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Pitch: Thames Symphony
Thames Symphony by Nicolas D. Sampson is a literary fiction novel with elements of London-focused psychogeography. On the one hand, it’s an immersive meditation –...
Death by Fox, Cow or River? Suburbanite in the Yorkshire Countryside
Who’s there? From my house’s mustardy Picasso face, I peer sleepily in the morning through one of its offset eyes. I’m trying to motivate myself...
In Conversation with Arturo RodrÃguez
Being in front of a volcanic eruption, from the perspective of someone who hasn’t been there, might seem like standing on an alien planet. But,...
Under Your Flaming Shirt
You too might have done this. No, you, of all people, my friend, must have. I say that not just because I relish the security...
Tavares Strachan: There is a Light Somewhere
Tavares Strachan’s There is a Light Somewhere show at the Hayward finished at the end of September. It was a stunning show exhibiting the Bahamian’s...
Silk Roads: British Museum
This magnificent exhibition celebrates and expands the concept of the ‘Silk Road’. The derivation of the Silk Road began in the 18th century reflecting on...
Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit
This exhaustive survey of Mike Kelley (1954-2021) is frightening, intriguing, loud, funny and very American. It’s packed with his sculptures, videos, models, photographs, and multi-disciplinary...
Hew Locke: what have we here?
‘This is like walking round my head, there is no direct route, choose your own route’, says Hew Locke after two years of collaboration, delving...
Touristed
“Professor Wen Ming, Professor Wen Ming!” He looked back, the key to his office door pausing mid-rotation. Lin, the department secretary, waved at him from...
I Walk in the Dark Because the British AI Lady Told Me So
The bug-eyed black goldfish, Sukoshi (which means “little-bit” in Japanese) wiggles his pretty lacy tail goodbye as I sneak out the front door of my...
Smouldering
Zain squinted his eyes. The temperature was in the high nineties. The sky was clear but the air felt humid. He was short of breath,...
Edinburgh
Edinburgh feels like a moody melancholic gentleman filled with more talent than he can use. And when the sun shines, you feel like the only...
My Shadows and I
My sculptural and digital images are a reflection of my past and present, projecting my life stories across a range of urbanscapes. I call them...
Nights in the Suburb
Two years ago I moved to a new community in a very remote suburb, which blends in with the surrounding rural areas forming a unique...
L.A. Cinemas: The City’s Real Houses of Worship
You’re here, and it’s a party but you feel like you’re stepping into a cathedral, and the crowded bar glows like an altar. L.A. worships...
A Perpetual Chameleon Dance
The Tate Modern, the National Portrait Gallery, the Natural History Museum, the fabulous Victoria and Albert… all of them fabulous, and within walking distance. But...
Philadelphia: A Ghazal
I never noticed a sound in my childhood room in Philadelphia, not the horn-blaring, teenage screaming, razzle-dazzle nighttime streets of Philadelphia. I slept deeply in...
The Hungarian Vegetarian
I’m not sure if my father was joking when he told me over the phone that my grandmother would be turning in her grave if...
In Search of a Lost Japantown
Welcome to Tacoma, Washington, USA, my adopted hometown. Tacoma is the third-largest city in Washington State, after our “big sister” city that gets all the...
Srinagar: Occupation by Day & Night
I arrive on a domestic flight from Delhi to Srinagar during Ramadan in 2018, registering as a foreigner three times, palms sweating and grateful that...
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