FOMO#3

Eye Eye, a gif of mine will be part of FOMO: a night that brings together electronic music, short film and performance art. Cheers Erika and FOMOs. FOMO#3, The Dancehall at the Rum Shack, Glasgow, 25th November 2016.

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AMIF 2016 – evening session…

Managed to get to Tramers in time for the last three events of the Sarah Tripp curated Saturday bit of the Artist Moving Image Festival yesterday. So annoyed to have missed favourite Kate Briggs‘ performance earlier. Aniara Omann‘s performance (by John Nicol) took us back to teenage bedrooms, plaintive singing along… Catalogue by Holly Antrum…

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Ali Smith on Pauline Botty

This sharp wee piece on Botty is a good read (thank you Rodge). Plus a link to Adam Curtis’ blog post on her too. Though I’m in a bit of a mood with Curtis this week – I require some optimism in these dark days… Seeing Mark Cousins in the park today helped a bit.

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They Live

It had been years, and my excuse was the dissemination of Carpenter paranoia to the Fine Art students of the University of Cumbria Institute of Arts (in a rare mention here), so we watched They Live. It is virtually perfect. It’s not The Thing, but it’s close. More influential than you remember/was at the time you last…

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