It is an honour to have a short article on kissing in photography published in the same issue as a discussion on HBO’s TV show ‘In Treatment’ and the rise of internet sex. Read the article here (PDF 1.7MB).
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The British Psychoanalytic Council
Projecting Desire: Sex, Psychoanalysis and Cinema
A very interesting course at Tate Modern. I would so love to have the resources to teach something like this: Led by Lucy Scholes and Richard Martin 10.30-16.00 on 5 June only 10.30-13.00 all the other sessions Combining film, literary and psychoanalytic theory, this six-week course explores the fascinating theoretical connections within the work of [...]
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Merry Christmas
May 2010 bring everything you wish for! PS: I am after the purple platforms, the ones with the bow!
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The noughties
2000: Moved from Manchester to Sheffield. Met Hayley and Oli and Stuart who took me to the pub. Finished BA. Met Neil. Got attacked by a goose. Moved to London. Started MA. 2001: Westminster Bridge Road. Depression. Finished MA. Started work in academia. Lost ability to make art. Won Mr and Mrs competition. 2002: Tooting. [...]
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From perfect lovers to banality
An artist reflects on an artist’s Biennale
Wonderful! Arttra have published my thoughts on the 53rd Venice Biennale here.
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RIP John Hughes
Yes, another RIP. I skipped Merce Cunningham’s because I thought I would get a reputation. You see, self consciousness has been on a high, lately, due to my creative writing (this endless chapter 3) and the fact that, this week, two people greeted me with ‘hey, I was showing your blog to my wife…’ I [...]
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Antichrist
I am not sure I really wanted to watch Antichrist. I like Lars von Trier a lot so the kernel of my desire was more wanting to engage in a conversation with him, to see what he had to say after a few years away from us (a few years of illness). I did not [...]
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Lunch with Blahnik
Sometimes, this humble blog sounds like a death blog. All these R.I.P.s, with some personal ones I did not even mention… It is summer and it is time to change the tone, although what I am going to mention also involves death (death, the ultimate seducer, do you remember Baudrillard’s story in Samarkand?). This time, [...]
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Pina RIP
Farewell, beautiful Pina Bausch! My first encounter with Café Muller is one of the most amazing experiences I have ever had. Here are Neil Bartlett’s accurate words (from an article written for the Guardian in 2005): ‘No theatre was as brutally or as elegantly in the present tense as Bausch’s, no women are more powerful [...]
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