In a time in which everything has felt increasingly sanitised, Manchester-based art collective Studio SCUM is returning to the idea of filth as something liberating and transgressive. FILTH is the title of their most recent project. It takes the form of a zine: fifty pages of text and imagery. There is poetry, prose, photography, sculpture,…
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As part of her Masters at Salford University, filmmaker and spoken word poet Lissi Simpson created Mėxed. The short film combines poetry and dance to explore mixed-race people’s relationships with the word ‘frizzy’ and draws on her own experience as a bi-racial British-Jamaican woman. I caught up with Simpson ahead of the film’s screening at…
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I duck under red stage drapes into the projection room. The walls are lined with DVD and video game cases. Toby Soar talks me through the impressive specs of each piece of technology with a great deal of pride. “We show cult cinema and anything film nerds want,” he says. I scan the shelves, picking…
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In light of recent events, questions are being asked about who designs our urban public spaces, and which interests they serve. Following the Sarah Everard case, in which a police officer is charged with the kidnap and murder of a young woman who was walking home from a friend’s flat, the government announced a…
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In Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Adam Curtis tackles the dark history of modern society with extensive use of archive footage, eerie audio and his own distinctive narration. It is utterly unlike anything else apart from every other Adam Curtis documentary. Maybe that’s unfair. Curtis’s key theme in this six-part series is our…
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If you have travelled through Withington Village over the past year, you will have had the pleasure of seeing the vibrant street art covering various walls and shutters. Art has always had the ability to cross language and cultural barriers. Public art is accessible to everyone, and, because of this, it can be a vehicle…
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In-person exhibitions, international travel and reliance on zero-hour contracts are unsustainable foundations for the traditional gallery model. The pandemic has highlighted their fragility. As the restrictive realities of multiple lockdowns set in, belt-tightening measures were implemented by those at the top of large arts organisations whilst the lowest-paid staff – and countless freelancers – were…
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People’s History Museum explores the radical history of democracy, equality and justice. It has a collection of almost 1,500 objects and displays the largest number of trade union and other banners in the world. With the pandemic forcing museums to close, PHM is asking its visitors to support them through this difficult time. We have…
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Heavily inspired by magical realism and folk tales, Iona Monks’ etched and aquatinted prints reflect fantasy, violence and cruelty.
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Corbin Shaw’s artwork is striking. From his Instagram profile photo – a one-pound coin – to his exhibition work, it is suffused with images of English-ness.
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