Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter on television shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman.

[1] Place is associated with the Conceptual Art[2] movement and has lectured and performed at events including at the Sorbonne in Paris, London's Whitechapel Gallery, and the Andre Bely Centre for Experimental Writing in St. Petersburg, and the Getty Villa in Los Angeles.

[3] In 2014, Place exhibited her work Last Words alongside Andrea Fraser’s Tehachapi at Kings Road at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture/Schindler House.

[4] Critic Sharon Mizota, writing for the Los Angeles Times, notes the two artists "filled the Schindler House, a landmark of 20th century modernism, with nothing but sound.

[7] In a 2017 interview with Artforum, Place states: "The structure of a joke, according to Freud, is that it is a sudden discharge of repression, often sexual, often kind of obscene.

"[6] A proposed sound installation of the work in 2015 was cancelled[8] after a protest by other exhibition artists, leading to a panel on the project at Cabinet Magazine in Brooklyn,[9] and a 2017 folio in Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Critic Naomi Toth notes that Place "prefers hot items," subjects that generate unease and discomfort among audiences: "the legal defense of criminals, rape jokes, racist realist novels, the last words of death row convicts."

Toth suggests Place takes up the discourse "of the suspect, the one we’ve designated as guilty, the one we’re going to execute, the one we consent to push off-scene: the person and the narratives many of us would prefer to suppress to shore up our identity, to found our own innocence."

In 2005, Place co-founded Les Figues Press, which "publishes experimental writing and literature in translation with a focus on feminist and queer authors," in Los Angeles.

Naomi Toth, writing about Last Words for Jacket2, states the work occurs "in a context in which, the listener realizes, speaking becomes the pronunciation of one’s own death sentence.

[17] In her 2010 book The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law (Other Press), Place reflects on an experience when a court clerk asked her, "How can you live with yourself?"

[20] Statement of Facts Controversy around Place's Tragodía series began when literary critic Marjorie Perloff described the work as "a superb piece of conceptual writing," and presented a summation of the project at the 2010 Rethinking Poetics conference held at Columbia University.

Critic Steven Zultanski writes that Place, when asked to "explain the intent of her work [...] of course, refused to do so, which has partially allowed for the book’s retention of its initial provocative appeal."