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 …
Tag: Theatre
The Internet as a Performance Medium
‘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 …
To Be A Machine by Dead Centre
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 …
Steve McQueen’s Small Axe – Mangrove
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 …
Crave at Chichester Festival
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 …