Posts by Jane Topping
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 CCA website: An exhibition of new work by two artists, Scott Caruth and Alex Hetherington. Both work primarily with the moving image in this exhibition, reflecting in different ways on what remains unseen, invisible or…
Read MoreScience 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 edges of sci-fi, with lots of great covers. Take a look here.
Read MoreDirty 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 × 77 cm) and available on Artsy here. ‘Screenshot’ tags not included!
Read MoreMichael Clark, Cosmic Dancer
‘Are you a fucking dancer or a fucking chancer, son?‘ (Factory foreman to a young engineer & Ziggy lookalike, Weir Pumps circa 1973, nothing to do with MC really). In the fine company of MLitt Fine Art Practice, I caught up with the reality of a catalogue which had kept me company through lockdown and…
Read MoreHouse 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 & 4 with gothic futures, dusty particles of no more art. Booming and humming and throbbing and whispering near v. covetable post-apoxy bags for life and BR-ish boots on static, disembodied manoeuvres. It should’ve been…
Read MoreNeMLA 53rd Annual Convention 2022
Delighted to be given the opportunity to present remotely at the Northeast Modern Language Association 53rd Annual Convention this year – my second contribution to this friendly, interdisciplinary affair. I was discussing the flick book A 35mm 208-ish Frame Version of Blade Runner (2018) in the context of literary and film adaptation. Thank you Bill…
Read MoreCommunication Measures to Bridge 4.543 Billion Years – GeoWeek at the University of Cumbria Institute of Arts
Last week I met with many heartily missed friends at UoCIoA to deliver this brief introduction to The Man Who Fell to Millom… In 2018 I was commissioned by Irene Rogan, Director of the Moving Mountains Festival (in Millom, Cumbria) to make a film about the operational Ghyll Scaur Quarry. However, after visiting the quarry…
Read MoreAmsterdam 2007-08
In a clean up of an old hard drive I found these images of work I made when I was in Amsterdam on the SAC (as was) Residency back in 2007-08. Ancient history of course, but as I ease myself back into the studio after making some changes to my working practices (farewell UoCIoA, hello…
Read MoreThe Peter & nou Handbook: A Field Guide to an SF Practice (So Far), 2021
While this text is too chunky (it’s the quality really) to be accessible from this site, feel free to take a look at it on the GSA online research depositary thing, RADAR. I think you can just jump straight in here. Some context: This text examines The Peter & nou Project, a developing body of…
Read MoreAntennae – Issue 50 Spring 2020
In this issue of Antennae sits Shooting the Messenger, an essay by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson (pp118-135). A delight to have the video Peter (2014) discussed here in this fresh context. Thank you MW. Here’s Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson’s introduction to the piece: ‘In these years, the sea and its behaviours increasingly serve as an urgent and unrelenting reminder of global…
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