Playlist: Rocket Recordings
Joshua Potts extols the virtues of a record label appealing to the outer limits of psychedelia… Rocket Recordings, by its very nature, invigorates one of the most mutable angles to great music without succumbing...
Culture Diary w/c 16-03-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday –Talk: Artist as Curator 7pm @ Royal Festival Hall, London — £8 As part...
The Age Of Earthquakes: A Guide To The Extreme Present
‘Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it.’ Mike Pinnington talks to author, writer and editor Shumon Basar about his new book, The Age of Earthquakes, and why the future is...
Torque Symposium #2: An Act of Reading — Reviewed
How do we read and why? Analysing the act through a broad spectrum of media theory, philosophy, literature studies and neuroscience, Grace Harrison considers the idea of language as art form, political tool and “collective force”…...
Culture Diary w/c 09-03-2015
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK… Tuesday – Biennial Talk: Colin Muir and Dominic Willsdon 6:30pm @ Liverpool School Of Art...
“I have a sort of fear of psychedelics”: Shana Moulton At Primary
Scientific research into psychedelic drugs, the everyday miracle of flying and dollar store trinkets: Wayne Burrows talks to Brooklyn-based Californian artist Shana Moulton about the inspirations behind her “hallucinatory” performances and her recent...
Subverting Surveillance And Corporate Control: FutureEverything 2015 — Reviewed
Another year older, another year wiser? Sara Jaspan finds a troubling prognosis of digital culture at the 20th edition of FutureEverything festival… Like any milestone birthday, the 20th anniversary of FutureEverything festival seems...
The Big Interview: Johnnie Shand Kydd
As he unveils a series of candid portraits of international art figures at play in 1990s Greece — including Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Grayson Perry – we speak to Johnnie Shand Kydd about responsible image making,...
Artist of the Month: Malik Thomas
The devil is in the detail: our new Artist of the Month is as skilled at intricate architectural drawing as he is at sensitively rendered portraits. Laura Robertson catches up with the young designer at...