Posts by Jane Topping
React! React! React!
or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke Working in response to the work of Dr Megan Macleod and her team at the School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow, I made React! React! React! or Three Stories of Autoimmunity or Another Reason Not to Smoke, a risograph publication that imagines…
Read MoreScream 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 interest in hair (the hairy, the hairless and hair that strikes out on its own), Scream for Me Glasgow! (2024) is a tribute to the beautiful hair of the young Bruce Dickenson (Iron Maiden) and…
Read MoreThe 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 at this conference organised by London Arts-Based Research Centre at Oxford University, 24-26 May 2025. Here’s the blurb: This conference aims to convene screenwriters, performance storytellers, digital storytellers, authors, educators, practitioners, journalists, scholars, researchers, psychologists,…
Read MoreIN 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 and The Man Who Fell to Millom at the symposium In the Cloud of Unknowing: Encounters with the UFO Phenomena at Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania, USA (17-18 July 2024). This was a transdisciplinary symposium convening art…
Read MoreClass Matters
Shown as part of Class Matters (2-21 May 2024, Annex Gallery, Glasgow School of Art), this is a kind of developmental work, unsure of its place (on a wall) and more concerned with the text that supported it… Huge thanks to Deborah Jackson, James Hutchinson & Elizabeth Hodson. All teenage bedrooms are sites of cultural…
Read MoreHow 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 a double-sided flick-book titled A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (Topping, 2018), considering the work and the paper itself as adaptations and novel narrative threads which enrich and complicate the transitional cultural object…
Read MoreThe Weird and the Eerie
I was lucky enough to contribute a work to this super group show, curated and organised by Karla Healy and Luke Shand. Inspired by our mutual love of Mark Fisher. There’s a link to a bit here and here’s the PR: “The Weird and the Eerie,” is a thought-provoking visual art exhibition that explores the…
Read MoreShit Hair (2024)
This hand-made publication (edition of 250) was given away at the Queer Materialities Live! symposium, 14 March 2024 (GSA). The work is the first output of a new interdisciplinary project concerned with abject and celebratory aspects of hair and other materials which are commonly used as hair substitutes. Shit Hair seeks out lost and forgotten…
Read MoreDrew Barrymore’s Island Hotel from Hell
3 Nov – 16 Dec 2023 – Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, G5 9ER.
Read MoreThe 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 Millom when it was part of Murky Waters, Art Walk Porty back in 2022… Cheers for posting. https://www.facebook.com/artwalkporty/posts/820835072257649/
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