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The Internet as a Performance Medium
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‘Art is presented on the Internet as a specific kind of reality: as a working process, or even life process, taking place in the real, offline world’ (Groys 2018, p.174) Live performance has migrated online since theatres closed in March 2020. […]
To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
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They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial models. In […]
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove
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We mustn’t be victims, but protagonists of our own story I want this line spray painted across every government briefing and policy document relating to modern race and racism. It feels like it could be spoken by a Spiked contrarian or […]
Alternatives to the Academic Essay
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During lockdown I was amazed at the quality of online work the students produced for the performative writing module I teach at Rose Bruford, so much so that I and the programme directors have decided to make a permanent change to the assessments so […]
Crave at Chichester Festival
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I think this was the first show I bought a ticket for in lockdown. It was worth the wait (although I’m still much more interested in theatre produced for the medium of the internet than shows which are live streamed – it’s always […]