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www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com (2018-ongoing)
Peter & nou comes in a web version. Constantly evolving, never the same twice (though technically, it could be the same twice, it’s just highly unlikely), frustrating, annoying and verging on the incomprehensible www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com‘s domain name refers to a specific moment in time and space; a narrative used by a dentist to hypnotise a child,…
Read MoreGrinning near some cats
GoMA commissioned the always delightful Alan Dimmick to take some snaps of me. Here they are… I was going for Nick Drake with kittens, like a 1990/2020 mashup.
Read More8×6 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 vast guest list which includes Phyllida Barlow and Keith Tyson. Thanks too to fellow exhibitor Laura Yuile who organised essential paraphernalia – we last showed together at The Influencing Machine, nGbK, Berlin in 2019.…
Read MoreA 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 then Professor Robert Williams and family took me out for a pint. Now I have no idea what to do with myself… The Peter & nou Handbook: A Field Guide to a Speculative Practice (So…
Read MoreVenice Highlights…
Here’s a list of who/what I got excited about in Venice… Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz’s installation Moving Backwards at the Swiss Pavilion – swishy curtain reminiscent of 2012 work Shoplifters, Shopgirls by Sophie Macpherson and Clare Stephenson. Charlotte Prodger and Laure Prouvost for Scotland and France respectively. Also old favs Ed Atkins, Rosemarie Trockel…
Read MoreThe 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.)
Read MoreIt’s November 2019…finally!
And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are: Stephen Collin’s strip for the Guardian last week – see it here and BBC3’s The Essay 2019: The Year of Blade Runner – particularly Episode 2, Frances Morgan’s Sounds of the Future Past. And here’s a…
Read MoreCathy 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, carving out a contemplative space with tiny details, softly-made prints and works that needed my care and consideration at an empathic, human level. Difficult, beautiful ghosts. More on Cathy here. More Venice highlights to follow…
Read MoreStan Douglas in Venice
While I enjoyed Stan Douglas’ photographs of ‘speculative histories’ which play sound with a detailed, rich and staged kind of realism, his new film Doppelgänger could have been made to order for me. Not only is it a story of an accidental doubling (or splitting maybe) of a black female astronaut set in a series hyper-real…
Read MoreThe BR2049 – Baseline Test
I wish this was in the shops now… Until then, you can achieve a similar effect by asking a friend to shout Nabokov at you through the door of an airport toilet.
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