I was really privileged to be invited to take part in What Next for the Arts? – an afternoon symposium which was part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival – on 12th May 2018. As I like to do whenever I get the chance nowadays, I performed the piece with accompanying film and audio.… READ MORE
This is the script for a performance lecture by Dawn Woolley and myself. The performance was intentionally disruptive and disrupted.
The film with a spoken script will be available soon…
Möbius
[TEXT] ‘[T]echnology has become the great vehicle of reification’ (Marcuse, 1964, p. 168).
[TEXT] ‘First as tragedy, then as farce’ (Marx, 1852).… READ MORE
This is my attempt to reflect upon the closure of libraries in the UK under a rainbow cloak of austerity provided by propaganda from the Arts Council England… Rough and straight off the page…
SHHH, BE QUIET!
Books.
Tattered, battered,
Drawn upon.
Pages infuriatingly missing.
Plastic armour
Protected them.… READ MORE