Cleopatra Created an Issue
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT with CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
This video clip emphasises the often-sobering repetitiveness of email correspondence with public offices.
Cecilia Vicuña at the Tate Modern
ADRIANA SUÁREZ DELUCCHI
My visit to Cecilia Vicuña’s exhibition Brain Forest Quipu at the Tate Modern was an immersive experience. Although situated in the open plan space of the Turbine Hall, I was pulled into a far more intimate and inward place.
Grenfell: System Failure at the Marylebone Theatre
IGOR ROGELJA
Who is to blame when the root cause of a tragedy lies in multiple shortcomings? The latest dramatisation of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry raises troubling questions …
To Be Heard As Complaining Is Not To Be Heard. Part II
WILL DAMARJIAN If these walls could talk they would tell you everything I cannot say, They would groan and protest under the strain, Unlike me, these walls …
To Be Heard As Complaining Is Not To Be Heard. Part I
WILL DAMARJIAN with EMILY BAKER People can complain, but are they heard? People can raise their voices in anger, but can they truly disrupt institutional procedures which neutralise dissent?
Van Dyck and English Portraiture
MARTHE LISSON
In his Anecdotes of Painting in England, published in 1762, Horace Walpole confessed that his native country ‘has very rarely given birth to a genius in [painting].
Shapes of Complaint
SIMON FARID
A series of visual accounts showing four encounters with complaints I had in Spring/Summer 2022 through working at a major art gallery and as a resident artist at the Institute of Advanced Studies.
How Complaints Can Stall
VICKI BAARS
Complaining can be understood as something very broadly defined, sharing your unease with something, or very specifically defined, entering into a formal ‘complaints’ process.
Dismantling Gendered Hostilities in Higher Education
LO MARSHALL
When invited to contribute a piece on hostile environments in higher education, my mind immediately drifted to a scene in the film A Fantastic Woman.
William Kentridge at the Royal Academy of Arts
MARTHE LISSON
Despite the instruction at the entrance to the exhibition – Let the Drama Begin at the End – we start at the beginning of William Kentridge’s artistic career. In the 1980s, while acting and directing …
Unlearning Ableism
CLEOPATRA GLITHERO
I am not good at being late. This feels like a strange thing to say as a person who is about to enter her sixth year of a normally three-year undergraduate degree in the hopes of graduating for the first time aged 28. But here I am…
Off-set Centres
ALEXANDRA BAYBUTT
I paused by the purple cladded Tour Guides who were showing a small group a picture of the building from a bird’s eye view, The Cruciform, the St George’s cross design.
I Am As Brown As Brown Can Be
MATAIO AUSTIN DEAN
I am as brown as brown can be,
With the swirling riches high,
Piled tightly into my sloe bush eyes –