Diane Arbus/Chicks on Speed/Arabicity/July must-sees
Here’s another round up of stories written in the past week for Culture24: Preview: Diane Arbus – Artist Rooms, Nottingham Contemporary Preview: Chicks on Speed – Don’t Art, Fashion, Music, Dundee...
View ArticleOliver Beer, Deep and Meaningful (2009)
Three locations are evoked by the film Deep and Meaningful by Oliver Beer: the sewer in which the original choral performance was filmed; the type of church where you might expect to hear such a...
View ArticleArtist's Statement: Oliver Beer on Deep and Meaningful
Here’s the first of a series of new features in which artists talk about their own work. This is what Oliver Beer had to say about his film Deep and Meaningful: “For some time I had been quite...
View ArticleLiverpool Biennial/Manchester Weekender
Two long-ish previews written this week for Culture24 and I’m looking forward to both: Preview: Liverpool Biennial 2010 Preview: Manchester Weekender 2010
View ArticleKaffe Matthews, ‘You might come out of the water every time singing’ (2012)
(c) Kaffe Matthews. Courtesy the Bluecoat, Liverpool “Okay, we’re 30m underwater on a ley line and we’re heading for some squid,” or words to that effect. Such is my greeting from artist Kaffe...
View ArticleTrainofthoughts @ The Horse Hospital
You might think it’s a first world problem or a high class issue, but just how does a human being get through a seven hour traffic jam? Such was the predicament of Micheál O’Connell, aka Mocksim,...
View Articlecirca69, What was wood will be glass (2012)
This is not a simple work but it is easy to enjoy. It is easy to enjoy if your idea of fun is lying back in bed listening to breakbeats and watching a movie on the ceiling. The footage shows scrambled...
View ArticleRagnar Kjartansson, The Visitors (2012)
Hard not to like an artist who is unafraid to quote his dad in an interview (as you can see Kjartansson does in the footage above): “It’s sad and beautiful to be a human being”. There’s also an...
View ArticleJohanna Billing, Pulheim Jam Session (2015)
To be fair, all years have some groundbreaking music to recommend them. But 1975 was a good year for both jazz and urban planning in Germany. Who knew the two could go together? In Köln, Keith Jarrett...
View ArticleMark Leckey, Affect Bridge Age Regression (2017)
In hypnotherapy, an affect bridge is a way of linking feelings in the present with feelings in the past. But if an affect bridge were a bridge in real life what form would it take? Mark Leckey has...
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