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
Transmission: HOSPITALITY
I am off to the Transmission: Hospitality conference, my second one this summer and one I am particularly looking forward to, as I will be part of a panel I proposed a few months back and which will be chaired by Dany Nobus. Here’s what Nicky Bird, Bran Nicol and I will be discussing on Saturday morning:
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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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Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society at Middlesex University
On the 5th of June, I will be giving an overview of my recent work on seduction at the Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society conference at Middlesex University. Here’s my abstract, to whet your appetite (if psychoanalysis, culture and society are your thing, of course): Make me yours: studying the psychodynamics of seduction through works of [...]
Exposed at Tate Modern
This looks stunning:
Exposed
Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
Tate Modern 28 May – 3 October 2010
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Screening
I’ll be showing Misrecognition and SplitFlip as part of As We Speak, a Glasgow International 2010 event. Come down to Stereo (Renfield Lane) on Wednesday 28 April at 8pm to see them and other wondeful experimental videos and moving image artworks. So as my other show closes, new works appear in the city. Who said [...]
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My book has arrived!
If you think I have been quiet since Christmas (or even before) it is because writing a thesis does not leave me much to say. All my energy is thrown into those pages, into those words, but today I had a lovely surprise when other words I had written a while ago, turned up, nicely [...]
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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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August dream
I have a hip injury which nibbles at my walking and does not let me carry handbags that are bigger than clutches. I have tried everything from painkillers to rest. I have put the memory foam mattress on and off without much change. I still think it is either psycho-somatic (Neil’s bet) or a problem with alignment (my haunch). As a desperate measure, I bought a new pillow, a squarish uncomfortable looking, orthopedic thing that works best if one sleeps on one’s back – which I am not keen on, but perhaps should, for the sake or straight walking. It must have reminded me of my psychoanalyst’s couch for, the first night I slept on it I had the following dream:
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Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox
We are in the last throws of preparing the texts for the forthcoming ‘Managing Creativity: Exploring the Paradox’, a book edited by Barbara Townley and Nic Beech, published by Cambridge University Press. I contributed a chapter on my favourite lemon squeezer. After writing a code of practice for work, various course reports, three chapters of my PhD thesis and a number of articles for a Spanish tendencies webzine, tackling a specialist, yet broad audience was a breath of fresh air.
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