The Horror Show: A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain

Off south at the end of 2022 for this pop cultural round-up at Somerset House. Curated into Monster, Ghost and Witch sections by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and Claire Catterall, this was fun-packed and quite the top trumps experience for the geeky hauntologists among us. Plus it had that Radio Times cover from when Threads aired…

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Fuseli’s Bums ‘n’ Dos

Alternative title: Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism at The Courtauld. Many of these drawings were in a private collection in New Zealand and were kinda Fuseli’s homemade erotica, many made in collaboration with his wife. It’s essentially mathematically spectacular hairdos and tempting botties – so great. Here’s the ‘real’ blurb (from the…

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Tai Shani @ Gathering

Loved the pastel witchy vibe at Your Arms Outstretched Above Your Head, Coding With the Angels, Tai Shani’s solo show and first thang up at Gathering, London. I had great images of this show but then I cleaned up my phone… So go here instead. Starting Shani’s 2019 sci-fi book Our Fatal Magic now… Gathering…

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Seen and Not Seen at the CCA

Loved this two-hander by Alex Hetherington and Scott Caruth at the CCA last week. Here’s the blurb pinched from the CCA website: An exhibition of new work by two artists, Scott Caruth and Alex Hetherington. Both work primarily with the moving image in this exhibition, reflecting in different ways on what remains unseen, invisible or…

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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…

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Hen Ogledd – Mogic

Thanks to CS, I got along to Platform to see Hen Ogledd, my new favourite band, who like eye imagery as much as eye do (wink) and whose new LP Mogic is, like, totally that. I’m trying to use a lyric in my PhD write-up. Let’s see if I can squeeze it in… The tunes…

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Eye 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…

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