Things I have seen with my eyes
Pieces of You Are Here – Lorna Macintyre at DCA
I was lucky enough to get along to Lorna’s opening at DCA last weekend and had a tip-top lunch with some long term favs to boot – thank you Lorna, Val and all at DCA. Pieces of You Are Here is delicate, detailed and full of beautiful surprises. An emotional thing for me – which…
Read MoreMargaret Salmon at DCA
Margaret Salmon’s show at DCA is dealing with things my work has skirted around at times, but while I’ve come (ahem) at notions of love and intimacy by implying that the screen itself is both a barrier and a conduit of desire and touch, a semi-permeable membrane, a bad condom, Salmon plunges us right into…
Read MoreNigel Kneale
Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me down a Nigel Kneale route. Here’s a link to The Stone Tape (1972) – everyone raves but it’s too overwrought for me, and I like a bit of Bronte, as you know. Here’s a link…
Read MorePamela Doove, amongst others
Always a risk to go see telly live but The League of Gentlemen was pretty perfect. Pamela Doove’s audition Review of show on The Guardian here.
Read MoreDylan Moran in Edinburgh
He has actual jokes, which is sort of confusing now, though they are good jokes. And he has stopped drinking and obviously, we should be supportive of such decisions. And yet, and yet… Maybe I went to see Bernard Black and saw Dylan Moran. Must happen a lot. I mean, that must be a huge…
Read MoreTacita Dean @ the Fruitmarket
Great to see/hear Foley Artist at Dean’s show The Woman with the Red Hat when in Edinburgh the other week. But a poorly designed itinerary meant that I didn’t get to see Event for a Stage, so I’m not really able to comment on the show as a whole. Super sharp install of course, as ever (!)…
Read MoreWhat I’ve been looking at of late…
Langham Research Centre – Muffled Cyphers (2014)
Thanks to CM’s continuing Support and Development Programme Dedicated to My Ears & to a Lesser Extent My Eyes (CM’s SDPDMYLEME, in its second year and still without Creative Scotland core funding like so many of our essential institutions making an impact on the ground), I’m watching, then listening to, then watching Langham Research Centre‘s…
Read MoreRaw (2017)
Aaahhh, cannibalism. Who doesn’t rate it as the most reasonable alternative to veganism? As long as it’s amongst friends. An old chum once observed that, if in an ‘Alive’ situation, I’d be tucking into the frozen dead before the airplane ready-meals had run out. Maybe that’s why I enjoyed Julia Ducournau’s Raw then. More a coming…
Read MoreAnnihilation – Alex Garland – 2018
Annihilation is a far less anaemic film than Ex Machina and the casting’s perfect. The Thing, Stalker, The Crystal World each get a nod and there’s a very, very frightening bear. Lucky I caught it before I rainbow-ed my own current work in progress…
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