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React! React! React!
or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke Working in response to the work of Dr Megan…
Scream For Me Glasgow! (2024)
This collage was part of From Glasgow to Saturn‘s Issue 52 Radical Joy. Thanks for the inclusion! Developing an unhealthy…
The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
I gave the paper Who’s nou? How one story used television to summon a non-human fiction-self device for the author…
IN THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING: ENCOUNTERS WITH THE UFO PHENOMENONA
I wrote and presented the short paper On Alien Subjectivity as an introduction to a screening of my films nou…
Class Matters
Shown as part of Class Matters (2-21 May 2024, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art), this is a kind of…
How Many Electric Sheep? Yet Another Adaptation of Blade Runner (v2024)
Presented at Transitions: 2024 Annual Conference of Science Fiction Research Association in Tartu, Estonia, 10 May 2024, this paper examined…
The Weird and the Eerie
I was lucky enough to contribute a work to this super group show, curated and organised by Karla Healy and…
Shit Hair (2024)
This hand-made publication (edition of 250) was given away at the Queer Materialities Live! symposium, 14 March 2024 (GSA). The…
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…
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…
Threads…
Felt like I was 10 yrs old and getting a request played on Radio Clyde – such was my excitement…
Fiction Machines IV
Excited to be contributing to Fiction Machines IV symposium in at Bath School of Art, Film & Media on 20th…
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…
Thinking of Spells…
… I remembered Salem. Here he is. This is what’s informing practice. I am fine with this.
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…
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…
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…
Tai Shani @ Gathering
Loved the pastel witchy vibe at Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels, Tai Shani’s solo show…
Nope
Meant to mention how much I loved Jordan Peele’s Nope. A dusty Jaws with a gorgeous alien and a hilarious…
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…
red gym in Berlin
Wish I was getting along to see this show, crammed with favs… You should go. The exhibition ‘red gym’ brings…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Murky Waters
Delighted to report that The Man Who Fell to Millom is screening as part of Art Walk Project’s Murky Waters…
Past Forward
Working with Francesca Zappia for ART-O-RAMA and discussing digital domains as spaces for artworks to occupy or to become, I…
House of Self-Indulgence
Your go-to-hole for all things Trash. Gaudy. Wet. House of Self-Indulgence
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…
Pointerpointer.com
A website that points to your pointer. I wish I had made this https://pointerpointer.com/
Empire
It’s back! It’s backwards! I’m so unobservant though, this could’ve been back since 2020. But here it is at noon…
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…
Detective Chief Inspector Jane Topping
Always interested in the interests of other Jane Toppings…
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…
Leather in the Studio
This week I’m faffing around with some leather…
Rock-themed readin’
I’m loving Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Art Sex Music (thank you CS) & Denim and Leather: The Rise and Fall of…
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…
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…
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…
Michael Clark, Cosmic Dancer
‘Are you a fucking dancer or a fucking chancer, son?‘ (Factory foreman to a young engineer & Ziggy lookalike, Weir…
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…
Amsterdam 2007-08
In a clean up of an old hard drive I found these images of work I made when I was…
Grinning near some cats
GoMA commissioned the always delightful Alan Dimmick to take some snaps of me. Here they are… I was going for…
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…
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…
Venice Highlights…
Here’s a list of who/what I got excited about in Venice… Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s installation Moving Backwards at…
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.)
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:…
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,…
Stan Douglas in Venice
While I enjoyed Stan Douglas’ photographs of ‘speculative histories’ which play sound with a detailed, rich and staged kind of…
The BR2049 – Baseline Test
I wish this was in the shops now… Until then, you can achieve a similar effect by asking a friend…
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…
The Last Bohemians
Everyone! Bend your ears around hilarious and revealing interviews with brilliant women with The Last Bohemians podcast. Pauline Black! Cosey…
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…
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…
Hen Ogledd – Mogic
Thanks to CS, I got along to Platform to see Hen Ogledd, my new favourite band, who like eye imagery…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
Nigel Kneale
Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me…
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…
The Bear
Close the internet! This is my colleague R’s new housemate. I kid you not. This is The Bear. As of…
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…
Dylan Moran in Edinburgh
He has actual jokes, which is sort of confusing now, though they are good jokes. And he has stopped drinking…
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,…
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…
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…
Scraps
Oh, the thinking really came together last night… Carlsberg.
Harrison – the bookmark
So, this exists. You can get one at Poundland – for a limited time before the high street leaks into…
Immemory
I know I’ve mentioned this CD-Rom work of Marker’s from 1997 before, but not sure that I’ve ever watched this…
Cells Out
Thank you to Catherine Owen for reviving some old images of The Chateau’s Launch event in 2003, which I was…
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…
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…
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…
nou (2018)
As you may have gathered, Peter (2014) has a partner and an opposite. Here’s a link to a 2 minute…
www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com
Thanks to Trish de Vries, Peter & nou comes in a web version. Constantly evolving, never the same twice (though…
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.,…
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…
Things are coming together…
…but for what, and who is nou?
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…
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…
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…