Things I wish I had made
Thinking of Spells…
… I remembered Salem. Here he is. This is what’s informing practice. I am fine with this.
Read MoreHow We Made ‘The Kick Inside’
LOVED Paul Becker’s How We Made ‘The Kick Inside’. Feels so close to truth that early on you might worry Kate has been taken in vain. But it’s not in vain at all. I’m sure she’s right into this picking apart and almost becoming text about process, about making things. It’ll be on the Professional…
Read MorePointerpointer.com
A website that points to your pointer. I wish I had made this https://pointerpointer.com/
Read MoreStan Douglas in Venice
While I enjoyed Stan Douglas’ photographs of ‘speculative histories’ which play sound with a detailed, rich and staged kind of realism, his new film Doppelgänger could have been made to order for me. Not only is it a story of an accidental doubling (or splitting maybe) of a black female astronaut set in a series hyper-real…
Read MoreHen 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…
Read MoreWe Are All Completely Free – Women Artists and Surrealism, Museo Picasso, Malaga
Oh boy. It’s been weeks, simply weeks hasn’t it? Still in my brain is this incredible show that I caught between cake, anchovy and rioja at the MUSEO PICASSO in MÁLAGA. Carrington, Oppenheim, Cahun… More on the show here. Here’s the PR: ‘WE ARE COMPLETELY FREE. WOMEN ARTISTS AND SURREALISM’ 09.10.2017 Transgressive and controversial, the…
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 MoreRecital – Sarah Forrest
I like everything that Sarah makes, but Recital, which I was looking at yesterday, is unbelievably great. Recital (2016) Sarah on Vimeo
Read MorePeter in The 5th Annual Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival…update…
The full programme has been announced, and it looks fascinating… Peter screening details are: Monday, May 29, 2017, The Producers Club, THE COURTHOUSE THEATRE, 358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. Full Programme here.
Read MoreTwilight City, 1989
Made for Channel 4, Black Audio Film Collective’s Twilight City is the absolute, no question, stand-out work at the CCA’s The Sky is Falling show. Get along, get comfy and watch it all… Trailers for three other Black Audio Film Collective works here.
Read More