‘In This Land’ by Zed Nelson – Photography Series on Israel
In This Land explores the mindset of contemporary Israel, investigating the psyche of a population living with, and seemingly trapped by, a collective siege mentality. The series reflects on Israel’s...
View ArticleJeremy Hutchinson – A kind of Performance Artist (but Don’t Call Him That)
“I suppose I’m a performance artist, but I fucking hate that word”, says Jeremy Hutchinson grinning. He looks stubbly and slightly cheeky as he sips his tea. “It’s the connotations of performance...
View ArticleUnseen Holocaust at the Imperial War Museum North
In the Jewish faith for eleven months after a person dies the mourner’s Kaddish is recited for them. The prayer is a sanctification of God’s name, a statement of rock solid belief spoken at a moment of...
View ArticleReich Re-writes Radiohead – Steve Reich’s Radio Rewrite Premiere
José Mourinho said ‘the world would stop’ to watch Real Madrid play Manchester United in the Champions League. At the Southbank Centre, however, life went on regardless as we witnessed the newest...
View ArticleLondon Turkish Film Festival – The Highlights & some essential Cinema
Ramis Cizer picks out his highlights of the Turkish Film Festival in London and views some crackling cinema due for imminent release… It’s not the teeth of the big bad wolf that Little Red Riding Hood...
View ArticleToo Much Night, Again: Pae White at the South London Gallery
Pae White’s installation at South London Gallery opened on the 12th of March. Prior to the exhibition opening, she led an artist talk in the Clore Studio that provided an insight into the history and...
View ArticleNathan James and his Circus of Creeps: Perverts, John Wayne and Mickey Mouse
In the deepest, darkest, shadiest corner of pop is the world of painter Nathan James. This is a world like no other: a world in which you can expect to be offered pills by a tripped out Mickey Mouse,...
View ArticleBe A Man! Group Exhibition with Claude Cahun, Alexis Hunter, Mahtab Hussain…
“The order so often heard – ‘Be a man’ – implies that it does not go without saying that manliness may not be as natural as one would think… Being a man implies a labour, an effort that does not seem...
View ArticleScreenplay – An Interview with John Parish on Film, Music & PJ Harvey
Musician and composer John Parish, best known for his work with PJ Harvey, is, on the 16th April, releasing Screenplay, an album of a selection of his film music. Feature writer, Claire Hazelton, had a...
View ArticleRyoji Ikeda’s Superposition: A Collision of Worlds
It seems that what could be construed as two artistically distinct domains are in fact more closely related and compatible than we can imagine… Ryoji Ikeda, on the 27th and 28th March, demonstrated the...
View ArticleGeoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer at Barbican’s Curve
Geoffrey Farmer’s The Surgeon and the Photographer is being shown in its completed form for the first time in the UK at the Barbican’s Curve gallery. The Curve is a unique 90-metre exhibition space...
View ArticleHands on a Hardbody – How to Win a Truck the Hard Way – Film Review
A battle of wills: a gruelling contest of endurance and sheer determination whose lone victor will finish physically and mentally exhausted, having outlasted all challengers. Defeated rivals will...
View ArticleAi Weiwei Exhibition ‘Disposition’& dramatic new work unveiled in Venice
If any of you are lucky enough to be in Venice for the 55th Biennale you will be able to visit the Ai Weiwei exhibition ‘Disposition’ a major new solo show curated by Maurizio Bortolotti. It will be...
View ArticleBedwyr Williams – Wales at the Venice Biennale –“Moles are blind and easily...
Bedwyr Williams, Wales in Venice representative at the 2013 Venice Biennale, on Colin Farrell, Comedy and Clarkes shoes. “Sorry I missed your call,” says Bedwyr Williams, picking me up from Bangor...
View ArticleRing – Brighton Festival – Sensory deprivation does strange things…
Anyone with nyctophobia (otherwise known as a fear of the dark) would not fare well in Brighton Festival’s Ring. Set in Brighton’s The Basement, with its strange warehouse-esque atmosphere and abundant...
View ArticleNico Muhly & Friends in A Scream and an Outrage at the Barbican
‘I wanna scream and shout…’ Composer, arranger, performer, social media maestro and cook Nico Muhly is a force of nature. Whilst David Lang’s claim that ‘He’s the missing link between all the kinds of...
View ArticleStand Up People – Gypsy Pop Songs From Tito’s Yugoslavia 1964-1980
This rare and fascinating compilation Stand Up People fuses Romanian pop songs with Turkish, Indian and Western influences of a bygone age. The album collates recordings from between 1964 and 1980 by...
View ArticlePunchdrunk’s The Drowned Man – Fortune Favours the Bold
A drop dead gorgeous actress in a sequined dress is sensuously running her fingers through my hair like in a Lynx commercial. “I love this look sweetie, but I’m afraid you’re going to have to cut it...
View ArticleMulatu Astatke – Sketches Of Ethiopia – Unique, playful album from African...
Ethiopian musician and conductor Mulatu Astatke takes his original combination of jazz, Latin, and traditional Ethiopian influences for the latest soundtrack to his homeland, Sketches Of Ethiopia....
View ArticleFirst Peoples Film Festival: when the voice of native peoples moves to the...
From the air you can see the endless expanses of tundra, snow, ice, stone and boreal forests of the Nunavik region. From the air, the first Inuit aviator, Johnny May, presents the greatest changes that...
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