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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 Morewww.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 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 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 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.)
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