Archive for September 2017
Picnic at Tornado Sands, Arcade East, 23rd Sept. 2017
I’m chuffed to be showing John (2016) in great company as part of Picnic at Tornado Sands, Arcade East, London, opening a week today. Curated by Caroline Stevenson, I’m showing alongside Katy Dove, which is a particular honour. I even got to curate in a couple of tunes: Adagio un poco mosso from Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5…
Read MorePye Corner Audio: Stasis
I’m aye late to the audio party, but this is fantastic (and only a year old). Not sludgy or maudlin, Stasis is my current favourite to wiggle to. Less ‘creeping dread’ and more ‘dreamy disco with an otherworldly twist’ (thank you Holly Dicker). Buy it here. Listen to it here.
Read MoreOresteia: This Restless House @ the Citz
Now this is more like it. Four and a half hours of angst and bloody violence. Some of row B didn’t know where to look. Utterly jaw-dropping, kinda unbelievable was the energy of this thing. Actors must be off their trollies at times, it seems impossible to climb down from this level of commitment and…
Read MoreYerma
This Young Vic production, directed by Simon Stone, had been getting raves so I popped along to a local live screening. It’s impossible to not be wowed by Billie Piper’s Her, and the staging is impressive and yet… the contemporary dialogue is just too predictable. I wonder if Federico García Lorca’s original power is lost in…
Read MoreSex Symbols in Sandwich Signs – Stephen Sutcliffe
This is the Sutcliffe show you’ve been waiting for. Get to it… “Sex Symbols in Sandwich Signs takes its title from a damming review of David Storey’s novel ‘Radcliffe’, which was critical of all the qualities Sutcliffe admires, namely its bleak, alienating narrative and ‘garrulous’ characters. The exhibition pulls at the seams of identity, expanding…
Read MoreNudes Never Wear Glasses – Kate Davis
And still in Edinburgh, Stills are showing Kate’s new work, alongside her video Charity. Get along to see the show and read the accompanying text by Lauren Dyer Amazeen… more on it all here.
Read MoreJac Leirner – Add It Up
Popped in to the Fruitmarket to see this (superbly installed I should add) show. Upstairs was more interesting than down – smoking allowed. More on the show here.
Read MoreCarradale and the Mull of Kintyre
…ohmistrollininfromtheseamadesire… Off on a road trip with S to track down the (eventual) home of Naomi Mitchison. Denied access to Carradale House, we had to make do with a caravan park owner bored of folk asking, two grumpy dogs and a decent cat. Emergency bird book bought in Campbelltown added fact to speculation, Saddell Abbey…
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