Things I am involved with
Matter Matters – 2nd Nov. The Millom Palladium from 6.30pm
I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating with Mark Vernon on a new video work, The Man Who Fell to Millom (AKA Disaggregated Industries), commissioned by the Moving Mountains Festival. It’s screening in an installation alongside sculptural work by Irene Logan and a choral piece by Kris Wilkinson Hughes at The Millom Palladium on 2nd Nov.…
Read Morenou is a semi-finalist at the Australian Independent Film Festival 2018
Smashing to find that the AIFF has had its interest piqued by nou (2018), but can I get to Brisbane based on this, relatively flimsy, excuse..? no.
Read MoreLast chance to see – An Introduction at The Pharmacy Sat. 6th Oct. 11-3pm
Make sure you get along to a special opening of An Introduction – our group exhibition of work by students, alumni and staff of Fine Art, UoC Institute of the Arts. Thanks to the curators of The Pharmacy, the space will be open from 11-3pm on Saturday 6th Oct. 2018. By popular demand after a…
Read MoreIntroducing… Blade Runner at Borderlines Book Festival, Carlisle
I’ll be introducing a screening of Blade Runner (Director’s Cut, 2007) at Borderlines Book Festival on Friday. Now as you know, I’m no film theorist, so I’ll be talking about the film’s relationship to PKD’s Do Andoids Dream of Electric Sheep, production gossip and why Blade Runner is great fun to play with. And if…
Read Morenou Screening at The 16th edition of International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris
Delighted to be screening nou in Paris in a couple of weeks time. It’s the 16th Edition of the International Festival Signes de Nuit, the very first festival to screen Peter, way back in the yesteryear of 2014, so it’s particularly special that nou, Peter‘s sequel, will be seen in this context. The festival runs…
Read Morenou screening at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, NY
nou, will be making its North American Premiere at The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival in at The Producer’s Club, New York, on Saturday 6th Oct. Loads of interesting performances going on, including ‘THE PSYCHEDELIC MAESTRO’, Simon Boswell playing at the Mercury Lounge. A huge thank you to Dan Abella, Jon Stevens and the team…
Read MoreThey Are the We of Me (2005)
Just found this link to an archive of GoMA, and my solo exhibition of 2005, They Are the We of Me. Laurie Figgis‘ essay and Sarah Smith‘s review are both excellent, so thank you to those two. A work in this show (a wee oil painting, long since given away) became the song The Why,…
Read MoreAlchemy: The Curios Society @ The Whitechapel
I was highly excited to be in the mix and contributing a text/talk for Alchemy: The Curios Society, alongside the amazing duo of Kate Briggs and Robert Williams. All connected to Mark Dion’s Theatre of the Natural World show at the Whitechapel… And then the snow arrived and I was trapped in the Greggs on Glasgow’s Gordon…
Read Morenou (2018)
As you may have gathered, Peter (2014) has a partner and an opposite. Here’s a link to a 2 minute clip of my new video, nou (2018): nou clip. nou (18 mins, 2018) – Inspired by Scottish socialist writer Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman, nou is a tale of space travel, hypnosis and transformation…
Read Morewww.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com
Thanks to Trish de Vries, 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…
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