Field Trip #19: Fringe Film Fest
Paul Forster goes in search of a Queer Film Fest sans identity crisis, and finds it in Fringe! I had originally intended to cover the Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, which took place...
Field Trip #18: A Way In
– Shanghai Biennale
Winner of the inaugural John Moores Critics Award, Linda Pittwood reports back from the recent Shanghai Biennale… The first time I visited the Power Station of Art, epicentre of the 9th Shanghai Biennale,...
Field Trip #17: Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York
Invited to York by Aesthetica Magazine, we discovered there’s so much more to the city than its Viking heritage… Think of York and your mind conjures … what? The collective conscience probably turns...
Field Trip #16: Cologne
Artist, and Artistic Director at the Bluecoat, Bryan Biggs reports back from Cologne… There’s a joke going round in Germany at the moment about its Chancellor: ‘What does Angela Merkel do with her...
Field Trip #15: Madrid
Absinthe, indie and Guernica, all part of a whistle-stop tour of Madrid, one of the world’s finest cities… It’s always a thrill landing in one of the world’s greatest cities, but as we...
Field Trip #14: Frankfurt
Artist Natalie Hughes infiltrates Frankfurt, observing camping punks, art schools, curated balconies and confused Americans … It’s 9:20 am Frankfurt time on the 14th September and there’s a chill in the air as I make...
Field Trip #13: London
When we were invited down to Radio 6 Music, we thought it would make perfect material for a London Field Trip… This particular Field Trip has been a long time coming. London is...
Field Trip #12: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Berlin: a city where gothic meets space age architecture… Fired up on caffeine courtesy of a beautiful cafe in north east Berlin (Anna Blumen), I rock up at the Neue Nationalgalerie, where construction...
Field Trip #11: Indie Tracks Festival
Paul Forster reports from Indie Tracks Festival, and asks: ‘is this the last bastion of indie-pop?’ If indie-pop is the last bastion, then Indie Tracks, the festival located in the Derbyshire countryside, is...