3:AM Top 5: Christiana Spens
Christiana Spens, author of last year’s The Wrecking Ball, has produced a very original graphic novel entitled The Socialite Manifesto: One Day in the Life of Ivana Denisovich which comes out next month. Christiana is currently listening to: 1. “Cheap + Cheerful” — The Kills “I’m sick of cheap and cheerful — I want expensive […]
Lovers of Debris — The INS at Tate Britain
With its proclamations, declarations, committees, purges, and publications the INS is following in the (ministry of silly) footsteps of Marinetti’s Futurists, Breton’s Surrealists, and Debord’s Situationist International. INS members handed out designer passes to the press along with a handout of INS history and a transcript of the declaration, everything emblazoned with the INS legend. Members wore INS nametags, lapel buttons, and, to cement the feeling of an organization, unveiled behind the speakers, the new INS crest showing a sponge (formlessness), a net of the globe, Anubis (the preincarnation of Wile E. Coyote), and the INS motto: cras ingens iterabimus aequor — “Tomorrow we shall (re)traverse the enormous space/sea.”
By Steve Finbow.