I’ve contributed an interview with Tai Shani and a preview of Donald Locke to this new issue.
Tag: Birmingham
Alberta Whittle: We gather and dream of new congregations
The overriding concerns of Alberta Whittle (b.1980) – how care, community and growth resist experiences of anti-Blackness – are manifest … More
Julian Germain: GENERATIONS
Julian Germain’s book The Face of the Century (1999) was published to mark the turn of the millennium through portraits of 100 … More
Phyllis Christopher: Heads and Tails
Cradled in the blacked-out gallery space of Grand Union are a series of silver gelatin prints, digital prints and digitised … More
Tereza Buskova: Clipping the Church
Tereza Buskova’s practice reinterprets local customs and folkloric rituals through performance, film and photography. Many of the idiosyncratic customs that … More
Still House: Of Riders and Running Horses
Like a flock of birds, five female dancers circle, gather and glide across the tarmac of a rooftop car park. … More
Sven Bergelt: Future Worn Out New One
Birmingham has something of a reputation for the destruction of its architectural heritage. From the sites of former Victorian, Edwardian … More
Małgorzata Dawidek: Conversio
An exhibition text commissioned by Centrala, Birmingham to coincide with the opening of Conversio, a new exhibition by Małgorzata Dawidek. My text … More
Ned Pooler and André de Jong: Parralaxis
Three adjustable bathroom mirrors are mounted on to the gallery wall, casting shimmering patterns that alter according to weather conditions … More
We Like: Keith Dodds, Laurence Price and Cathy Wade
There is an accumulation of material. A layering of text, sound, image and idea. A live editing, cropping, copying, pasting … More
Anneka French 