Hamlet in Grand Theft Auto

The end bit of the Popbitch newsletter is stuffed with excellence this week. After you’ve finished pointing in pointerpointer.com, watch Hamlet performed inside Grand Theft Auto here.

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Empire

It’s back! It’s backwards! I’m so unobservant though, this could’ve been back since 2020. But here it is at noon on this sweltering day. Love DG. Love Empire.

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Michael Clark, Cosmic Dancer

‘Are you a fucking dancer or a fucking chancer, son?‘ (Factory foreman to a young engineer & Ziggy lookalike, Weir Pumps circa 1973, nothing to do with MC really). In the fine company of MLitt Fine Art Practice, I caught up with the reality of a catalogue which had kept me company through lockdown and…

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House of Embers – Michelle Hannah @ GoMA

Michelle Hannah’s brilliant installation was on for 2 days only at GoMA last week. Filling the oval and galleries 2 & 4 with gothic futures, dusty particles of no more art. Booming and humming and throbbing and whispering near v. covetable post-apoxy bags for life and BR-ish boots on static, disembodied manoeuvres. It should’ve been…

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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…

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Antennae – 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…

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