Culture Diary w/c 25-08-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK! Tuesday – Combines #2 6-9pm @ Model, Liverpool — FREE Tonight sees three more artists...
“Decidedly Alien”: The Paintings Of Mimei Thompson
Animal, vegetable or mineral? Wayne Burrows finds himself entranced by the luminous, hallucinatory paintings of Mimei Thompson… Occupying a whole large wall in the final room of Mimei Thompson’s current solo exhibition at Trade Gallery...
In Profile: Jean Vigo’s Zéro de Conduite (1933)
Adam Scovell on comic drama Zéro de Conduite and the enduring influence of its young director, Jean Vigo… The work of French director Jean Vigo has a phantom-like quality in the canon of...
The Glitch Interview: S. J. Fowler
C James Fagan throws the rule book out of the window for his interview with Syndrome’s latest resident artist, poet, performer, and muse, S. J. Fowler… Syndrome is an event; it is a...
Culture Diary w/c 18-08-2014
What’s hot this week? Our pick of the arts listings from around Liverpool and the rest of the UK! Monday — Wakolda 6.30pm @ FACT, Liverpool — £9.50/8.50 Ever read The Boys From Brazil? Admired...
Wysing Arts Centre’s Futurecamp: A Post-Gender World
Are we living in a Post-Gender World? What do the words ‘post’ or ‘gender’ actually mean to you? Alice Hughes takes an in-depth look at social labels, identity stereotypes and ideas about the ‘self’...
Nasreen Mohamedi: Lines Among Lines
Co-curator of Tate Liverpool’s current top floor Nasreen Mohamedi exhibition, Eleanor Clayton gives insight into the artist’s world: one which aimed to create purity, balance and unity through abstraction… Nasreen Mohamedi was a pioneer...
Adapting The Way We Watch Film: ICA Artists’ Moving Image Network
Where is the best place to watch artists’ film? Josie Sommer explores the ICA’s Artists’ Film Club on tour and finds herself wondering whether we need an entirely new space outside of the cinema...
Join Us At The Next North-West Writers’ Meet & Greet!
Writer? Blogger? Journalist? Publication? Join us, Creative Tourist, Corridor8 and friends for our next meet and greet! We’ve long been of the mind that there’s strength in numbers. That having friends — rather...