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It’s November 2019…finally!
And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are: Stephen Collin’s strip for the Guardian last week – see it here and BBC3’s The Essay 2019: The Year of Blade Runner – particularly Episode 2, Frances Morgan’s Sounds of the Future Past. And here’s a…
Read MoreThe BR2049 – Baseline Test
I wish this was in the shops now… Until then, you can achieve a similar effect by asking a friend to shout Nabokov at you through the door of an airport toilet.
Read More6 Key artefacts in Blade Runner 2049
Consummate consumer (or at least, consummate oogler) of screen-used and associated product that I remain, this bonny article highlights Blade Runner 2049’s very deliberate item choices… Can’t believe I’ve not visited Film and Furniture before now. Got there via a frantic search for a vintage blanket which looked like The Shining carpet which I slept under…
Read MoreThe Last Bohemians
Everyone! Bend your ears around hilarious and revealing interviews with brilliant women with The Last Bohemians podcast. Pauline Black! Cosey Fanni Tutti! Bonnie Greer! Break-out star Molly Parkin (‘I wake up. Have sex. With myself.’)
Read MoreDomestic Bliss – GoMA, Glasgow
Pop into Domestic Bliss up in Gallery 4 of GoMA when you are passing. Katie Bruce’s exhibition makes the space seem like new. My work, based on the life of Carson McCullers and from my solo show They are the We of Me (GoMA, 2006) gets to hang out with works by Jacqueline Donachie and…
Read MoreThe Isle of the Dead: The Jumper
Mentioned in Ballard’s The Crystal World and strongly hinted at in Nabokov’s Despair, I’ve always loved Arnold Böcklin’s The Isle of the Dead. Here’s the Basil version… And now I have the jumper. I am the Isle of the Dead – a veritable picture of goth in mohair-blend by Coach. I’ve not loved an item of clothing…
Read MoreWhat is the quiet life anyway?
Mmmmmm, it involved re-watching Stalker on DVD while reading Geoff Dyer’s Zona. If you thought Stalker was a little swift at times, you know on the speedy side, then I recommend using some of your precious time in this intertextual flip-flop. I managed to stretch things out for an entire Sunday… The quite quiet life…
Read MoreEye am living – just not posting…
…I appear increasingly less interested in recording it would seem. Though I’m sure it’s just a phase, no doubt connected to a recent desire to shun devices in favour of, well, the quiet life. In a short blast of posts today, I’ll catch up by broadcasting some items of interest and others of note. Consider…
Read MoreThe Influencing Machine – The Reader
Get yourself an early Christmas present and enjoy this exceptional reader which supports and develops themes of group show The Influencing Machine (nGbK, Berlin). In fact, get yourself six copies, as images from my website are wrapping the inside covers in six different ways. I’ve seen a couple of preview copies, and it looks like…
Read MoreNewspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman)
Here’s the front page of Alex Hetherington’s Newspaper or (Memoirs of a Spacewoman), written in response to Peter (2014). It’s not a collaboration, this is all Alex, but I wrote a bit of text and choose the images. All these images by Alex Hetherington.
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