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  Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Billy Wilder. Nº1 • Femme Fatale In an iconic scene from Billy Wilder’s 1944 thriller…

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Notes on Longing

        (I) Towards the end of 2020, my husband and I spent what felt like hours going over Covid-19 protocols. We were about to host…

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Michael Armitage on Mythic Landscapes and Visual Memory

At the cusp of figurative and abstract aesthetic traditions, Michael Armitage’s paintings are large works of expressionist landscapes. Human–animal beings are woven into visual ecologies rich with sensual life.

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Sexual Undertones

Silvana Mangano in Teorema (1968)© Reporters Associati – Roma Nº1 • Cinema as Refuge In a 1969 interview in Lyon,…

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Tai Shani on Affects Unknown

Working across performance, film and installation, artist Tai Shani has steadily developed an intoxicating mythology. Drawn from Greek myths, science fiction, queer theory and feminist activism, her fictions trouble…

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Bethan Laura Wood on the Dreamer that Dreams the Dream

In December 2015, I met Bethan Laura Wood at a serendipitous event, where a joint friend of ours, the curator Sigrid Kirk, hosted a group of female creatives over…

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Saelia Aparicio on Masturbators and 
Hybrid-Bodied Creatures

Born in Valladolid, Spain and now living and working in London, artist Saelia Aparicio understands bodies – their leakiness, unruliness and sensitivity. Her sculptural cosmos is populated by hybrid…

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Charlie Fox on Transformation 
and the Deliciously Weird Creatures 
Who Live within Him

Sometimes you pick up a book not realising the power that lies beneath its cover. Like the briefcase in Pulp Fiction, what exactly is in it remains a mystery,…

Musings

Ocular Offal, Chromatic Cannibals

It was dusk when we sat on folding chairs in the concrete courtyard, our backs to the industrial steel bins. We tapped personal screens made of unbreakable sapphire to…

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Tim Etchells on Ventriloquism, Phone Sex, and the Hard Work of Language

The erotic quality of the oeuvre of visual artist and writer Tim Etchells is perhaps not immediately apparent. Though it is conceptual in nature and precise in execution, his visual…

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Victoria Sin

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Event Horizon

Event is a thing that happens or takes place, marked by its levels of significance; it is the momentous imprint of planned or unplanned happenings that can have a social…

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Ed Atkins on Abject Bodies, Incorporeality and Virtual Flesh

Many years ago at Tate Britain, I picked up a small paperback written by an artist called Ed Atkins. Stacked in a darkened exhibition space that preceded a screening room,…

Tentacular Thinking

The Monstrous Passion

The tongue, this invertebrate, which is the grey eminence of Amorpolis, is the prime minister in the shadow cabinet; in fact, much more capable than the officially serving Penis;…

Essay
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Do You Want to Play…

How shall we start talking about the course of activities that does not serve to represent you? Would you be interested in such an activity in the first instance? Do…

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Matthew Beaumont on London Nightwalking: Evoking the Dangerous and Sensual

Life brings coincidences, or coincidences pronounce life. I came across Matthew Beaumont’s tremendous research at one of my favourite bookshops in London. Currently wrapped up in thinking about the night…

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Celia Hempton

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Lena C. Emery

Musings

Warding Off the Evil Eye

In ancient Rome, there was a firm scientific belief in the Evil Eye, a curse fired from the glare of a malevolent gazer on an unsuspecting…

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James Richards on Physical Logics and Living with Images

Turner-Prize nominated artist James Richards uses a particular phrase to describe his fascination with the films of fellow artist Steve Reinke; that through his work you get a sense…

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Simon Stephens on Scorsese, Libidinous Creativity and Looking for Humanity Where You Least Expect it

I first met Simon Stephens when he conducted a workshop with a group of young directors at the National Theatre Studio in London. He gave us chunks from his latest…

Musings

Principles of Pleasure

Pleasure is a double bind. Its inherent quality of finitude keeps you under the influence. It attracts and repels at all times. Perhaps it is a continuous engagement and negotiation…

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Ivar Wigan

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Matt Lambert

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Eddie Peake on Revolution, the Ideal Body, and Roger Rabbit

Eddie Peake’s artworks marshal affect to inseminate the hallowed gallery space with a sweaty slick of bodies rendered under the fluorescent light of the nightclub. Driven by jungle music, his…

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David Haines

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