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- Jarman, Julien, Wittgenstein, Martians
Of all the possible mediums he could have chosen, it is somehow curious that Derek Jarman decided to become a filmmaker. He didn’t just do film, of course, but it is for his films that he is best known. Perhaps you get the feeling, when watching some of these movies, that they should have been […]
- Climbing the Anal Staircase: The Art of No Bra
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They say No Bra is all tits and wonder, but they’re wrong. There’s also a lot of cock, and even some fake mustache. This isn’t music for the masses; it’s music that makes fun of the masses - or at least that quotient of the masses that imagines it constitutes an elite.Susanne Oberbeck dreams […]
- While we’re on the subject of aliens…
I wrote this review for Think Again magazine; I thought I’d include it here because I picked up the book at the Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art show at the Barbican when I was in London. It was actually the only book on ufology that they were selling at the Barbican, which leads me to […]
- Ground Control
The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Barbican Art Gallery, London
Through May 18th, 2008
The Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art is a hilarious piss-take on the anthropological impulse that tends to taint so much contemporary curatorial practice – not to mention contemporary art.
It all started off with curators Francesco Manacorda and Lydia Yee being asked to organize a […]
- The Institute of Psychoplasmics
I’m proud to be a part of the Institute of Psychoplasmics, a group exhibition currently on (through May 26, 2008) at the Pump House Gallery in London’s Battersea Park.
The Institute of Psychoplasmics, curated by the Pil and Galia Kollectiv, is an exhibition about cultic social groupings and how they challenge the integrity of the social […]
- London April 5-6
I’ll be doing two readings in London this weekend. Saturday, April 5, I’ll be reading with Adelle Stripe of the BRUTALISTS at Foyles Bookshop at 4pm. It’s part of some short story festival. I’ll be reading my story “What the Witch Doctor Says” from the Institute of Psychoplasmics exhibition catalog (the exhibition itself opens April […]
