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David Barnes on David Cameron: Artist of the Avant-Garde

By - David Barnes
Posted on November, 17, 2009November, 17, 2009

Hearing David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative Party conference, I felt the urge to liberate the avant-garde, existentialist poem that lay behind the surface, a hidden subtext: I want to get straight To the point. We all know What I want to talk about. Don’t get me wrong, I’m ready for that But I tell

Poppycock

By - David
Posted on November, 9, 2009

The tale is told of a propaganda film where Stalin, wandering along a country lane enjoying the sunshine, comes across a peasant with a broken down tractor. Bizarrely he rolls up his sleeves, inspects the engine and soon it is up and running again. The intention of the propagandist is clear but, as Zizek has

Balka’s Black Box, Versions 1 and 2: Julie Rafalski

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on October, 28, 2009October, 28, 2009

Recently I read about the latest commission for Tate’s Turbine Hall, an installation by Miroslaw Balka. Entitled ‘How It Is’, after a prose work by Samuel Beckett, the piece was described by one critic as “a darkness you struggle to measure, or rather a darkness that measures you.” Through the secondary sources of online photographs

an der ecke: by Eddie Farrell

By - Eddie
Posted on October, 12, 2009October, 12, 2009

It has been a month of corners. I suppose it began with looking down the Landwehrkanal from the corner of Luetzowufer and Klingelhoefer Strasse and realising for the first time just how close the Bauhaus Archive building is to to Potsdammer Platz. Potsdammer Platz, during the inter-war years was the busiest crossroads in Europe. However

How I Came to Live in a Book: Julie Rafalski

By - Julie Rafalski
Posted on October, 7, 2009

After recently coming across Novalis’ statement that the true reader must be an extension of the author, I began thinking about how readers become the final “producers” of the “screenplay” they’re reading and more specifically, about how the settings in novels and stories are constructed in the reader’s mind. While reading the first volume of

Keeping the Devil Down in the Hole: by David Barnes

By - David Barnes
Posted on September, 22, 2009September, 22, 2009

‘If you walk with Jesus he’s going to save your soul. You gotta keep the devil Way down in the hole’. As the whole of the chattering classes emerges bereft from the last series of the American police drama The Wire (screened on BBC2 years after the original series ran in the States), it’s worth

Oslo supplemental: The Cheap Suitcase Rally

By - David
Posted on September, 21, 2009September, 21, 2009

We bought a cheap suitcase to wheel some of our bulkier tools to Oslo in, the cheapest we could find at a mere £23! However, the wheels broke 4 mins after leaving our front door. The number of breakages in this single trip was really quite amazing: Wheels break immediately and eventually disappear completely on

InterInterInter In Oslo Review

By - David
Posted on September, 17, 2009

We had a good show in the Ultima festival, many moments like Ishiguro’s ‘the Unconsoled’ happen at these festivals, like walking in circles with some composers looking for a restaurant that happens to be below the festival office when we find one, running into a torch-lit park and into a castle then ascending a turret

Brueke die Brig part II by Eddie Farrell

By - Eddie
Posted on September, 6, 2009

20 minutes later I’m off the train and breathing in the clear air of Kirkcaldy. Years ago the place stank of Linoleum, the weird thing was that the whole of Britain seemed to know about it; at Leeds City Station in 1980, I was having my ticket checked by an elderly rail employee; he looked

H-hC poster now in USA through Asthmatic Kitty

By - David
Posted on September, 3, 2009September, 3, 2009

June last year many of you will remember the show we did with Half-handed Cloud in the Foundry, where the basement was adapted to be a giant record player. The poster we released at that show has followed us ever since – at dinner with friends and at parties we are occassionally greeted by one of