This piece was written in response to a brief titled 'Substantiate'. The following story is how I interpreted the theme through an exploration of the cliche as a kind of empty substantiation. Take the potion and throw it out the window. Launch it from the arm of a lonely man with a blue guitar who … Continue reading Love Story Draft #16
Alice Theobold and Atomik Architecture
The Baltic Centre, Newcastle, 11 December 2015 - 10 April 2016 On the second level of The Baltic in Newcastle, Alice Theobold’s exhibition is at first a sliver of black tucked inside a vast white wall, as though somebody has cut away at the external blankness to reveal a space which has been there all along. … Continue reading Alice Theobold and Atomik Architecture
Hold On, It’s Just Autocorrect
This piece was written for a writing workshop on 'keywords', in which we were to pick one word and write on it. I chose the word 'autocorrect'. Technology can be terrifically endearing. The most evident of such would be the famous autocorrect, with its penchant to litter our on-screen conversations with Freudian slips and sexual … Continue reading Hold On, It’s Just Autocorrect
‘The Crossing’ by Victor Cord’homme
Caravansérail, Brick Lane 7th September – 3rd October 2017 When I arrive at Caravansérail, I find that my favourite bookstore in all of London has undergone something of a transformation. Novels and magazines have made way for acrylic drawings depicting manmade structures of the seaside; lighthouse, water-tower, boat. A skeletal machine is suspended in mid-air, … Continue reading ‘The Crossing’ by Victor Cord’homme
Through the Viewing House
This piece was originally published in 'Propland: Reprogramming Television Centre', 2018 With a white ribbon of writing wrapped around its glass facade, the show home for Television Centre is encased in glass, sitting like an unopened present across from Wood Lane tube station, sunlight streaming through its walls on cloudless days. Television returns to television … Continue reading Through the Viewing House
Re-collecting Omer Fast
This was an experimental catalogue essay written on the video artist Omer Fast, attempting to replicate Fast’s exploration on the themes of memory, re-enactment and repetition through the structure and style of the writing. -Omer Fast is dead. This is a fact I discovered hidden within the first few pages of In Memory, a catalogue … Continue reading Re-collecting Omer Fast
‘There Has Never Been Anything Original’: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
This interview was originally published in ARC Magazine #21, 'Re-Issue', 2017 Much like the fictions of J.G Ballard or the reworked fairy tales of Robert Coover, the novels of Tom McCarthy are punctured with moments of carefully orchestrated traumas. One man obsessively re-enacts memories from his past, voluntarily trapped in a stuttering present. Another delights … Continue reading ‘There Has Never Been Anything Original’: An Interview with Tom McCarthy
