon. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. ISBN 978-3-928071-92-5

Birrell, Ross and Finlay, Alec, eds. (2002) Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counterculture, 1960-2000. Pocketbooks, Edinburgh. ISBN 0748663231

Birrell, Ross (2023) Weird and Eerie Visions. In: One Beautiful Day. The Modern Institute, Glasgow, pp. 19-21.

Birrell, Ross (2022) Snaebjörnsdóttir / Wilson: Dwelling in a Democracy of Species. In: Debatable Lands. Ger∂arsafn, Kopavogur, Iceland, pp. 249-261. ISBN 978-9935-9213-1-4

Birrell, Ross (2017) What is it to read? In: The documenta 14 Reader. Prestel, Kassel, pp. 299-320. ISBN 978-3-7913-5657-0

Smyth, Adam, Partington, Gill and Birrell, Ross (2014) Book Torture: An Interview with Ross Birrell. In: Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary. New Directions in Book History . Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 74-86. ISBN 978-1-137-44325-9

Birrell, Ross and Sadler, Simon (2006) Somewhere between Utopia and Reality. In: Arcade: Artists and Place-making. Black Dog Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1904772544

Birrell, Ross (2005) Meaningless Work: Art as Abstract labour, notes on Santiago Sierra and the Political Economy of Man Under Capitalism’ and ‘Labour Exchange: A Dialogue with Santiago Sierra. In: Transcript 2 Cross-Wired: Communication – Interface – Locality. Manchester University Press in association with School of Fine Art, DJCAD, pp. 93-109. ISBN 0719070376

Birrell, Ross (2005) The Gift of Terror: Suicide Bombing as Potlatch. In: Art in the Age of Terrorism. Paul Holberton Press, London, pp. 96-113. ISBN 1903470412

Burke, Robert, Donohue, Maria Sappho, MacDonald, Raymond, DeNora, Tia and Birrell, Ross (2025) Opening up openings: Zooming in on improvisation in the Theater of Home. Psychology of Music, 53 (3). pp. 358-396. ISSN 0305-7356

Birrell, Ross and MacDonald, Raymond (2021) Flattening the Curve: Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra’s Use of Virtual Improvising to Maintain Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation, 14 (2-3). ISSN 1712-0624

MacDonald, Raymond, Burke, Robert, De Nora, Tia, Donohue, Maria Sappho and Birrell, Ross (2021) Our Virtual Tribe: Sustaining and Enhancing Community via Online Music Improvisation. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1664-1078

Birrell, Ross (2018) Notes on works for documenta 14, Athens & Kassel, 2017. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 18 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 1470-2029

Birrell, Ross (2017) A Beautiful Living Thing. Performance Research, 22 (1). pp. 115-119. ISSN 1352-8165

Birrell, Ross (2016) Envoy: Angel of Post-History. South as a State of Mind, 8 / 3. pp. 185-197. ISSN 2241-3901

Birrell, Ross (2010) Envoy - The Destiny of the World. Visual culture in Britain, 11 (3). pp. 407-411. ISSN 1471-4787

Bottomley, Stephen, Cherry, Norman, Alexander, Dauvit, Gordon, Anna, Birrell, Ross and Fraser, Alistair (2025) Welcome Talk at the Symposium -“Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels” at the Glasgow School of Art. In: Symposium -“Swords into Ploughshares: Knives into Jewels” Glasgow School of Art, 21.02.2025, Reid Auditorium Glasgow School of Art.

Wall, Gina, Birrell, Ross, Thomson, Amanda, Loder, Dave, Kolesova, Elena, Kapalova, Altyn, Sundar Harris, Usha, Ashrafi, Soheil, Garbutt, Michael and Janani, Setar (2023) A Living Land: Landscape, Place and Care - Presentation on "below, the rocks plunged into darkness". In: A Living Land: Landscape, Place and Care GSA – UCA Research Symposium, 9 November 2023 9.00am-12.00noon GMT // 3.00pm-6.00pm KGT, Online between The Glasgow School of Art and University of Central Asia, Naryn, Kyrgyzstan.

Birrell, Ross, MacDonald, Raymond, Argo, Jessica and Donohue, Maria Sappho (2022) Ensemble Improvisation and Moving-image in the Zoom-welt. In: Music and the Moving Image Conference XVIII, 26-29 May 2022, NYU (Steinhardt).

Birrell, Ross (2021) In Memoriam Gustav Metzger. In: The Art of Gustav Metzger and Climate Activism, 3 Nov 2021, The Common Guild.

Donohue, Maria, MacDonald, Raymond, De Nora, Tia, Burke, Robert and Birrell, Ross (2021) Some serious play: Collaborative online music making by the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. In: Accessing Jazz and Improvised Music, 5-6 June 2021, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, The University of Sydney and the Australasian Jazz and Improvisation Research.

Birrell, Ross (2018) Wanna Be a Rider (Notes on Parasite Joy). In: The Parliament of Bodies: The Strategy of Joy, 8-10 Sept 2018, Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz 18, Kassel.

Birrell, Ross (2018) What is it to read? In: The Society of Friends of Ulises Carrión: What is it to read? with Ross Birrell, 12 July 2018, Parko Eleftherias, Athens Municipality Arts Center and Museum of Anti-dictatorial and Democratic Resistance.

Birrell, Ross and Szymczyk, Adam (2018) Bilocations: Ross Birrell & Adam Szymczyk in conversation. In: Glasgow International, 21 April 2018, Reid Auditorium, The Glasgow School of Art.

Birrell, Ross (2018) Posse, Parasites and Polyphony: Morphologies of the Multitude. In: Seminar 2018: No Commons Without Commoning, 30 Jan - 1 Feb 2018, ERG, école de recherche graphique, École Supérieure des Arts (ESA),Brussels.

Crotch, Joanna and Birrell, Ross (2015) A Beautiful Living Thing. In: Reading Architecture Across the Arts and Humanities, 5-6 Dec 2015, University of Stirling, UK.

Birrell, Ross (2014) 'The Unforeseeable: The Event and Gift of Uncertainty', Keynote Talk and Charrette leader for 'Forthcoming Materials of Practice: A Symposium in Two Halves', Edinburgh College of Art, 3 October 2014. In: Forthcoming Materials of Practice, A Symposium in Two Halves, ECA, 3 Oct 2014, Edinburgh College of Art.

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2025) Love (Dante Desire Path).

Birrell, Ross (2014) Being and Time; A Dice Throw; Conrad's Hand [Works exhibited in Counterpoint, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh].

Birrell, Ross (2014) Sonata.

Birrell, Ross, West, Cornel, Critchley, Simon, Dronsfield, Jonathan, Cussans, John, Mirza, Haroon, Boy, Johnny and Wiinstanley, Russ (2012) Stand Up Now / 3 Before 8.

Birrell, Ross (2005) Eternal Now.

Birrell, Ross and MacDonald, Raymond (2021) GIOfest XIV: Reconnections and New Directions. CCA, 25-27 Nov 2020

Birrell, Ross and Kaneko, Yasuko (2021) Kokoro and other film re-mixes (Horike's Heartbeat). Horike, Soja City Art Museum, Okayama, Japan, 9, 11 Nov 2021

Birrell, Ross, Harding, David, Türkoz, Saadet, Rohrer, Thomas and Mbembe, Achille (2021) Audi Alteram Partem. Krimminallabteilung Stadtpolizei Mühleweg, Zurich, 3-7 Nov 2021

Birrell, Ross and Gómez, Ángela Hoyos (2021) Unquiet Earth. Online broadcast, 18 July 2021

Birrell, Ross and MacDonald, Raymond (2020) GIOfest XIII: flattening the curve. CCA, 26-28 Nov 2020

Birrell, Ross and Weiss, Rachel (2020) Gloves Improvisation for Rachel Weiss, Edge Zones, 9th Miami Performance Festival International 2020. Online festival, Miami, 9-11 Sep 2020

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2019) Triptych, installation for Charged. Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, USA, 21 Sep 2019 - 16 Feb 2020

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2018) Triptych, Edinburgh Art Festival. Trinity Apse, Edinburgh, 26 Jul - 26 Aug 2018

Birrell, Ross (2018) The Transit of Hermes (Inverness). Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, 21 July - 15 Sept 2018

Birrell, Ross (2018) The Transit of Hermes (CCA). CCA, Glasgow, 19 Apr - 3 Jun 2018

Birrell, Ross (2017) Criollo. Neu Neu Galerie, Kassel, 10 Jun - 17 Sep 2017

Birrell, Ross (2017) The Athens-Kassel Ride: The Transit of Hermes (d14). Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, 9 Apr - 10 Jul 2017

Birrell, Ross (2017) The Transit of Hermes (d14). Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, 9 Apr - 10 Jul 2017

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2015) Where language ends. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 14 March - 2 May 2015

Birrell, Ross (2015) The beginnings of that freedom, Parliament in the Making (2015). Westminster Hall, UK Parliament, Palace of Westminster, London, 20 January -12 December 2015

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2014) Winter Line. Kunsthalle Basel, 17 January - 23 March 2014

Birrell, Ross (2013) Duet: Lift Me Up For I Am Dying.

Birrell, Ross, Bilbao, Carolina and Fagen, Graham (2013) Rodeo: Artists Films on R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2012) Quartet / Olinka Variations.

Birrell, Ross, Harding, David and Gordon, Douglas (2011) Ross Birrell/David Harding and Douglas Gordon, You Like This Garden? Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 18 Nov 2011 - 22 Jan 2012

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2010) Guantanamera. Americas Society / Council of the Americas, 680 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, 17 May - 30 July 2011

Birrell, Ross (2005) Homo Ludens: Works from the Envoy Series, 1998-2005.

Birrell, Ross (2002) Envoy - a series of site-specific interventions across Europe, Asia and America linked by the theme of Utopian literature and thought. Documented on video, photographic stills and text. P_A_U_S_E, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea and BüroFriedrich, Berlin; Utopia Station,

Birrell, Ross (2001) Legend: Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Birrell, Ross (2001) Envoy. 25 January 2003 to 01 March 2003

Birrell, Ross and Moraly, Ali (2017) Fugue.

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2017) Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.

Birrell, Ross and Boustany, Wissam (2025) Mural (after Mahmoud Darwish).

Birrell, Ross, Abu Amsha, Ahmed and Khader, Fouad (2025) Who's Listening?

Birrell, Ross (2022) Mariupolonaise.

Birrell, Ross, Crotch, Joanna, Watt, Hugh and MacDonald, Raymond (2017) A Beautiful Living Thing [Part 2]: Improvisation #1.

Birrell, Ross, Crotch, Joanne and Watt, Hugh (2015) A Beautiful Living Thing (2015).

Birrell, Ross and Harding, David (2006) Port Bou: 18 Fragments for Walter Benjamin.

Birrell, Ross (2001) Brave New World.

Birrell, Ross (2022) Zumwelt.

Birrell, Ross (2021) GIO audio remixes for Tide Wave Radio.

Birrell, Ross and Ramos, Filipa (2018) Animal Presences | Ross Birrell in conversation with Filipa Ramos.

Birrell, Ross (2017) Migration & the Anthropocene. The Glasgow School of Art.

Birrell, Ross (2017) Music as Model: orchestration, counterpoint and transposition​. The Glasgow School of Art.

Birrell, Ross (2015) Musical Composition and Improvisation in response to the 2014 Mackintosh Fire. The Glasgow School of Art.

Currall, Alan and Birrell, Ross (2011) ArtandResearch.org.uk. Dr. Ross Birrell and Alan Currall, Glasgow, UK.