I have been invited to talk about publications in relation to film and video work at a conference in Zurich next…
On Management
Issue 5 of the open access PARSE Journal of Valand Academy of the University of Gothenburg has just gone online…
Revisiting: Tony Oursler – The Influence Machine
In Madison Square Park in New York, and subsequently in Soho Square, the heart of London’s media world, video artist…
Revisiting: Rachel Lichtenstein – Rodinsky’s Whitechapel
Traversing London from near Euston Station to the top of Brick Lane through back alleys and quiet streets today, made me…
PARSE upcoming issues
A range of interesting issues coming up, including #5 on Management, which is almost done. Other topics include ‘speculation’ and…
How Institutions Think
Following the conference titled ‘How Institutions Think’, which took place in Arles in 2016, and which was organised by CCS…
Oslo workshop
Having spent two days in the very ‘koselig’ bookshop space of Oslo’s Cappelens Forslag (and its very intimate back room-cum…
Revisiting: Steve McQueen
I first met Steve McQueen in Amsterdam in 1996, when I was still working at De Appel in Amsterdam, and…
Public Enquiries: PARK LEK and the Scandinavian Social Turn
I am currently proofing texts for a book entitled Public Enquiries, which follows a symposium that took place in 2016. Public Enquiries is a research…
Talk Olivia Plender and launch Rise Early, Be Industrious in Glasgow
On Friday 3 February, at the Glasgow Film Theatre, Rose Street, 11 am
workshop Oslo
On 31 January and 1 February I will be contributing to and participating in a workshop about writing, editing and…
Revisiting: Luca Frei – The so-called utopia…
While talking to artist Anthony Shrag, he referenced Luca Frei’s The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg. An interpretation, unaware that…
PARSE # 5
I am currently working on proofing issue # 5 of the PARSE Journal, published by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The…
Intentions and Actions
Following the conference Social Intentions held in 2016, CCA: Glasgow will be publishing a book, entitled Forms of Action, that brings…
Conversations
Artist Anthony Shrag and I have been talking for a while about a publication. Whether that will indeed take the…