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Thoughts on Decolonising the Curriculum
In Reflections
I’d been reading around ideas apropos decolonising the curriculum for a little while, but Black Lives Matter made me sit up and pay attention and compelled me to engage with the movement with a greater level of rigour .I first became […]
Forced Entertainment, Media Reality and Chairman M…
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Forced Entertainment’s corpus ‘can be broadly categorised as being driven by questions about the viability of theatre as a representational medium in an age of simulation’ (Gorman 2015, p.190). The company’s director Tim Etchells succinctly […]
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 […]