LAAF: Port Cities – Reviewed
From the memories of oceans and those claimed by them, to the still burning embers of colonialism, in Port Cities, Mike Pinnington finds an urgent exhibition for our times… Ascending the stairs at...
Talking to The Wastes
“Truth, pretending, endings, and the stories we necessarily tell ourselves and each other.” Ellie Hoskins on a fragmentary and poetic debut novel by Roy Claire Potter… A good book, to me, feels like...
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens – In Pictures
Dora Maar: Behind the Lens emphasises the titular artist’s photographic talent and experimental flair. We invited the founder of Amar Gallery, Amar Singh, to talk us through some of his favourite works from...
This Town: Working Class Cultures on TV
Just 8% of people in film and TV identify as being from a working-class background. Can better, more nuanced representation on screen help? Kenn Taylor on Stephen Knight’s This Town… Dante (Levi Brown)...
Thy Race is Run – Apocalypse Now?
Why are we so drawn, perhaps increasingly so, to visions of the apocalypse? Mike Pinnington, via a variety of mediums – from poetry to gaming – interrogates our seemingly endless appetite for the end… “We...
S is for Science Fiction
“Genre boundaries are constantly shifting and being challenged.” Mike Pinnington asks: what is science fiction? What is Science Fiction? My response to this is that I know it when I see it (or,...
Introducing: Science Fiction Collections Curator Thomas Dillon
Thomas Dillon, Science Fiction Collections Curator at the University of Liverpool, talks us through the largest catalogued collection of science fiction materials in Europe… Hi Thomas. Tell us about the University of Liverpool’s Science Fiction Collections...
A Dreamlike Quality of Unreality – The Many Afterlives of Anna May Wong
How to parse affection for the classics of old Hollywood with the many micro-aggressions and bare-faced instances of racism committed against actors of colour? Mike Pinnington considers a pair of exhibitions that walk...
Susan Leask: New Sculptures
“I’m probably unaware of how much of myself I’m giving away.” Jon Barraclough speaks with artist Susan Leask ahead of a new exhibition of her sculptural works at Liverpool’s Bridewell Studios & Gallery… It’s...