Things I have seen with my eyes
Oresteia: This Restless House @ the Citz
Now this is more like it. Four and a half hours of angst and bloody violence. Some of row B didn’t know where to look. Utterly jaw-dropping, kinda unbelievable was the energy of this thing. Actors must be off their trollies at times, it seems impossible to climb down from this level of commitment and…
Read MoreYerma
This Young Vic production, directed by Simon Stone, had been getting raves so I popped along to a local live screening. It’s impossible to not be wowed by Billie Piper’s Her, and the staging is impressive and yet… the contemporary dialogue is just too predictable. I wonder if Federico García Lorca’s original power is lost in…
Read MoreJac Leirner – Add It Up
Popped in to the Fruitmarket to see this (superbly installed I should add) show. Upstairs was more interesting than down – smoking allowed. More on the show here.
Read MoreCarradale and the Mull of Kintyre
…ohmistrollininfromtheseamadesire… Off on a road trip with S to track down the (eventual) home of Naomi Mitchison. Denied access to Carradale House, we had to make do with a caravan park owner bored of folk asking, two grumpy dogs and a decent cat. Emergency bird book bought in Campbelltown added fact to speculation, Saddell Abbey…
Read MorePeggy Awesh
An email has told me that at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival this year, this will be happening: ‘New York-based artist Peggy Ahwesh‘s first major presentation in the UK will include an exhibition and three screenings devoted to her vast span of work from the 1980s to the present. In a career that began with Pittsburgh punk and working on…
Read Moreimomus
Here are various Momus links, mostly sleeping… imomus Click Opera Early LPs to listen to and sigh are here.
Read MoreSpiders vs. Bee
Watch Spiders vs. Bee. No one dies.
Read MoreHome (2009)
Here’s a link to Home, a 2009 BBC TV version of Ballard’s The Enormous Space, with Antony Sher. Just not quite (Wheatley’s) High-Rise enough for me. Budgets, one imagines. But why aren’t the Beeb and/or Ch4 not making a Ballard-a-yr? It’s our cultural heritage init? We need a Ballard manufacturing company equivalent to Merchant Ivory.…
Read MoreInto the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction
Popped into the Barbican (a beautiful Ballardian thing if there ever was) on Friday for Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction. Really, I went to see Terence Broad’s autoencoded version of Blade Runner (a fascinating formal exercise – watch a clip of it here), but there were other treats too – a suit that once…
Read MoreI Love Dick on the telly
And I can’t be the only one. Lots to love in Jill Soloway’s TV version of Kraus’ novel. Excruciating in its accuracy of artists and desire. Hilarious of course. Some episodes directed by Andrea Arnold! Local fact: Ciara Philips has been in a lift with K. Bacon.
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