Issues / #57 A Flickering in the Store Cupboard
A PLACE FOR 4 WOMEN, #1 WORM MOON
The first of a four part poetic response by Valerie Norris to ‘The Bitter Cup’ by Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
Dot, dot, dot, space, space, space
Maria Blom revisits three repetitive acts: encountering Magic Block: Contemporary Art from Chile, Rachel Lowe’s film A Letter to an Unknown Person no. 2 and Ceal Floyer’s audio work ‘Til I Get It Right
Pictorial Critique
Madeleine Pollard interviews New York based artist and illustrator Pamela Sztybel
COTTAGING THE HEDGEROW: PART 4
The final instalment of a four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
SQIFFLIX: Queer community online
Through a series of WhatsApp conversations artists Rachel Sharpe and Andrw Houston (two queers in lockdown) discuss clones, politics, vengeful vampiric werewolves and say thank you to SQIFF for providing a platform for them to continue to connect.
Within Four Walls
Myriam Mouflih re-watches Jumana Manna’s A Magical Substance Flows Into Me, 2016
Every film screening, its own kind of love affair
Kaya Erdinç reviews Masha Tupitsyn’s latest book Picture Cycle, Semiotext(e)
GROVE AND GRIEF
Clare Patterson reads ‘Grove’ by Esther Kinsky, Fitzcarraldo Editions, April 2020
‘Liquiform Murmurs’
Nisha Ramayya explores Vahni Capildeo’s invitations in Odyssey Calling, Sad Press, 2020
Romance in what feels like The End
Marie Lopez reviews Elaine Kahn’s latest poetry collection Romance or the End, Soft Skull Press, 2020
COTTAGING THE HEDGEROW: PART 3
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
The Allure of Simultaneity
Kashif Sharma-Patel explores social poetics, culture and experimental writing in Anthony Joseph’s The Frequency of Magic
Listen To This
Neil Cooper explores a host of meditations and recent listenings on ‘the impossibility of silence’ unfolding through the past, present and uncertain future
Attention Economies
William Kherbek attends Glasgow International’s Digital Programme 23 April - 31 May 2020
Cottaging The Hedgerow: Part 2
A four part chronicle by Mathew Parkin, foraging queerness and rurality in recent artist moving image
THE TRAIN
Maria Howard recalls a train journey, a film and counterfeit memories of collective grief
ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL, LIVE
Alexander Storey-Gordon tuned into (and out of) the digital programme, 1-3 May 2020
LIONISING
Calum Sutherland reflects on Charlotte Prodger’s ‘SaF05’ and the lions of Venice during a trip to the Biennale in 2019