Abandon Art All Ye Who Enter Here
The Stuckists are organising their annual anti-Turner Prize demo today. Artist and Stuckist spokeswoman Jasmine Maddock (pictured above) reviews this year’s contenders: Angela de la Cruz This is the worst exhibit. Her work looks like the rubbish in a skip outside an art school. It’s the kind of thing a retarded bulldog would produce in […]
Semina’s Dark Object
I chose Žižek as the central character’s object of desire because I wanted it to be an unhealthy obsession. the way Žižek confronts pathology made him fascinating to develop as a character. He’s a collision of ideas and embodiment, in that he produces meaning in his writing and the meanings are also manifest in his body as a site of desire and drive and trauma. I wanted it to be implicit to my writing that a split between the object and theorising is of course a false dichotomy because it’s not possible to pretend that theory is not material, it emerges from the body and has to manifest itself in some way.
Richard Marshall interviews Katrina Palmer.
Not to be Expected
The essays and poems collected here were contributed by several British writers, including such figures as Iain Sinclair and Lavinia Greenlaw. The book is published by innovative agency Artevents, and it is to their credit that there is not a single disappointment among the eleven pieces they commissioned. The main theme is the authors’ relationship with places that have a deeply personal significance to them — the relationship that, put into a wider context, illuminates the sentiments many of us experience towards our surroundings, if not always fully consciously. Whether or not you are familiar with the locations mentioned in the book, the writing is so vivid you are bound to feel a certain affinity with at least some of them.
Anna Aslanyan reviews Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings.