‘The House of Fame’ consists of four houses ‘convened’ by Linder: ‘The House of the Future’; ‘The House of Rest’; ‘The House of Unrest’; and ‘The Abode of Sound’. Houses within a house housed by – under the roof of – Nottingham Contemporary. Equally mysterious, perhaps, as the institutional processes of an art gallery, ‘houseread more
Month: October 2019
Postcard from Vietnam
Several days after our arrival in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) – I was travelling with my sister, brother and cousin – the Vietnamese Defence Minister, General Ngô Xuân, received US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis for closed-door talks on a $183m clean-up operation of nearby Biên Hòa airport. A little more than an hour’s driveread more
Creative Workplace Summit, A Postcard from Great Yarmouth
Earlier this year the Great Yarmouth-born filmmaker Greg King introduced me via email to a ‘video content producer’ – we’ll call this person ‘Alex’ – for the Guardian newspaper. (Greg, a former professional skateboarder, directed several influential East Anglian scene films, including Reservoir Skates, 1997-98, and Underground and Overrated, 2002, and taught Lewis ‘Chewy’ Cannon,read more
‘New Order: Art, Product, Image, 1976-1995’, Sprüth Magers Gallery London / BANK: ‘Summa’, Piper Keys London
For the so-called young British artists, 1995 was, according to the writer Michael Bracewell, curator of ‘New Order: Art, Product, Image: 1976-1995’, what 1976 had been for London punk – a mythical Year Zero. Between these zeroes, British self-image and identity – and the ascendant ‘style wars’, as Peter York called them, later brilliantly theorisedread more
Stephan Dillemuth at 3236RLS/LE BOURGEOIS, Eros House
When the French restaurant beneath Eros House in Catford was evicted following complaints of late-night raves-cum-orgies, the new tenants kept its name: Le Bourgeois. It’s an irony not lost on Stephan Dillemuth. Crummy, gleeful, serious, his installations in “Diskodekorationen: From Another Century” literally decorate a disco, or what’d been a sort of disco before theread more