Posts by Jane Topping
NeMLA 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…
Read MoreEggs and Aliens (2018)
This text was adapted to be part of a performance that happened as part of Alchemy: The Curios Society at Whitechapel Gallery in 2018. The text was read by Fiona, the digital Scottish Female voice found in Word, slowed down as far as she goes. Prof. Robert Williams progressed the slides on Fiona’s command. Robert…
Read MoreRome
I went with fav. CS. Caravaggio, Argento and de Chirico’s flat. Other things seen and eaten.
Read MoreTransit #3 and everything crooked will become straight
Published on the occasion of TRANSIT #3 and everything crooked will become straight, Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016, curated by Transit Arts, March 2016. Including contributions from Marcus Jack, Denise Bonetti, Jane Topping, and Stephen Nelson. Black risograph print with red card cover, designed by Marcus Jack.137 x 194mm, 36pp Edition of 120Signed and numbered As I’m not going…
Read MoreF I E L D (2010)
At the invitation of Dawn Bothwell, Ciara Phillips and I made a little show at the back of a record shop in Newcastle. I had a thing about zombie hands and Ciara was just getting into wall painting.
Read MoreCoco (2004)
A two-person show with Lynn Hynd. Set up in two shop spaces in Sword Street, Glasgow and thanks to Switchspace. This is ancient history, work-wise, but a crucial moment I thought it might be worthwhile keeping in mind. All the titles are lost in time, but whirling around my head were things I still dwell…
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