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IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UFO PHENOMENONA
Thanks to Prof. Robert Williams and Bryan McGovern Willson, I introduced a screening of my films nou and The Man…
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Class Matters
Shown as part of Class Matters (2-21 May 2024, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art), this is a kind of…
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How Many Electric Sheep? Yet Another Adaptation of Blade Runner (v2024)
Delighted to deliver this paper at Transitions – the 2024 SFRA conference at the University of Taru, Estonia (7-11 May…
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Shit Hair (2024)
Made for Queer Materialities Live! at GSA, March 2024, this wee packet of dubious origin that you picked up off…
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The Man Who Fell to Millom Jellyfish
Here’s a link to a smashing wee reel showing my favourite bit of my film The Man Who Fell to…
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Drew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell
A solo show of new work at Patricia Fleming Gallery 3 November – 16 December 2023. Private View: Thu, 2…
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Fiction Machines IV
Excited to be contributing to Fiction Machines IV symposium in at Bath School of Art, Film & Media on 20th…
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Feminist Histories of the Future…
…happened in the past. Clearly updating this site is not a priority. I’d like (?) to tell you that’s because…
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Thinking of Spells…
… I remembered Salem. Here he is. This is what’s informing practice. I am fine with this.
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How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’
LOVED Paul Becker’s How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’. Feels so close to truth that early on you might worry…
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The Horror Show: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain
Off south at the end of 2022 for this pop cultural round-up at Somerset House. Curated into Monster, Ghost and…
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Fuseli’s Bums ‘n’ Dos
Alternative title: Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at The Courtauld. Many of these drawings were in a…
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Tai Shani @ Gathering
Loved the pastel witchy vibe at Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels, Tai Shani’s solo show…
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Murky Waters & Endless/Belly Film Programmes are now online
SALT (Art Walk Porty) has finished, but the two curated film programmes are now online. Watch them here. Murky Waters…
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red gym in Berlin
Wish I was getting along to see this show, crammed with favs… You should go. The exhibition ‘red gym’ brings…
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Sold Out – Murky Waters film screening
Today at 8.30pm the Murky Waters film screening is sold out. The Man Who Fell to Millom can be viewed…
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Art-o-rama Marseille Aug. 25-28 – The Immaterial Salon 2022 is live…
That never-ending, ever-evolving and increasingly ouroborosian www.rabbiticottontoothcottonrabbit.com lies behind a great new piece of writing by curator Francesca Zappia. It’s…
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SALT 1-11 Sept. 2022 – Programme now live
Here’s the latest on SALT, ART WALK PORTY’s 2022 programme in which The Man Who Fell to Millom plays a…
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The Immaterial Salon
Thanks to curator Francesca Zappia (one-third of C-E-A – French Association of Curators), rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit is part of The Immaterial Salon,…
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Murky Waters
Delighted to report that The Man Who Fell to Millom is screening as part of Art Walk Project’s Murky Waters…
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Past Forward
Working with Francesca Zappia for ART-O-RAMA and discussing digital domains as spaces for artworks to occupy or to become, I…
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House of Self-Indulgence
Your go-to-hole for all things Trash. Gaudy. Wet. House of Self-Indulgence
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Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto
The end bit of the Popbitch newsletter is stuffed with excellence this week. After you’ve finished pointing in pointerpointer.com, watch…
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Pointerpointer.com
A website that points to your pointer. I wish I had made this https://pointerpointer.com/
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Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
The Man Who Fell to Millom (2018) is part of Gothic Nature Journal Issue III. Download it here. Huge thanks…
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Detective Chief Inspector Jane Topping
Always interested in the interests of other Jane Toppings…
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Kinky Kats – 70s leather porn in the studio
Inspired and encouraged by Cosey, I’ve dug out my copy of Kinky Kats, a leather and PVC fetish magazine published…
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Leather in the Studio
This week I’m faffing around with some leather…
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Rock-themed readin’
I’m loving Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Art Sex Music (thank you CS) & Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of…
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Seen and Not Seen at the CCA
Loved this two-hander by Alex Hetherington and Scott Caruth at the CCA last week. Here’s the blurb pinched from the…
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Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations
Reviews of Vintage Science Fiction (1950s to mid-1980s) – a blog by ‘Joachim Boaz’. Books reviewed from (often) the trashier…
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Dirty Screens, still filthy
These may not be recent, but they are great. They’re all unique C-type prints at 32 inch TV dimensions (47…
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Michael Clark, Cosmic Dancer
‘Are you a fucking dancer or a fucking chancer, son?‘ (Factory foreman to a young engineer & Ziggy lookalike, Weir…
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House of Embers – Michelle Hannah @ GoMA
Michelle Hannah’s brilliant installation was on for 2 days only at GoMA last week. Filling the oval and galleries 2…
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Amsterdam 2007-08
In a clean up of an old hard drive I found these images of work I made when I was…
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Grinning near some cats
GoMA commissioned the always delightful Alan Dimmick to take some snaps of me. Here they are… I was going for…
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8×6 Launch of Anderson Gallery, Carpenter’s Wharf
Thanks to Alexander James Pollard for inviting me to exhibit at the launch of Anderson Gallery, Carpenter’s Wharf, London alongside…
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A Thing What I Wrote (2020)
Delivered to the University of Cumbria Research Office, Lancaster in a suitcase at 3.30pm on Thursday 27th February 2020. Thankfully…
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Venice Highlights…
Here’s a list of who/what I got excited about in Venice… Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s installation Moving Backwards at…
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The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin
Alert – Arwen Curry’s doc on Ursula is on BBC4 and then iplayer at 22.00 this Sunday (17th Nov.)
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It’s November 2019…finally!
And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are:…
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Cathy Wilkes in Venice
Of course I’m biased, but Cathy’s show felt like an incredibly important part of the experience of this year’s biennale,…
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Stan Douglas in Venice
While I enjoyed Stan Douglas’ photographs of ‘speculative histories’ which play sound with a detailed, rich and staged kind of…
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The BR2049 – Baseline Test
I wish this was in the shops now… Until then, you can achieve a similar effect by asking a friend…
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6 Key artefacts in Blade Runner 2049
Consummate consumer (or at least, consummate oogler) of screen-used and associated product that I remain, this bonny article highlights Blade…
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The Last Bohemians
Everyone! Bend your ears around hilarious and revealing interviews with brilliant women with The Last Bohemians podcast. Pauline Black! Cosey…
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Domestic Bliss – GoMA, Glasgow
Pop into Domestic Bliss up in Gallery 4 of GoMA when you are passing. Katie Bruce’s exhibition makes the space…
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The Isle of the Dead: The Jumper
Mentioned in Ballard’s The Crystal World and strongly hinted at in Nabokov’s Despair, I’ve always loved Arnold Böcklin’s The Isle of the…
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Hen Ogledd – Mogic
Thanks to CS, I got along to Platform to see Hen Ogledd, my new favourite band, who like eye imagery…
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What is the quiet life anyway?
Mmmmmm, it involved re-watching Stalker on DVD while reading Geoff Dyer’s Zona. If you thought Stalker was a little swift…
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EVERYBODY IN THE PLACE, AN INCOMPLETE HISTORY OF BRITAIN 1984-1992
The other week I went, in the ever-excellent company of UoC Institute of the Arts students, to see the latest…
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Eye am living – just not posting…
…I appear increasingly less interested in recording it would seem. Though I’m sure it’s just a phase, no doubt connected…
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The Influencing Machine – The Reader
Get yourself an early Christmas present and enjoy this exceptional reader which supports and develops themes of group show The…
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The Influencing Machine at nGbK, Berlin – an update
Get along to this brilliant show if you’re in Berlin… Great work, so perfectly installed – thank you to everyone…
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Sue Zuki & Amor LP launch at The Blue Arrow
Thanks to a Vernon tip off, I saw a great set by Sue Zuki. Listen to Boring af and more here,…
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Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman)
Here’s the front page of Alex Hetherington’s Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman), written in response to Peter (2014). It’s…
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She Was a Visitor – No.35 Project with Alex Hetherington
Thank you to everyone who came along to She Was a Visitor, the last No. 35 project by Alex Hetherington.…
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Artist Talk – Moving Mountains Art in the Environment – Millom Palladium
Thank you to Moving Mountains artist and curator Irene Rogen, Phil of the vital Signal Film and Media, Frank (not Santa),…
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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…
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Margaret 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…
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Jane Topping, Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman) – A No. 35 Project – Opens 12-6pm 8th Dec. 2018
Consider yourself officially invited to Newspaper, a collaboration with Alex Hetherington – the last of his innovative No.35 projects in…
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The Influencing Machine – nGbK, Berlin – a peek…
Hi you, I maybe shouldn’t share these images, which are merely mocks, but I’m too excited about the incredible work…
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Big Store (1999 or 2000)
Just found this blast from the very, VERY distant past. I made Big Store in 1999 as part of Nicola Atkinson-Griffith’s…
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Matter Matters – 2nd Nov. The Millom Palladium from 6.30pm
I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Mark Vernon on a new video work, The Man Who Fell to Millom…
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nou is a semi-finalist at the Australian Independent Film Festival 2018
Smashing to find that the AIFF has had its interest piqued by nou (2018), but can I get to Brisbane…
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Last chance to see – An Introduction at The Pharmacy Sat. 6th Oct. 11-3pm
Make sure you get along to a special opening of An Introduction – our group exhibition of work by students,…
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Introducing… Blade Runner at Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle
I’ll be introducing a screening of Blade Runner (Director’s Cut, 2007) at Borderlines Book Festival on Friday. Now as you…
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nou Screening at The 16th edition of International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
Delighted to be screening nou in Paris in a couple of weeks time. It’s the 16th Edition of the International…
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nou screening at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NY
nou, will be making its North American Premiere at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival in at The Producer’s Club,…
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Nigel Kneale
Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me…
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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Byrne/Eno
This is what I’m listening to as I work today, after Cary Wolfe‘s essay on analogue/digital has got me all…
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Pamela Doove, amongst others
Always a risk to go see telly live but The League of Gentlemen was pretty perfect. Pamela Doove’s audition Review…
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Dylan Moran in Edinburgh
He has actual jokes, which is sort of confusing now, though they are good jokes. And he has stopped drinking…
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Hymns for Robots – Noctium Theatre at Carlisle Fringe
When do I ever get to Carlisle Fringe? Never. So this year I made sure I caught Hymns for Robots,…
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Lucy Skaer and friends at Talbot Rice
Got quite overwhelmed by Lucy’s show at Talbot Rice. The jewel-like precision with material is so appealing, things appear to…
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Tacita 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…
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Harrison – the bookmark
So, this exists. You can get one at Poundland – for a limited time before the high street leaks into…
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A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner…
…for the Harp Room (2017). I’d forgotten about this film, made at Hospitalfield this time last year. Like the other…
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They Are the We of Me (2005)
Just found this link to an archive of GoMA, and my solo exhibition of 2005, They Are the We of…
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Alchemy: The Curios Society @ The Whitechapel
I was highly excited to be in the mix and contributing a text/talk for Alchemy: The Curios Society, alongside the amazing…
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nou (2018)
As you may have gathered, Peter (2014) has a partner and an opposite. Here’s a link to a 2 minute…
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www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com
Thanks to Trish de Vries, Peter & nou comes in a web version. Constantly evolving, never the same twice (though…
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Speculative Realism and Science Fiction by Brian Willems
I get it. I think so anyway. This book is currently changing my heed, into a marginally more understanding heed.,…
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Please accept my apologies, readers of blogs
I know, I know, we are all very busy people, but I’ve gone all unbloggy and we all know that…
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Things are coming together…
…but for what, and who is nou?
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Experiments In Cinema v13.6
Screen Used will be showing at this film festival on Wednesday. Go Alburquonians… Experiments In Cinema v13.6 will be held…
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Wanderers and other Nomads: Ecologies of Place brought to Mind
A new video Untitled (For Naomi and Ursula) (2018) is in this group show, curated by Patti Lean. Wanderers and…
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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…
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Raw (2017)
Aaahhh, cannibalism. Who doesn’t rate it as the most reasonable alternative to veganism? As long as it’s amongst friends. An…
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Per Aspera Ad Astra (1981)
My preferred translation of this Russian title is To the Stars, the Hard Ways*. Watch it with English subs here.…
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Annihilation – Alex Garland – 2018
Annihilation is a far less anaemic film than Ex Machina and the casting’s perfect. The Thing, Stalker, The Crystal World…
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Margaret Salmon, Mm & Sacred Paws @ The Tramway
Live score for Margaret’s Salmon’s Mm by Sacred Paws was exciting! Mm showing Berwick Speedway lads transforming from ordinary to adonis-y over…
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