I’ve written an article in the current April issue of The Wire on the excellent video installations of Elizabeth Price (formerly of 80′s indie pop group Talulah Gosh). Her show at Newcastle’s Baltic Centre runs through May and she has another in the works for London’s MOT International gallery, sometime at the end of April. [...]

I’ve organised a Wire salon at Cafe Oto. Below is a short blurb (adapted from a small bite in a previous issue of the mag). I was going to use it for an accompanying reading list for the salon, but it didn’t seem necessary so it’s here now: Visual maps flatten out the world, radically [...]

In early February 2012 I interviewed John Akomfrah, film maker and co-founder of the Black Audio Film Collective. We spoke mostly about his new film, 9 Muses, his film making methods (unsurprisingly for the man who made Handsworth Songs, he takes an improvisational and musical approach) and his experiences making films for TV in the [...]

With: Me, Benedict Drew, Benedictions (Patricia Lennox-Boyd and Jamie Stevens featuring Jeremy Glogan, Steve Kado and Morag Keil). My segments are the ‘Personal Places’ bits. They were performed by the amazing Saul Reichlin (who only insisted upon a few changes to the script). A massive thanks and congrats needs to go out to Kate Cooper, [...]

TV by artists, for artists you say? Well, why not?! Saturday 24 September, 8pm at an artist-run project space near you!. Come down to the Magick Old Kentish Road on the night or watch live online at the above link.

“For the past four years Matmos have been re-enacting experiments into telepathy that were done in the 1960s. They were basic sensory deprivation set-ups in which the experimental subjects were unable to hear or see. The subjects were asked to recognise different shapes being transmitted to them from a table of graphic sigils. In Matmos’s [...]

“[Paul] Scheerbart’s Das Graue Tuch Und Zehn Prozent Weiß: Eine Damenroman (The Gray Cloth And Ten Percent White: A Ladies’ Novel)  (1914) [...] is the story of a “glass architect” [Edgar Krug] and his new wife, Clara [Weber], who travel the world in a dirigible or “airship.” At the beginning of the book, Clara signs [...]

Sound artist Susan Philipsz has been nominated for the Turner Prize this year . It reminded me that I shot some footage of an installation of hers at the ICA back in 2008. The Internationale was shown for two days at the ICA in central London off The Mall, a wide boulevard leading from Trafalgar [...]