New Artist Focus: Lucy Reynolds on Manon de Boer
Watching Sylvia Kristel slowly smoke a cigarette, I think of how little the Dutch actress and model has changed since the erotic films for which
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Watching Sylvia Kristel slowly smoke a cigarette, I think of how little the Dutch actress and model has changed since the erotic films for which
I imagine that a collection of Evan Ifekoya’s films, stumbled upon in an archive for the first time, will be akin to an offering. Perhaps
Caveat: This text was begun during lockdown during the COVD 19 pandemic. This text was continued during the BLM protests initially in the United States
Aura Satz explores voice and language through video, sound, installation and performance. Grounded in the psychoacoustic experience of the perceptual field, she approaches sonic form
I still dream about the shade of yellow in P. Staff’s On Venus, the yellow of radioactive piss, corrosive light, the color of jaundice, as
The visual archival material produced as part of various European colonial projects is not absent from the collective imagination of today. While we do not
“One of the great difficulties facing anyone who attempts to unravel the problems of the ancient world is that of names. The deities of antiquity
In her essay, “This Word ‘Art’”, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa writes of the excitement she felt on first realising that “language could be a means to hold
In 1945, French filmmaker and underwater aficionado Jean Painlevé had an optimistic vision for the future of cinema. “Soon the cinema will die. Its grandchildren
Perhaps the realisation that Blackness is a necessarily multi-accentual sign provides a means to escape either-or-ism. Blackness evolves in fractal patterns. What we can usefully
In the trio of films shown as part of his solo exhibition at LUX in 2019, Morgan Quaintance trained his mind on the term hysteresis,
In Sarah Turner’s Public House (2016) a chanted invocation rings out “vodka and lime, port and lemon”. This looped, inadvertent poetry is heavy with history,
The public-private relation, its history within feminist politics and its expanded function beyond the 1970s moment with which it has become synonymous, is prodded and
The stories circulate in many families, especially those with some connection to wildness, edges, ancient lonely places. You may have your own, but here is
This written exchange is a substitute for a Q&A what could not take place when I was prevented from attending Sophio Medoidze’s screening at Peckhamplex
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