Suite (212): Recent Episodes
Suite (212)
Suite (212) is a radio programme, broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm, and podcast that explores the arts in their social, political, cultural and historical contexts, hosted by Juliet Jacques. We take an inter-disciplinary approach, with an emphasis on innovative, underground or avant-garde work. Sometimes, panels discuss cultural politics; sometimes, we focus on a new publication or exhibition, or a specific individual or group whose work we admire.
Following from December 2021’s Resonance 104.4fm show on the cultural impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic with James Butler and Sarah Schulman, Juliet talks to writer Huw Lemmey about Channel 4’s landmark miniseries 'It’s a Sin'. Written by Russell T. Davies and broadcast across January and February 2021, 'It’s a Sin' follows a group of friends who meet on London’s gay scene in September 1981, just as the first British cases are being diagnosed, and charts the impact of HIV/AIDS on their sex lives, relationships, families, friendships and careers over the following decade. In this subscriber-only episode on the miniseries, Juliet and Huw talk about the conservatism of British television and their reluctance to commission it; critical reactions to the show, and call-backs to the 1980s ‘moral panic’ about homosexuality; Davies’ skill in writing for television; how the programme looks at the personal impact of HIV/AIDS, and its portrayal of LGBT activism and its relationship with wider British politics; and how 'It’s a Sin' is ultimately a show about care, and how it represents models of queer (and straight) kinship.
For Suite (212)'s final edition, host Juliet Jacques talks to writer/editor Owen Hatherley (Tribune and elsewhere) and Fatema Ahmed, acting editor of Apollo, about the current state of British cultural criticism and what the next few years might have in store. They discuss the reasons for stopping Suite (212) and the changing cultural climate between and after the General Elections of 2017 and 2019, and what's happened to the Labour Party; the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic; state funding, the media and the BBC; and what the left might focus on when thinking about the arts and culture.
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm, Juliet spoke to London-based artists, writers, musicians, curators and teachers Pil and Galia Kollectiv about their practice, the art world's reaction to Covid-19 and the state of British higher education, especially in arts universities. They talked about Pil & Galia's Immigrants exhibition (2018), their short films, their bands WE and UrBororo, their background in Israel and their writing for the music press, and more.
A full list of references from this episode is available to Patreon subscribers. To sign up for as little as £1 per month, visit patreon.com/suite-212.
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to playwright and screenwriter Trevor Griffiths, born in Manchester in 1935, about his life in writing for stage and screen since the late 1960s. Although Griffiths wrote the scripts for Warren Beatty's Reds (1981) and Ken Loach's Fatherland (1986), this interview focused on his plays Occupations (1970) and Comedians (1975), his TV series Bill Brand (ITV, 1976), his BBC TV film Food for Ravens (1997) and his play A New World, staged at Shakespeare's Globe in 2009.
A full list of references for this episode is available to Patreon subscribers for as little as £1 per month. You can subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/suite212.
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to poets Ed Luker (based in London) and Nat Raha (based in Edinburgh) about the state of poetry, publishing and funding in 21st century Britain. She asks Ed and Nat to share their poetry and their influences, discussing the Cambridge school of poets around J. H. Prynne and their studies at Sussex with Keston Sutherland. They discuss the divides between 'big' and 'small' presses and what sort of work(s) they publish, and the flaws of the 'underground' vs. 'mainstream' binary; the relationship between contemporary poetry and new currents in feminist and socialist politics; funding models for poets and publishers; and how new left-wing media might work with sympathetic poets.
For a full list of references from the show, please subscribe to our Patreon for as little as £1 per month, via https://www.patreon.com/suite212.
Now unlocked, this subscriber-only bonus episode came about because Juliet enjoyed talking so much to Sam Byers and Carl Neville about the 'state of the nation' novel for our monthly Resonance 104.4m show that they decided to keep going. They expanded on the question of what literature about Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party might look like, and how both the defeat and the intensification of neoliberalism might shape the form and content of British literature throughout the 2020s.
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In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to poetry, editor and academic Golnoosh Nour about the life and work of Iranian poet, writer and filmmaker Forough Farrokhzad (1935-67). Featuring plenty of readings from Farrokhzad's work (in the original Farsi and English translation by Sholeh Wolpé), Juliet and Golnoosh talk about Farrokhzad's early life and emergence on the post-war Iranian poetry scene, how her erotic feminist poetry scandalised the literary establishment, and her interest in traditional Persian literature. They discuss her only film, the short documentary The House is Black (1962) about a leper colony in Tabriz, northwest Iran; her relationship with filmmaker Ebrahim Golestan; and her influence on later Iranian filmmakers. Finally, they talk about Farrokhzad's enduring legacy in Iran despite her work being banned after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, and her influence on Golnoosh's poetry.
In this month’s Resonance 104.4fm show, former co-host Tom Overton returns to interview Suite (212)’s founder, Juliet Jacques, about Variations, her new collection of stories that tells a potted history of trans and non-binary people in the United Kingdom from the Victorian era to the present, published by Influx Press on 17 June 2021.
They talk about how Juliet moved on from her ‘Transgender Journey’ series for the Guardian and her memoir, Trans, that came out of it in 2015; why she chose to write Variations as short stories rather than as a novel, or a more straightforward British trans history, or make it as a film; the different forms she uses in each story, and her research processes; how postmodern approaches have intersected with prejudice to make the compilation of trans histories more difficult; how Variations looks at trans people’s complex relationships with industrialisation, law, sexology and media, as well as literature, music and film; the context of a British – and global – backlash against trans visibility and rights as she wrote the book; the absence of trans authors and authentic trans characters from literary history, the influences on her work and the uses of trans writers telling trans stories; and what Juliet might write next.
Pre-order Variations for £9.99 from the Influx Press website at https://www.influxpress.com/variations.
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In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to academics Owen Holland (University College London) and Bertrand Taithe (University of Manchester) about how writers responded to the Commune of Paris of 1871, both during its two-month existence from March to May 1871, and over the following decades. They talk about the print culture and intellectual circles that existed in Paris and France at the time; how writers such as Gustave Flaubert, Victor Hugo, Arthur Rimbaud, George Sand and Émile Zola reacted to the Commune at the time, and throughout the rest of the 19th century; how British authors responded in the 1880s, and how this shaped the mythology of the Commune; and how this interest in the Commune's memory became less the concern of literary writers and more of political theorists in the early 20th century.
For a full list of references in this month's show, please subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/suite212 for as little as £1 per month.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the nineteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Belgian artist, filmmaker and writer Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven about her recent retrospective in Berlin and its relationship to a work by Situationist theorist Raoul Vaneigem; her contribution to a group exhibition on the early 21st century, responding to Paul Van Ostaijen's epic poem Occupied City (1922); and her ongoing interests in feminism, the female body and technology.
In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to writers Sam Byers and Carl Neville about how they tried to represent 21st century Britain in their novels Perfidious Albion and Come Join Our Disease (Byers) and Resolution Way and Eminent Domain (Neville), and the concept of the 'state of the nation' novel. They talked about the challenges of writing in a time of rapid political flux, the need for such novels to capture a particular time and place, how the internet has affected ideas of the universal and the specific in literature, patriotic and dissident approaches to the genre, and how much it has been the preserve of straight white men.
For a full list of references, as well as an extra subscriber-only episode about how novelists might respond to the rise and fall of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, please subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/suite212 for as little as £1 per month.
In this preview of our subscriber-only episode about how British literature might write about Corbyn's Labour, the aftermath of the 2019 General Election and the 2020s, Juliet talks to novelists Sam Byers and Carl Neville about Ed Luker's 'How Did You Survive January?' and how poetry and film were better able to capture the emotions of 'the Corbyn project'. Carl discusses the difficulties of writing counter-factual literature about the 2017 and 2019 elections given the likely response of the state to a Corbyn victory, and how the actual reaction of the state, the media, the Tories and the Labour right to a left-wing Labour Party was far more savage than that portrayed in Chris Mullen's novel A Very British Coup. Finally, Sam talks about how artists and writers may find themselves co-opted into the culture wars that have subsumed the Labour left's structural and material analyses of British society, and the need to be brave in the face of relentless ridicule and hostility.
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In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, Juliet talks to artist Eirene Efstathiou and curator/writer iLiana Fokianaki, founder of the State of Concept gallery in Athens, about the visual art scene in Greece since the financial crash of 2007-2008, which badly affected the country. They discuss the impact on the arts of EU-mandated austerity, the rise and fall of the far-right Golden Dawn, the election of Syriza on a left-wing platform and the oxi referendum of 2015, the migration crisis, the return to party of New Democracy and the strict Covid-19 lockdown measures. They also consider the nature of Greek arts funding, what the decision to co-host Documenta 14 in Kassel and Athens said about Greece's relationship with Germany and the EU, and what it means to be a politically engaged artist in a time of crisis.
A full list of references is available for Patreon subscribers - go to https://www.patreon.com/suite212 to sign up. Cover image by Eirene Efstathiou; our theme music is 'Aus' by Fennesz.
In this extract from our subscriber-only show about 'It’s a Sin', Russell T. Davies’ recent mini-series for Channel 4 about the effects of the HIV/AIDS crisis on a group of friends living in London between 1981 and 1991, Juliet and writer Huw Lemmey talk about how the show portrays both the personal and the wider political impact. They talk about the role that the main female character, Jill (played by Lydia West) plays in the narrative, ideas of chosen family and the way It’s a Sin handles the politics of care, and how they are gendered within gay and queer communities.
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This is a preview of our Patreon-only episode about Ousmane Sembène & Thierno Faty Sow's historical drama Camp de Thiaroye (1987), about the mutiny of French West African troops at a transit camp in Dakar and their subsequent massacre by French forces on 1 December 1944, following on from this month's Resonance 104.4fm programme.
Here, Juliet talks to Dr Samba Gadjigo, co-director of Sembène! (2015) and biographer of the writer/filmmaker, as well as Helen Day Gould Professor of French at the Mount Holyoake University in Massachusetts, about one of Sembème's greatest works. They discuss how closely it was based on the actual events and on Sembène's experiences; controversies around the film's content, commission and funding; its relationship with the history of colonialism and African independence movements; its reception in Senegal and France; its importance in the cultural memory of the massacre; and more.
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In this month's Resonance 104.4fm show, made available a day early for our Patreon subscribers, Juliet talks to Dr Samba Gadjigo, author of a biography on the subject and co-director of the feature-length documentary Sembène! (2015), about the life and work of Senegalese writer and filmmaker Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007). They talk about the place of Senegal within the French empire, Sembène's upbringing in French West Africa and his political and literary awakening in post-war Marseille, his film training in the USSR and cinematic work in post-independence Senegal, his relationship with President (and poet/cultural theorist) Léopold S. Senghor, and his place within Senegalese, African and global cinema.
A full list of references is available for our Patreon subscribers - please visit https://www.patreon.com/suite212 to sign up.
This is a preview of our Patreon-only episode about how feature films dealt with the Holocaust, following on from this month's Resonance 104.4fm programme.
Here, Juliet talks to Dr Libby Saxton, Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London, about Wolfgang Staudte's The Murderers are Among Us (Die Mörder sind unter uns, 1946) - one of the first feature films made in East Germany after the war. They discuss the politics of the film's ending, changed after pressure from its Soviet backers as the Nuremburg trials began; its glancing references to Auschwitz; its refusal to identify the specifics of Jewish (or Roma, LGBT or other) suffering in favour of a humanist approach; and how Adam Curtis used the film in his BBC TV series The Living Dead (1995).
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This month’s episode, coinciding with Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021, looks at the specific role that documentary film played in recording, relaying and representing the horrors of the genocide. Juliet talks to Dr Libby Saxton, Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London, about how the Nazis coerced directors into making propaganda films at Terezin and Westerbork to show the concentration camps in a positive light; the importance of newsreels in exposing the atrocities at the end of World War II; how filmmakers moved from short-form to long-form documentary, and why it took years for such films to focus specifically on anti-Semitism and Jewish suffering; the importance of testimony from survivors, perpetrators and witnesses in the epic films The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) and Shoah (1985), and the limits that Claude Lanzmann placed on representation of the extermination camps; the complicity of cinema in the Holocaust; and what future documentaries, and visual culture, of the Holocaust might look like as the last of the survivors die out.
For a full list of references with links, please subscribe to Suite (212) at https://www.patreon.com/suite212. Our theme music is 'Aus' by Fennesz.
Tying in with World AIDS Day, December 2020's Resonance 104.4fm programme is about the cultural response to HIV/AIDS in the UK and USA, first identified in both countries in 1981. Juliet talks to Novara Media co-founder James Butler and writer, historian and journalist Sarah Schulman about the emergence of the virus and the response from right-wing governments, activist movements and radical artists, as well as the long-term impact on queer culture and lifestyles. They discussed works by Tony Kushner, David Wojnarowicz, Larry Kramer, Rosa von Praunheim, Gran Fury and many others.
A full list of references, with links, is available to subscribers - please visit https://www.patreon.com/suite212 to sign up.
Established in 1965, the Greater London Council hosted one of the United Kingdom’s most radical experiments in cultural policy after Ken Livingstone and the Labour left took control of it in 1981. This month, Juliet talks to academic Hazel Atashroo and Red Metropolis author Owen Hatherley about the entrance of the “post-1968 generation” into the GLC, and their approach to the arts: their interest in cultural democracy and challenging the Arts Council’s model of centralised funding; the Ethnic Arts and Community Arts sub-committees, and their critics; their use of post-punk aesthetics and their hip hop festival; their engagement with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and other radical movements. They discuss the reasons for the GLC’s abolition in 1986, the media campaign against “the Loony Left” and Thatcher’s assault on local authorities; its influence on New Labour’s cultural policies and foundation of the Greater London Assembly in 2000; and what can be learned from the GLC’s approach to the arts in the 21st century.
Often called “Europe’s last dictator”, Aleksandr Lukashenko has been President of Belarus since 1994, frequently holding dubious elections and referenda to give his regime the veneer of democracy. Protests after the most recent contest in August, in which writers and artists were prominent, brought international attention back to Lukashenko’s governance, but the Belarus Free Theatre have been making work at home and abroad about oppression and censorship in the country for the last fifteen years. This month on Resonance 104.4fm, Juliet spoke to the Theatre’s co-founder Natalia Kaliada, in exile in London, and Svetlana Sugako, the Theatre’s co-manager in Minsk, about their work, the regime and the recent protests.
Please note: this episode was recorded via Skype, with Svetlana in Belarus, so apologies for the occasional lapses in sound quality. A full list of references for the programme can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and is available to $3 subscribers – our theme music is 'Aus' by Fennesz.
During Jeremy Corbyn’s time as Labour leader, much attention was part to the economic vision that the party developed for the United Kingdom, but less to his personal interest in the arts, and how that shaped both Labour’s cultural policy, and their programme as a whole. In this interview, Juliet talks to Jeremy about his interest in the socialist cultures that formed around the 20th century Labour Party and the Popular United government in Chile, the arts policies the party developed under his leadership, the concept of cultural democracy and his determination to unlock the creative potential of the UK’s young people, #Grime4Corbyn and Culture for Labour in the 2017 and 2019 election campaigns, what the reaction to his fondness for James Joyce’s Ulysses says about the British media, how socially engaged artists might react to the 2019 election defeat and the job losses amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, and plenty more.
A full list of references for the programme can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and is available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the eighteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to artist Nada Prlja about her project Subversion to Red, made to represent the Republic of North Macedonia at the Venice Biennale in 2019. They discuss every aspect of Prlja’s multi-disciplinary project: its engagement with socialist ideology and legacies; its response to the Biennale’s ‘interesting times’ theme; the importance of the round table events with Chantal Mouffe and others; the history of North Macedonia, before and after the break-up of Yugoslavia, and the transformation of post-socialist Skopje; and the Subtle Subversion series in which Prlja re-created works by Yugoslav artists, such as Jordan Grabulovski and Borko Lazeski, as an act of solidarity.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the seventeenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to London-based visual artist and teacher Oreet Ashery. Born in Jerusalem in 1966 and educated at Sheffield Hallam University and Central Saint Martins, Oreet Ashery is a transdisciplinary artist who engages with biopolitical fiction, autoethnography, gender materiality and potential communities, making large-scale projects that span moving image, performance, music, writing and activism. Here, Ashery discusses her new text ‘We’ve been preparing for this our whole lives’ in respond to the Covid-19 outbreak; her recent film Dying Under Your Eyes (2019), commissioned by the Wellcome Collection for the Misbehaving Bodies exhibition that combined Ashery’s work with that of British artist Jo Spence (1934-1992); her Jarman Award-winning series Revisiting Genesis (2015-16) and its themes around death, dying and the digital; her Party for Freedom (2013), made in response to the rise of Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders, and The World is Flooding (2014), based on a play by Vladimir Mayakovsky; and the implications of the widespread adoption of digital technology during lockdown for the art world and especially the art school.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the sixteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Korean-Canadian artist Zadie Xa. Born in 1983 and based in London since studying at the Royal College of Art, Xa works in painting, textiles, film and performance, examining her own identity and her lived experience within the Korean diaspora, using water and marine ecologies as metaphors for exploring the unknown. Juliet spoke to Xa about her recent work responding to the Black Lives Matter protests; how she has experienced the Covid-19 lockdown (including a spike in racist attitudes towards east Asians; her performances at the Venice Biennale and Art Night in 2019; and how her work engages with matrilineal heritage, Korean culture and Oriental imagery in western pop culture.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the fifteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to artist-filmmaker John Smith. Born in London in 1952, Smith remains best known for The Girl Chewing Gum (1976), but has made more than sixty films in a career spanning nearly half a century, working with 16mm and digital film, and showing his work at the London Film-Makers’ Co-op and numerous galleries and cinemas as well as BBC2, Channel 4 and Vimeo. Here, Smith discusses his experiences canvassing for Labour (with Juliet) in the 2019 General Election campaign; his new film Twice (2020) about the government’s Covid-19 communications; his relationship with television in the 1980s and 1990s; his Hotel Diaries (2001-2007) and the War on Terror; and the two films he made around the EU referendum, Who Are We (2016) and A Song for Europe (2017).
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
The Covid-19 crisis has caused unprecedented challenges for the art world. The lockdown has blown a hole in the finances of large metropolitan institutions and smaller provincial galleries alike, with knock-on effects for staff and artists. It is causing arts organisations to rethink their relationships with local communities and with the internet, and to consider how exhibitions and other functions might work in the age of social distancing, with a likely fall in visitors and revenue when they eventually decide to reopen.
Joining Juliet to discuss this are Stefan Kalmár, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and Helen Stalker, CEO and Director of the Turnpike Gallery in Leigh, Lancashire. They talked about the origins of the two institutions in the age of cultural democracy, and how they navigated the challenges of austerity and Brexit; their funding models, and expectations of what might change in the wake of the 2019 General Election; how they handled lockdown, including when and why they closed, how they managed their staff and artists, and how much support they’ve received from the Arts Council and elsewhere; when they might reopen, how they might deal with social distancing, how this might change their practice, and whether any crisis-induced changes might be for the good.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the fourteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to English conceptual, video and installation artist Jeremy Deller, who was born in London in 1966. They discussed Deller’s documentary Everybody in the Place: An Incomplete History of Britain 1984-1992 (2019), commissioned by Frieze and shown on BBC Four; ideas around collective joy and acid communism, as well as young people’s access to culture and the music heritage industry; his film with Nick Abrahams about Depeche Mode fans; his Battle of Orgreave (2001), which recreated a pivotal confrontation during the miners’ strike of 1984-85, and helped Deller to win the Turner Prize in 2004; Deller’s poster campaigns for the 2017 General Election and in support of immigrants during the Covid-19 crisis; and what the culture and higher education sectors might look like in the wake of the pandemic.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the thirteenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to writer, performer, and activist Mark Thomas. Born in south London in 1963, Thomas has worked on TV and radio, written five books and a New Statesman column, curated two art exhibitions, and written a show for the Royal Opera House. His work combines stand-up comedy, investigative journalism, activism and audience participation, has won numerous awards and led to legal changes and government ministers leaving their jobs. Juliet spoke to Mark about his new podcast, The Things About Us, his next work about the NHS, his work in Northern Ireland and the West Bank, his battles with Coca-Cola and Nestlé, how Bertolt Brecht and the Fluxus movement influenced his practice, his TV series The Mark Thomas Product (1996-2002) and how his relationship with Channel 4 changed amidst the start of the War on Terror.
Cover image by Tracey Moberley.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the twelfth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to artist and filmmaker Deimantas Narkevičius about how the Covid-19 crisis has played out in his native Lithuania, its effect on his teaching work and artistic practice, his forthcoming feature film on stereoscopic photography and his previous works dealing with Soviet monuments and cultural memory. Then they discussed several of Narkevičius’ films in detail: The Role of a Lifetime (2003), made with English filmmaker Peter Watkins; Once in the XX Century (2004); Revisiting Solaris (2007), in which Narkevičius filmed the final chapter of Stanisław Lem’s science fiction novel, which was left out of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1972 adaptation; and Restricted Sensation (2011), dealing with the treatment of gay men in the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the eleventh of these Sessions, Juliet talks to performance artist, poet, writer, columnist and theatre-maker Travis Alabanza. They discuss Travis’ performance piece ‘Burgerz, and its path from the Hackney Showroom to the Southbank Centre, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and beyond, and the differences in performing in such venues; their immersive installation ‘All The Ways We Could Grow’ at the Free Word Centre in London; Travis’ performance around the Tate’s Queer British Art exhibition; how to reach different audiences via the mainstream media and through creative practice; the challenges of working in predominantly white and middle-class environments; and the campaign to save the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the tenth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to writer/journalist Nathalie Olah about her book Steal As Much As You Can, published by Repeater in October 2019. They discussed how the development of neoliberalism and imposition of austerity went hand-in-hand with the destruction of cultural democracy and the upper-class takeover of British popular culture, New Labour's relationship to arts and culture, the arts policies of Corbyn's Labour and its relationship with the media, and how the left needs to think differently about the 'culture wars' conducted by the UK's Conservative politicians and media.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
Recorded as a special programme to celebrate Resonance 104.4fm's 18th birthday, Suite (212) founder and host Juliet Jacques reads two texts written in response to 20th century art. The first is a short story inspired by Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-75) entitled 'I'm too sad to tell you about I'm Too Sad to Tell You' (2008). The second is a longer text about writer/artist Claude Cahun (1894-1954) called 'Sertraline Surrealism' (2016).
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the ninth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Abbas Zahedi – a London-based artist whose work combines social practice, performance, installation, moving image, institution-building and writing. Working with migrant and marginalised communities in the UK, he explores the concept of neo-diaspora, looking at how personal and collective histories interweave. Here, they discuss Zahedi’s solo exhibition at the South London Gallery – currently suspended due to the Covid-19 crisis – as well as his contribution to the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. They also talk about art as a means of dealing with trauma and loss; art as a way of exploring cultural heritage; the role of food, drink and community spaces in Zahedi’s work; the nature of the art school; the impact of the War on Terror on his career; and how the art world may indicate what the post-crisis phase of neoliberalism looks like, as well as the implications of art moving online.
A full list of references for the programme, with links, can be found via our Patreon at www.patreon.com/suite212, and are available to $3 subscribers.
In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the eighth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to writer and artist Joanna Walsh, the author of seven books including the short story collections Fractals (2013), Vertigo (2015) and Worlds from the Word’s End (2017), the novel Break.up (2018) and a work of creative non-fiction, Hotel (2015). They discussed Joanna’s Zines in Dark Times project, launched in response to the Covid-19 crisis; how writers might resist the pressure to react quickly to the epidemic and instead produce more considered work, and Joanna’s new piece of writing ‘The Dispossessed’ (2020); Joanna’s career in illustration, including her cover for Juliet’s book Trans: A Memoir (2015); her digital work Seed (2017) and new illustrations for her short story Grow a Pair (2015); the @Read_Women campaign that Joanna began on Twitter in 2014; her activism on ageism in literary and artistic circles, particularly in awards; and her feelings about the London-centric literary ‘scene’, and how literature might move beyond it.
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the seventh of these Sessions, Juliet talks to writer and academic Lars Iyer about his new novel, Nietzsche and the Burbs (2019), which transposes the German philosopher – or an avatar for him – to a contemporary sixth form college in the suburbs of Wokingham, where he fronts a band. They also talked about Iyer’s previous novel Wittgenstein Jr. (2014) and the neoliberal assault on the university; how philosophy and philosophers are perceived and treated in the UK; how Iyer’s Spurious trilogy grew out of his blog; how the internet and social media have reduced the distance between writers and readers; the usefulness of ‘autofiction’; and the end of the ‘end of history’.
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the seventh of these Sessions, Juliet talks to writer and academic McKenzie Wark about her new book Reverse Cowgirl, published by Semiotext(e) in 2019, different approaches to trans narratives (especially memoir) and the emergence of trans subcultures; how trans authors write about sex; the queer writers that formed her perspective; the effects of pop music and social media in identity formation; her writing about the Situationists and her concept of ‘low theory’; and her feelings about the end of Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign and the need for the Anglo-American left to find new directions.
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the fifth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Slovenian artist and filmmaker Jasmina Cibic (b. 1979 in Ljubljana), about her interests in architecture and soft power; her work with archives to source found dialogue for her films, often from governmental sources; her background in Slovenia, and her experience of representing the country at the Venice Biennale with her To Our Economy and Culture project in 2013; her work since then, including The Pavilion (2015) and Tear Down and Rebuild (2015); the large scale of her recent work The Gift (2019); the importance of collaboration and conversation to her work; and how the coronavirus crisis might affect the political situation in Slovenia, and its potential consequences for the art world.
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the fourth of these Sessions, Juliet talks to artist and teacher Tai Shani, born in London to Israeli parents and now based in the city. They discuss the recent UCU strikes; Tai's route into art after a youth in Tel Aviv, Brussels and Goa, without formal art schooling; her installation and performance project DC: Semiralis, based on Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (1405); her decision to share the Turner Prize in 2019 after that project was nominated; her relationship with the art world and the UK's mainstream media.
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the third of these Sessions, Juliet talks to London-based writer Owen Hatherley, editor of Tribune magazine’s culture section, about the blogging circle in which he began writing in the mid-2000s; his experiences of writing about politics and culture in broadsheet newspapers and magazines; the appalling state of the British media and the venal, unserious nature of many of its contributors; the relationship between arts and culture writing and the British left, including the Labour Party, and how culture can continue to be politically useful to a socialist project.
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In February 2020, 74 universities affiliated to the UCU (University and College Union) began 14 days of industrial action, launching ‘Four Fights’ over casualisation of labour, unsafe workloads, falling pay, and gender and ethnicity pay gaps. The strikes became national news, supported by staff and students alike, with vibrant picket lines at many “art schools” across the country speaking out against exorbitant tuition fees, massive pay gaps between vice chancellors and lecturers, the punitive and racist Prevent programme introduced to stop student ‘radicalisation’, the digitalisation of courses and much more.
Juliet Jacques – herself a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, where 90% of staff are casualised – spoke to artist and researcher Dr Annie Goh, a lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and an Associate Lecturer in Sound Arts at London College of Communication, and Kyran Joughin, lecturer in film and critical practice at Wimbledon College of Art (part of the University of the Arts London) about the recent strikes, how the coronavirus crisis might lead to further digitalisation and casualisation, and how staff and students might organise against it. They also discussed the legacy of Thatcher’s assault on the idea of cultural democracy, the marketisation of education and privatisation of knowledge under the New Labour government, and the student protests after the Liberal Democrats broke their promise to abolish tuition fees on joining the Conservative-led coalition in 2010.
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype (so apologies for the diminished audio quality), about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
In the second of these Sessions, Juliet talks to Athens-born, London-based artist and writer Erica Scourti about the recent UCU strikes in higher education, and especially art colleges, the politics of freelance life, the mediation of emotion through technology, experimental approaches to memoir and the representation of subjectivity, and her translations of works by Greek poet and actor Katerina Gogou (1940-1993).
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In the wake of the coronavirus epidemic and shutting down of much of the UK's cultural life, we have decided to bring you a series of interviews with contemporary artists, writers, filmmakers and other cultural figures, conducted via Skype, about their practices, the political issues that inspire them and the socio-economic conditions that have shaped their work.
First, Juliet talks to London-based visual artist Ilona Sagar (https://www.ilonasagar.com/) about her film works Correspondence O (2017), dealing with the history of the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London, and Deep Structure (2019), documenting the Park Hill estate in Sheffield. They also spoke about Ilona's research on workers affected by asbestos and the Ford Dagenham sewing machinists strike of 1968, her interest in other artists and writers addressing healthcare and disability, and the recent UCU strikes in higher education, and especially art colleges.
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CONTENT NOTE: 'The Woman in the Portrait' contains descriptions of sexual violence and transphobia.
Recorded on 23 August 2019, Suite (212) co-host Juliet Jacques appeared on Montez Press Radio to discuss her work in literature and film. She read her short story 'The Woman in the Portrait' (2014) about a trans woman in Weimar-era Berlin, talked about her forthcoming short story collection and her work in film, especially her short 'You Will Be Free' (2017).
This week on Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to author Shiromi Pinto about her second novel, Plastic Emotions (https://www.influxpress.com/plastic-emotions), recently published by Influx Press, inspired by the life of 20th century Sri Lankan architect and feminist icon Minnette de Silva (1918-1998).
SELECTED REFERENCES Shiromi Pinto: http://www.christopherlittle.net/authors/shiromi-pinto/ Minnette de Silva: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/14/minnette-de-silva-the-brilliant-female-architect-forgotten-by-history
Geoffrey Bawa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Bawa Henri Cartier-Bresson Le Corbusier: https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Le+Corbusier:+Architect+and+Feminist-p-9780470847473 David Lean Pablo Picasso
Andrea Lawlor's debut novel Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl has a protagonist who can change his body at will, creating a narrative that explores space between male and female without relying on established transsexual narratives. This week, Juliet talks to Lawlor about the novel - one of the first by a trans/non-binary author on a major publisher - and the state of trans/non-binary literature more generally.
SELECTED REFERENCES ANDREA LAWLOR, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/05/andrea-lawlor-dont-want-to-be-representative-of-a-type
Travis Alabanza - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/mar/27/travis-alabanza-interview-future-theatre Dodie Bellamy - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-dodie-bellamy/ Jay Bernard - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet IMOGEN BINNIE, Nevada (2013) - https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/04/02/nevada-a-novel-by-imogen-binnie KATE BORNSTEIN, Gender Outlaw (1994) - https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2016/02/103271/kate-bornstein-interview-transgender JOE BRAINARD, 'I Remember' (1975) - https://frieze.com/article/i-remember BRIGID BROPHY, In Transit (1969) - http://everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2014/10/review-of-brigid-brophys-in-transit-by.html Judith Butler KAI CHENG TOM, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (2018) - https://caseythecanadianlesbrarian.com/2018/07/13/i-believe-in-dangerous-stories-a-review-of-fierce-femmes-and-notorious-liars-by-kai-cheng-thom/ AKWAEKE EMEZI, Freshwater (2018) - https://www.akwaeke.com/freshwater LESLIE FEINBERG, Stone Butch Blues: A Novel (1993) - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/opinion/sunday/the-best-book-for-2018-is-25-years-old.html Gender Trash From Hell (zine) - http://archive.qzap.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/337 R. L. GOLDBERG, 'Towards Creating a Trans Literary Canon' (2018) - https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/23/toward-creating-a-trans-literary-canon Caspar Heinemann - https://www.the87press.com/product-page/novelty-theory-caspar-heinemann ROZ KAVENEY, Tiny Pieces of Skull (2015) - https://boingboing.net/2016/06/09/30-years-on-roz-kaveneys.html C. L. LESTER, Trans Like Me (2017) - https://www.virago.co.uk/translikeme/ E. J. Levy - https://medium.com/@jackdoyle_76250/the-trans-take-towards-a-trans-public-history-deb1bc9d822b Torrey Peters - http://www.torreypeters.com CASEY PLETT, Little Fish (2018) - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/reviews/article-review-casey-pletts-little-fish-looks-forward-to-trans-futures Nat Raha - https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2245-the-limits-of-trans-liberalism-by-nat-raha John Rechy - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/interview-john-rechy JORDY ROSENBERG, Confessions of the Fox (2018) - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/27/books/review/jordy-rosenberg-confessions-of-the-fox.html SEVERO SARDUY, Cobra (1972) - https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/09/archives/cobra.html RIVERS SOLOMON, An Unkindness of Ghosts (2017) - https://www.npr.org/2017/10/06/548665897/unkindness-of-ghosts-transposes-the-plantations-cruelty-to-the-stars?t=1558972023965 SANDY STONE, 'The "Empire" Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto' (1987/91) - https://sandystone.com/empire-strikes-back.html Transgender Studies Quarterly - https://www.dukeupress.edu/tsq-transgender-studies-quarterly GORE VIDAL, Myra Breckenridge (1968) - https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-myra-breckinridge-20180223-story.html VIRGINIA WOOLF, Orlando (1928) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/03/different-sex-same-person-how-woolfs-orlando-became-a-trans-triumph
Growing out of a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, manga has become one of the world's most popular and influential graphic art forms, moving from comics into anime films and beyond.
This week, Lara Alonso Corona talks to journalist and curator Paul Gravett (http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/manga), author of Manga: Sixty years of Japanese Comics and Mangasia about the history of manga and the cultural and political impact of the medium, as well as the upcoming British Museum exhibition on manga, the largest ever of its kind outside of Japan.
SELECTED REFERENCES
The British Museum exhibition - https://blog.britishmuseum.org/an-introduction-to-manga Ainu history and culture - http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/en/study/eng01.html
Moto Hagio - http://classic.tcj.com/history/the-moto-hagio-interview-conducted-by-matt-thorn-part-one-of-four Shigeri Mizuki - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/shigeru-mizukis-war-haunted-creatures NAGATA KABI, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness (2017) - https://www.sevenseasentertainment.com/books/my-lesbian-experience-with-loneliness Osamu Tezuka - https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/06/books/book-reviews/life-japans-god-manga The Year 24 Group - https://theaoi.com/2016/07/15/v33-girls-world
Chinese-British novelist, memoirist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo (b. 1973) talks to Tom Overton about her life in the UK and PR China, and her work in cinema and literature, which explores Chinese history, trans-national identities, class, memory, personal and physical journeys.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY XIAOLU GUO (www.guoxiaolu.com)
Books A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (2007) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jan/27/featuresreviews.guardianreview33 Once Upon a Time in the East (2018)
Films Far and Near (film) We Went to Wonderland (2008) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-we-went-to-wonderland-2008-online She, a Chinese (2009) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-she-a-chinese-2009-online UFO in Her Eyes (2009) Late at Night, Voices of Ordinary Madness (2013) Five Men and a Caravaggio (2018)
STEVEN BARKER & XIAOLU GUO, 'Notes Towards a Metaphysical Cinema Manifesto' - http://www.guoxiaolu.com/WR_MANIFESTO_1.htm 'Further Notes ...' - http://www.guoxiaolu.com/WR_MANIFESTO_2.htm
WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) John Berger The Cranes are Flying (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2017/soviet-cinema/the-cranes-are-flying-soviet-cinema/ Mark Fisher - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n09/jenny-turner/not-no-longer-but-not-yet I Am Cuba (dir. Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/ GEORGE ORWELL, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Nikesh Shukla - https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/ey-exhibition-van-gogh-and-britain/talk-xiaolu-guo-nikesh-shukla Vincent van Gogh - http://vangoghletters.org/vg Andy Warhol
The 1970s were a fertile time for feminist film, producing not just a huge body of women's work - including Chantal Akerman's seminal 1975 film Jeanne Dielman - but also a corpus of journals and criticism. This week, Tom Overton talks to Daniella Shreir, editor of Another Gaze (http://www.anothergaze.com/) about the need for such publications and the history of feminist film criticism, as well as the work of Chantal Akerman, whose memoir Daniella has translated for Silver Press (https://www.silverpress.org/).
SELECTED REFERENCES Marina Abramović Chantal Akerman – https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/october/on-chantal-akerman Dorothy Allen-Pickard - https://www.dorothyallenpickard.com Melissa Anderson - http://www.bkmag.com/2016/09/19/brooklyn-100-melissa-anderson-film-critic/ Erika Balsom - http://www.erikabalsom.com Grace Barber-Plentie - https://www.bfi.org.uk/people/grace-barber-plentie Camera Obscura (journal) - https://www.dukeupress.edu/camera-obscura Cléo (film journal) - http://cleojournal.com Marguerite Duras - https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/the-films-of-marguerite-duras Annie Ernaux - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/apr/06/annie-ernaux-interview-the-years-memoir-man-booker-international Sandy Flitterman-Lewis - https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/author/flitterman-lewis-sandy Sheila Heti - https://soundcloud.com/suite-212/resonance-fm-suite-212-18th-june-2018 Molly Haskell - http://www.mollyhaskell.com Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (dir. Chantal Akerman, 1975) - http://www.anothergaze.com/radical-banality-chantal-akerman-labour-in-cinema-and-legacy-may-68 Christian Lacroix (fashion designer) Babette Mangolte - http://babettemangolte.org Jonas Mekas - https://soundcloud.com/suite-212/scenes-from-the-life-of-jonas-mekas Frances Morgan Laura Mulvey - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/566978/ Eileen Myles - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/eileen-myles No Home Movie (dir. Chantal Akerman, 2015) - https://theartsofslowcinema.com/2017/10/02/no-home-movie-chantal-akerman-2015 Ulrike Ottinger - https://www.ulrikeottinger.com/index.php/home.670.html Griselda Pollock - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griselda_Pollock Sally Potter - https://sallypotter.com Sarah Schulman - https://topsidepress.tumblr.com/post/130731976949/chantal-akermanon-suicide-by-sarah-schulman Delphine Seyrig - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0786891 Agnès Varda - https://www.anothergaze.com/after-agnes-varda-obituary-memorial-discussion-sandy-flitterman-lewis-kiva-reardon-lauren-elkin-as-hamrah-grace-barber-plentie-samia-labidi-jenny-chamarette-sheila-heti A Very Curious Girl (dir. Nelly Kaplan, 1969) - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/movies/a-very-curious-girl-restoration.html
Ever since September 2015, when the allegation emerged that the Prime Minister, David Cameron, had performed a sex act on a dead pig as a student, British politics has entered a strange new reality, in which satire has endlessly been pronounced dead. In this edition of Suite (212) Extra, Juliet talks to Huw Lemmey about how to make fun of the age of austerity and absurdism, polarisation and pigfucking, focusing on Huw's new book, Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY HUW LEMMEY Bad Gays (podcast) - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/yw89yb/bad-gays-podcast-interview Chubz: The Demonisation of My Working Arse (2014) - https://rhizome.org/editorial/2014/nov/20/chubz-demonization-my-working-arse-interview-huw-l Confirmed Pigfucker (2016) - https://viletrollbooks.bigcartel.com/product/confirmed-pigfucker-political-poems-by-spitzenprodukte Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell (2019) - http://montezpress.com/catalogue/books/red-tory-my-corbyn-chemsex-hell
Theodor W. Adorno MICHAEL ASHCROFT, Call Me Dave (2015) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate Marcus Brigstocke Charlie Brooker James Butler - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/4w7kxg/james-butler-huw-lemmy-chubz-322 Dawn Foster - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/mar/23/damage-cuts-and-sanctions-oxfam-wales-austerity Bob Geldof - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/15/nigel-farage-bob-geldof-rival-eu-referendum-thames-flotillas Have I Got News For You (TV series, 1990-present) Simon Hedges - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/53n9v8/the-new-wave-of-satire-for-our-morbid-political-landscape OWEN JONES, Chavs: The Demonisation of the Working Class (2011) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/08/chavs-demonization-owen-jones-review JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - https://everydayanalysis.org/2019/04/15/to-save-multicultural-liberalism-build-the-wall-on-joe-kennedys-authentocrats/ London (dir. Patrick Keiller, 1994) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v84byeueCBI THOMAS MANN, Death in Venice (1912) Al Murray, the Pub Landlord - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/its-not-just-nigel-farage-al-murray-the-pub-landlord-loses-south-thanet-bid-despite-patriotic-10235430.html Herbert Muschamp - http://justinmcguirk.com/hearts-city-herbert-muschamp The Now Show (radio series, 1998-present) Streatham Rovers FC - https://twitter.com/streathamrovers?lang=en The Thick of It (TV series, 2006-12) - https://www.blubrry.com/wdtatw/42236688/episode-84-politics-stayed-the-same-its-us-that-changed Tim Peaks: Farron Walk with Me (radio play, 2018) - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast/tim-peaks-farron-walk-with-me-a-reel-politik-original-radio-play Trashfuture (podcast) - https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/ The West Wing (TV series, 1999-2006)
This week, Lara Alonso Corona talks to Culture.PL editor and Stories from the Eastern West podcast presenter Adam Żuławski about his grandfather Jerzy Żuławski’s science fiction series The Lunar Trilogy and On the Silver Globe, the film adaptation directed by another family member, Andrzej Żuławski and first shown in 1988, and showing in London as part of Kinoteka – the London Polish Film Festival. They also discuss many of Andrzej Żuławski’s other films, the Young Poland modernist movement, and the challenges of making cinema in Communist Poland.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Blinded by the Lights (TV series, 2018) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6520930/ Boris Godunov (dir. Sergei Bondarchuk, 1986) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Godunov_(1986_film) Braindead (dir. Peter Jackson, 1992) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/ Cosmos (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 2015) – http://cinema-scope.com/cinema-scope-online/bleurghing-the-unspeakable-a-stroll-through-andrzej-zulawskis-cosmos/ DAVIES, GLIŃSKI & ŻUŁAWSKI, Quarks, Elephants & Pierogi: Poland in 100 Words (2019) – https://culture.pl/en/work/quarks-elephants-pierogi-poland-in-100-words-mikolaj-glinski-matthew-davis-adam-zulawski Philip K. Dick Hard to be a God (dir. Aleksei German, 2013) – https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/review-hard-be-god FRANK HERBERT, Dune (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel) Stanisław Lem – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-lem Bronisław Malinowski – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Malinowski On the Silver Globe (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1988) – https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/on-the-silver-globe-2016 Possession (dir. Andrzej Żuławski, 1981) – https://www.timeout.com/london/film/possession-1981 Solaris (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971) Stories from the Eastern West (podcast) – https://culture.pl/en/stories-from-the-eastern-west Jules Verne H. G. Wells STANISŁAW WYSPIAŃSKI, The Wedding (1901) – https://culture.pl/en/artist/stanislaw-wyspianski Young Poland – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Poland JERZY ŻUŁAWSKI, The Lunar Trilogy (1901-11) – http://translatingmarek.com/the-moon-landings-and-the-prophecies-of-jerzy-zulawski-polands-hg-wells-1969
This week on Suite (212), Juliet talks to legendary writer and artist Stewart Home about the nine novels - including one of his own - that he has chosen and edited with Gavin Everall for Book Works' Semina series of experimental texts, 'in which the novel has a nervous breakdown'. Joining them are Bridget Penney, author of the first entry, Index (2008) and Book Works' Lizzie Homersham.
SELECTED REFERENCES Stewart Home: https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ BRIDGET PENNEY, Index (2008) - https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/interviews/penney.htm Semina: https://www.bookworks.org.uk/publishing?commission=313
Hamja Ahsan - https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1917 Sophia Al-Maria - https://sophiaalmaria.wordpress.com/ Art in Ruins - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_in_Ruins Ed Atkins Atlas Press - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk IPHGENIA BAAL, Merced Es Benz (2017) - https://www.aqnb.com/2017/04/27/this-is-why-i-dont-get-invited-to-weddings-iphgenia-baal-on-love-the-shitty-state-of-culture-falling-out-of-sync-in-merced-es-bez KONRAD BAYER, The Head of Vitus Bering (1962) - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=6 Wallace Berman - https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/arts/design/26semi.html Hannah Black - http://arcadiamissa.com/hannah-black Chevalier d'Éon - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/jun/06/portrait-18th-century-early-transvestite Sophie Collins - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sophie-collins MARA COSON, Aliasing (2018) - https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/books/04/04/19/on-mara-cosons-aliasing-a-sort-of-book-review Dostoyevsky Wannabe - https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/small-print Jimmie Durham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Durham The Franklin expedition - https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/franklin Maria Fusco - http://mariafusco.net CASPAR HEINEMANN, Novelty Theory (2018) - https://www.the87press.com/product-page/novelty-theory-caspar-heinemann Susan Hiller - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/susan-hiller-1286 Andy Holden - https://andyholdenartist.com/dancoxlibrary MAXI KIM, One Break, a Thousand Blows! (2008) - https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/136 Jarett Kobek - https://themillions.com/2017/05/tk-on-jarett-kobeks-soft-cuddly.html Peter Kravitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kravitz JANA LEO, Rape New York (2010) - https://www.feministpress.org/books-n-z/rape-new-york Tom Leonard - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/tom-leonard-obituary London Institute of Pataphysics - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/theLIP/ Katrina Palmer - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-with-katrina-palmer Cornelia Parker Penny-Ante Editions - http://penny-ante.net HOLLY PESTER, Go to reception and ask for sara in red felt tip (2015) - https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1843 Adrian Piper Laure Prouvost - http://www.laureprouvost.com Erica Scourti - http://www.ericascourti.com ALEXANDER TROCCHI, Cain's Book (1960) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-moveable-void-tom-mccarthy-on-alex-trocchis-cains-book/ Mark Waugh - https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/interviews/waugh.htm Slavoj Žižek Urica Zürn - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unica_Zürn
Modernism in the arts, and particularly literature, has often been portrayed as a middle class pursuit, with certain literary critics focusing on the ‘elitism’ of the movement. But does this give a true picture of its social composition?
This week, Tom Overton talks to Nick Hubble about their new book The Proletarian Answer to the Modernist Question (https://euppublishingblog.com/2017/09/07/proletarian-modernism/), and about how the General Strike of 1926 (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/writing-the-1926-general-strike/41A4BEF1FB2C099EEEFD60A5F14C0B80), the Equal Franchise Act 1928 and the Great Depression shaped working class forms of modernism during the 1930s.
(Cover image: 'Acetylene Wielding' (1917) by C.R.W. Nevinson)
SELECTED REFERENCES W. H. Auden Octavia Butler LEWIS CARROLL, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1865) Chung Ling Soo (magician) T. S. Eliot WILLIAM EMPSON, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Types_of_Ambiguity EMPSON, Some Versions of Pastoral (1935) – https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/empson-style-from-despair Ford Madox Ford JOHN GAY, The Beggar’s Opera (1728) Lewis Grassic Gibbon – https://www.grassicgibbon.com WALTER GREENWOOD, Love on the Dole (1933) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIPubjjouaA J. B. S. Haldane – https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/makers-of-modern-genetics/digitised-archives/j-b-s-haldane Richard Hoggart NICK HUBBLE, 'Proletarian Autofiction of the 1930s' (2019) - https://socialhumanities.home.blog/2019/03/10/proletarian-autobiografiction-of-the-1930s SAMUEL HYNES, The Auden Generation (1976) – https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-auden-generation-by-samuel-hynes/ JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916); Ulysses (1922) D. H. LAWRENCE, ‘Odour of Chrysanthemums’ (1909) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odour_of_Chrysanthemums D. H. LAWRENCE, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Doris Lessing MARGARET LLEWELLYN DAVIES (ed.), Life as We Have Known It (1930) – https://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294981756 Charles Madge – http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_descriptions/madge.html Mass Observation – https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/09/11/surveillance-society NAOMI MITCHISON, We Have Been Warned (1935) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Mitchison BILL NAUGHTON, Alfie (1963) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/dec/06/thebestevernovelform Friedrich Nietzsche GEORGE ORWELL, The Road to Wigan Pier (1936); Homage to Catalonia (1938) GEORGE ORWELL, ‘The Writer in the Witness Box’ (1940) – https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-proletarian-writer Alan Partridge Jackson Pollock Proletkult Ann Quin Karl Radek – https://www.marxists.org/archive/radek/1934/sovietwritercongress.htm Lorna Sage Stephen Spender Agnes Smith – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2082201.An_Edge_of_the_Forest JOHN SOMMERFIELD, May Day (1936) – http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/njes/article/view/1262 August Strindberg Edward Upward – http://www.edwardupward.info/ H. G. Wells ELLEN WILKINSON, Clash (1929) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_(novel) Raymond Williams VIRGINIA WOOLF, Mrs. Dalloway (1925); Orlando (1928); The Years (1936); Three Guineas (1938)
Brian Eno's huge back catalogue of work as a solo musician, band member and producer goes back decades, including high-profile work with Roxy Music, Talking Heads, David Bowie, John Cale and many others. He is often credited with inventing ambient music, but this conversation between Juliet and Brian does not talk about the past. Instead, we focused on how Brian has adapted to new music, new technology, and neoliberalism, and what responsibilities artists have to acknowledge and use their cultural capital.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Works by Brian Eno Discreet Music (1975) Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) Spore (2008, video game soundtrack) - https://pitchfork.com/news/30187-brian-eno-makes-interactive-music-for-spore/ The Ship (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn1riJSHhkY Reflection (2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dwo-tvmEKhk Bloom (with Peter Chilvers) - http://www.generativemusic.com/bloom.html
Berlin Horse (dir. Malcolm Le Grice, 1970) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDj8Tc6259o Gavin Bryars, 'The Sinking of the Titanic' (1975, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oVMRADOq5s David Byrne & Brian Eno, 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts' (1981, LP) Anna Calvi Client Earth - https://www.clientearth.org/people/eno-brian/ Richard Dawkins DiEM25 - https://diem25.org/brian-eno-people-are-rethinking-what-democracy-means Mark Fisher (k-punk), 'Precarity and Paternalism' - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/011486.html Forensic Architecture - https://www.forensic-architecture.org gal-dem - http://gal-dem.com PAOLO GERBAUDO, The Digital Party (2019) - https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/ Stuart Hall Harmonia & Eno '76 - https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20947-complete-works Jon Hopkins Long Now Foundation - http://longnow.org/seminars/02003/nov/14/the-long-now/ Lowly, 'Baglæns' (2018, song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9ydgJenbQA Henri Matisse Media Reform Coalition - https://www.mediareform.org.uk/ Tom Rogerson, 'Finding Shore' (2017, LP) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxWMlK31Mpw Alexei Sayle Superflux - http://superflux.in Raymond Williams Liv Wynter - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/pamn9v/hero-of-the-week-liv-wynter-who-resigned-as-tate-artist-in-residence
The Calais "Jungle", as it became known, was a refugee camp that held 10,000 people from Syria, Somalia, Eritrea and elsewhere between January 2015 and October 2016. This week, Tom Overton talks to Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, about a new exhibition (https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/event/lande) and book that collects material, digital and visual artifacts from Calais, asking how these objects can help us understand the camp, and 21st century migration.
SELECTED REFERENCES Majid Adin - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/newpxd/the-refugee-who-smuggled-himself-out-of-the-camps-and-into-rocket-man Giorgio Agamben Hannah Arendt L'Auberge des Migrants - https://www.laubergedesmigrants.fr/en/home/ Banu Cennetoğlu, ‘The List’ (2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/banu-cennetoglu-interview-turkish-artist-the-list-europe-migrant-crisis Danny Dorling Michel Foucault Caroline Gregory (photographer) DAN HICKS & SARAH MALLET, Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond (2019) - https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/lande-the-calais-jungle-and-beyond Ashile Mbembe - https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-society-of-enmity NICHOLAS MIRZOEFF, The Appearance of Black Lives Matter (2017) - https://namepublications.org/item/2017/the-appearance-of-black-lives-matter/ Sue Partridge (arts activist)
Isabel Waidner is a writer and critical theorist who has published two works of fiction with Manchester-based independent publisher Dostoyevsky Wannabe, edited an anthology of exploratory queer literature entitled Liberating the Canon, and who - with artist Richard Porter of Pilot Press (https://pilotpress.tumblr.com) - curates the Queers Read This series at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts.
This week, new Suite (212) co-host Lara Alonso Corona asks Isabel about queer and working-class representation in 'experimental' writing, how useful such labels are, and what queer authors can take from a modernist canon that is largely white, male, cisgender, heterosexual and middle-class.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Works by Isabel Waidner Gaudy Bauble (2017) – https://dostoyevskywannabe.com/original/gaudy_bauble Liberating the Canon (editor, 2018) – https://www.dostoyevskywannabe.com/experiments/liberating_the_canon We Are Made of Diamond Stuff (2019) – https://www.dostoyevskywannabe.com/we_are_made_of_diamond_stuff/original
Mojisola Adebayo - https://mojisolaadebayo.co.uk Sara Ahmed - https://www.saranahmed.com Samuel Beckett Dodie Bellamy - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/interview-dodie-bellamy Jay Bernard - https://jaybernard.co.uk/home.html Dennis Cooper Robert Glück - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/06/new-narratives-origins-robert-gluck-documents-the-start-of-san-franciscos-new-narrative-scene B.S. JOHNSON, House Mother Normal (1971) - http://www.full-stop.net/2017/03/23/reviews/jc-sutcliffe/house-mother-normal-b-s-johnson/ James Joyce Franz Kafka Ann Quin - https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5298/rediscovering-britains-avant-garde Nisha Ramayya - http://www.nisharamayya.com Verity Spott - http://twotornhalves.blogspot.com Stranger Things (TV series) LINDA STUPART, Virus (2017) - https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/linda-stupart-interview Joanna Walsh – https://badaude.wixsite.com/joannawalsh
Born into a Jewish family in Moscow in 1971, Yevgeniy Fiks moved to New York in 1994. His conceptual art reacts to amnesia about the USSR in the post-Soviet space, resisting nostalgia and commodification in favour of recovering repressed histories, especially those of LGBT and Jewish people; he also looks at the relationship with the USSR and the USA before and during the Cold War, and at histories of the American left, suppressed since the McCarthy witch-hunts.
In this Suite (212) Extra, Juliet talks to Yevgeniy about his exhibition Mother Tongue at London’s Pushkin House from March-May 2019, dealing with the underground slang spoken by Russian gay men in the 1970s and 80s, and his wider practice.
SELECTED REFERENCES
PROJECTS BY YEVGENIY FIKS (https://yevgeniyfiks.com/) Song of Russia (2005-7) Lenin for Your Library (2007) Monitoring Lenin’s Sales on Amazon.com (2007) Communist Party USA (2007) The Communist Guide to New York City (2008) American Cold War Veterans’ Association (2009) A Gift to Birobidzhan (2009) Homosexuality is Stalin’s Atom Bomb to Destroy America (2012) Landscapes of the Jewish Autonomous Region (2012-16) Monument to Cold War Victory (2012-14) Anatoly (2014) Sovetish Kosmos, Yiddish Cosmos (2016) Soviet Moscow’s Yiddish-Gay Dictionary (2016) In Edenia, A City of the Future (2017) Mother Tongue (2018)
Guy Burgess FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1884/origin-family/index.htm Gay Laboratory Masha Gessen Kama Ginkas – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Ginkas Zinaida Gippius – https://www.rbth.com/literature/2014/11/20/a_life_unshackled_remembering_the_symbolist_poet_zinaida_gippius_41541.html Harry Hay – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/harry-hay-communist-mattachine-society-lgbtq DAN HEALEY, Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia (2001) – https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/307 Magnus Hirschfeld – https://minorliteratures.com/2018/05/17/berlins-third-sex Langston Hughes Nikita Kadan – http://nikitakadan.com Yevgeni Kharitonov – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Kharitonov_(poet) Vladimir Koslovsky – https://www.academia.edu/2074803/Between_lavender_and_light_blue_Negotiating_transnational_and_local_gay_identities_in_Russian MIKHAIL KUZMIN, Wings (1906) – http://chromajournal.blogspot.com/2007/09/review-wings-by-mikhail-kuzmin.html V. I. LENIN, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm Georgy Mamedov - https://soundcloud.com/suite-212/against-simple-answers-art-sexuality-and-society-in-kyrgyzstan Vladislav Mamyshev Monroe – https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/2849/vlad-mamyshev-monroe-new-exhibition-marilyn Dmitri Merezhkovsky – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Merezhkovsky Sergei Paradjanov – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/mar/13/sergei-paradjanov-films-gulag Queer in Space: Kollontai Communist Archive (dir. ShTAB, 2015) – http://www.frieze.info/article/juliet-jacques-school-theory-and-activisms-queer-space Rainbow Association (Moscow) Restricted Sensation (dir. Deimantas Narkevičius, 2011) – https://lux.org.uk/work/restricted-sensation Mykola Ridnyi – http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/ Paul Robeson SHEILA SAMPATH (ed.), Letters Lived: Radical Reflections, Revolutionary Paths (2013) – http://sheilasampath.ca/letters-lived-blog/2013/12/1/letters-lived-contributor-sheila-sampath Seekers of Happiness (dir. Vladimir Korsh, 1936) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026119/ GENNADI TRIFONOV, ‘Letter from Prison’ (1978) – https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1986/04/10/the-case-of-gennady-trifonov/ Harry Whyte – https://www.marxist.com/letter-to-stalin-can-a-homosexual-be-in-the-communist-party.htm Aleksandr Zaremba – http://andrejkoymasky.com/liv/fam/bioz1/zaremba01.html KALMAN ZINGMAN, Edenia (1918) – https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/8498/edenia-lost-yiddish-utopia-ukraine-afterlife-modern-day-kharkiv
Since his violent death in 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini remains internationally renowned as a filmmaker, but less known as a poet, journalist, critic and activist outside his native Italy. This week, Juliet talks to Italian author Daniela Cascella about Pasolini’s varied artistic practice, the persecution he suffered as an outspoken leftist and openly gay man, and the context of post-fascist, post-war Italy.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY PASOLINI
Articles ‘I Know’ (1974) - https://overland.org.au/2012/03/what-is-this-coup-detat-i-know/
Novels Hustlers (1955) A Violent Life (1959) Petrolio (1992) – http://movies2.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/reviews/970323.23eberstt.html
Films Accattone (1961) La Ricotta (1962) – http://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue7/HTML/ArticleMurphy.html The Gospel According to Matthew (1964) – https://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n06/michael-wood/at-the-movies Love Meetings (1965) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Meetings Theorem (1968) Medea (1969) Porcile (Pigsty, 1969) The Decameron (1971) The Canterbury Tales (1972) Arabian Nights (1974) Salò: 120 Days of Sodom (1975) – https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-lost-pasolini-interview
Poems ‘Gramsci’s Ashes’ (1954) – https://gramsciintheworld.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/gramscis-ashes.pdf ‘The PCI to Young People’ (1968) – https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/06/pier-paolo-pasolini-pci-communist-party
Bernardo Bertolucci Maria Callas ITALO CALVINO, Invisible Cities (1973) – https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-letters-of-italo-calvino-day-v DANIELA CASCELLA, ‘Faint Signals’ - https://minorliteratures.com/2018/09/07/faint-signals-of-the-imaginal-and-the-aural-of-speaking-with-the-dead-and-their-books-for-impossible-writing-daniela-cascella/ Ernesto de Martino – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_de_Martino MARQUIS DE SADE, 120 Days of Sodom (1785) – https://www.odaha.com/sites/default/files/120_days_of_sodom.pdf FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY, Demons (1872) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(Dostoevsky_novel) Death in Venice (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1971) – https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/oct/20/death-venice-arthouse DARIO FO, Accidental Death of an Anarchist (1970) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqKfwC70YZI Fuori! (Turin gay collective) Diamanda Galás, ‘Supplica a mia madre’ - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh4D3Gxk_jk André Gide Jean-Luc Godard Ugo Gregoretti Jacques Lacan Roberto Longhi – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Longhi La Lotta Continua (publication) - https://bigflameuk.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/lotta-continua MARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique – https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/mario-mieli-keep-treasure-in-my-arse Marianne Moore Alberto Moravia Nights of Cabiria (dir. Federico Fellini, 1957) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050783 Ezra Pound – http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/pier_paolo_pasolini_talks_and_reads_poetry_with_ezra_pound_1967_.html Stefano Rodotà – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefano_Rodotà RoGoPaG (various directors, 1963) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056171 Roberto Rossellini Jean-Paul Sartre August Strindberg Giovanni Tiso – https://bat-bean-beam.blogspot.com Lars von Trier Wu Ming Foundation – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/2719-the-police-vs-pasolini-pasolini-vs-the-police
Where, and how, does nature writing intersect with architectural criticism? Urban exploration? Hauntology? Nationalism and fascism? This week, Tom Overton talks to writer and Influx Press co-founder Gary Budden about how his collection 'Hollow Shores' blends nature writing and weird fiction, his collaborations with filmmaker and fellow Influx author Adam Scovell and illustrator Maxim Peter Griffin, how writers as aesthetically and politically diverse as Derek Jarman and Henry Williamson have represented the English landscape, and more.
SELECTED REFERENCES Robert Aickman – https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/burial-plots-robert-aickmans-eerily-ordinary-stories DARRAN ANDERSON, Imaginary Cities (2015) – https://www.influxpress.com/imaginary-cities GARY BUDDEN (ed.), Acquired for Development By … A Hackney Anthology (2012) – https://www.influxpress.com/acquired-for-development-by GARY BUDDEN, Hollow Shores (2017) – https://deadinkbooks.com/product/hollow-shores-paperback GARY BUDDEN & MAXIM GRIFFIN, The White Heron Beneath the Reactor – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1194866830/make-100-the-white-heron-beneath-the-reactor KIT CALESS, Spoon’s Carpets: An Appreciation (2016) – https://wetherspoonscarpets.tumblr.com/about Ramsey Campbell – http://www.ramseycampbell.com BRIAN DILLON, The Great Explosion (2015) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/03/the-great-explosion-brian-dillon-review-kent-disaster-gunpowder-war The Garden (dir. Derek Jarman, 1990) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099634 Greenteeth (dir. Adam Scovell, 2017) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypFbKpxzF1c NIALL GRIFFITHS, Grits (2000) – https://www.influxpress.com/blog/the-anti-canon-series-niall-griffiths NIALL GRIFFITHS, Kelly and Victor (2002) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/27/fiction.reviews James Herbert – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herbert Tim Jarvis – https://timothyjjarvis.wordpress.com TOM JEFFREYS, Signal Failure: London to Birmingham, HS2 on Foot (2017) – http://www.tom-jeffreys.co.uk/signal-failure Jubilee (dir. Derek Jarman, 1977) – https://thequietus.com/articles/23978-derek-jarman-jubilee-review-anniversary-bfi The Last of England (dir. Derek Jarman, 1987) – http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2014/11/in-profile-derek-jarmans-the-last-of-england-1988 PAUL LEWIS & ROB EVANS, Undercover: The True Story of Britain’s Secret Police (2013) – https://www.theguardian.com/uk/undercover-with-paul-lewis-and-rob-evans Arthur Machen – http://www.arthurmachen.org.uk HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby-Dick (1851) - https://voices.clickhole.com/the-time-i-spent-on-a-commercial-whaling-ship-totally-c-1825124286 D. A. NORTHWOOD, Judderman (2018) – http://www.newlexicons.com/blog/2017/11/21/da-northwood-the-eden-book-society Sátántángo (dir. Béla Tarr, 1994) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111341 ADAM SCOVELL, Mothlight (2019) – https://www.influxpress.com/mothlight W. G. Sebald RICHARD SMYTH, ‘The Dark Side of Nature Writing’ (2018) – https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5331/the-dark-side-of-nature-writing David Southwell (Hookland project) – https://hookland.wordpress.com Werckmeister Harmonies (dir. Béla Tarr, 2000) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/apr/19/artsfeatures ELEY WILLIAMS, Attrib. (2017) – https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/01/attrib-and-other-stories-by-eley-williams-review HENRY WILLIAMSON, Tarka the Otter (1927) - https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/tarka-the-otter-as-an-allegory-of-war
Best known as a poet in his native Lithuania, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) became a titan of US underground cinema after moving to New York in 1949. This week, Juliet talks to filmmaker/artist Chiara Ambrosio and curator/critic Herb Shellenberger about Mekas' life, work and legacy.
SELECTED REFERENCES
Films by Jonas Mekas Film Magazine of the Arts (1963) - http://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/jonas-mekas-film-magazine-of-the-arts Walden: Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/dvd/diaries-notes-and-sketches-also-known-as-walden Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069172 Lost Lost Lost (1976) - https://vimeo.com/217911753 Self-Portrait (1980) The Education of Sebastian or Egypt Regained (1992) - https://vimeo.com/40317134 Zefiro Torna (1992) - http://retentionalfinitude.blogspot.com/2010/05/jonas-mekas-zefiro-torna-1992.html As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) - https://variety.com/2001/film/reviews/as-i-was-moving-ahead-occasionally-i-saw-brief-glimpses-of-beauty-1200467427 A Letter from Greenpoint (2005)- https://vimeo.com/229569417 Paris Hilton (2007) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3i8VBich1k
Texts by Jonas Mekas Anti-100 Years of Cinema - http://www.incite-online.net/jonasmekas.html Conversations with Filmmakers (2018) - https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/conversations-with-filmmakers-bremer-and-storz-publication-171018 I Had Nowhere to Go (1991) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9GWqYqPbew I Seem to Live (2019) - http://jonasmekasfilms.com/books/index.php?book=I_seem_to_live Scrapbook of the Sixties (2010)
2002 (dir. C. Spencer Yeh, 2015) - https://issueprojectroom.org/event/c-spencer-yeh-video Robert Aldrich Kenneth Anger - https://www.kennethanger.org/ Anthology Film Archives - http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/ Stan Brakhage - http://www.ubu.com/papers/tyler_parker-stan_brakhage.html Bread and Puppet Theater - http://breadandpuppet.org/about-bread-and-puppet/other-links/peter-schumann James Broughton Un Chant d'amour (dir. Jean Genet, 1950) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RN_IDtPcNE Shirley Clarke - http://www.projectshirley.com Tony Conrad - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Conrad Maya Deren - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/maya-deren-meshes-of-the-afternoon Film Culture (journal) - http://www.ubu.com/papers/film_culture.html Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin - http://www.artbook.com/9783959052023.html Flaming Creatures (dir. Jack Smith, 1963) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/cteq/flaming/ For Life, Against the War (dir. various, 1967) - http://flahertyseminar.org/life-against-war Allen Ginsberg Beverly Grant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Grant_(actress) Ken Jacobs - https://vimeo.com/kenjacobs Peter Kubelka - https://offscreen.com/view/interview_kubelka Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band - https://www.discogs.com/artist/1013031-Jim-Kweskin-The-Jug-Band Jacques-Henri Lartigue - https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/print-sales/our-artists/jacques-henri-lartigue George Maciunas - http://georgemaciunas.com/about Gregory Markopoulos - https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2018/gregory-markopoulos Marie Menken - https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-220-marie-menken Hermann Nitsch - http://www.nitsch.org/index-en.html Pull My Daisy (dir. Robert Frank & Alfred Leslie, 1959) - https://vimeo.com/92403607 Nicholas Ray Ron Rice - https://www.villagevoice.com/2018/08/23/the-shooting-star-cinema-of-ron-rice/ Shadows (dir. John Cassavetes, 1959) - http://people.bu.edu/rcarney/cassoncass/shadows.shtml Shoah (dir. Claude Lanzmann, 1985) P. Adams Sitney Susan Sontag Stranger Than Paradise (dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1984) Thanatopsis (dir. Em Emshwiller, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcVAPnFf20Y HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden 1854) Amos Vogel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Vogel Andy Warhol Walt Whitman
Since his untimely death in January 1950, aged 46, George Orwell has been turned into a secular saint, with his Cold War-era novels Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four making Orwell - a democratic socialist - a hero to anti-communists across the world, but especially in England. This week, Juliet talks to critic Fatema Ahmed and writer Owen Hatherley about how and why Orwell became so revered, whether this reverence is useful, and how his writing might be reclaimed or reassessed by the contemporary British left.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY GEORGE ORWELL Animal Farm (1945) Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) Homage to Catalonia (1938) ‘The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius’ (1941) - https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/the-lion-and-the-unicorn-socialism-and-the-english-genius/ ‘My Country Right or Left’ (1940) - https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/my-country-right-or-left/ Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) ‘Politics and the English Language’ (1946) - http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit The Road to Wigan Pier (1936) ‘Why I Write’ (1946) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Write
Theodor W. Adorno W. H. Auden Billy Bragg Russell Brand E. H. Carr Charlie Chaplin Cyril Connolly ROBERT CONQUEST, ‘George Orwell’ (1969) - http://misa-n-torpe.blogspot.com/2011/11/robert-conquest-on-george-orwell.html ISAAC DEUTSCHER, ‘1984 – The Mysticism of Cruelty’ - https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1955/1984.htm T. S. Eliot - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/26/ts-eliot-rejection-george-orwell-animal-farm-british-library-online Michael Foot - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/mar/21/past.comment Eric Gill FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK, The Road to Serfdom (1944) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, Four Absentees (1960) - http://malkintowersbookblog.blogspot.com/2014/03/four-absentees-rayner-heppenstall.html CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, Why Orwell Matters (2002) - https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/29/books/the-independent-of-london.html Christopher Isherwood Arthur Koestler Wyndham Lewis Hugh MacDiarmid Norman Ian MacKenzie Kingsley Martin - https://spartacus-educational.com/TUmartin.htm Malcolm Muggeridge @OrwellFan - https://twitter.com/Orwell_Fan Steven Poole - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/17/my-problem-with-george-orwell Anthony Powell Paul Robeson Michael Sayers - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-sayers-writer-whose-career-never-recovered-from-being-blacklisted-in-the-united-states-2032080.html Stephen Spender Dylan Thomas Robert Webb - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/nov/05/russell-brand-robert-webb-revolution RAYMOND WILLIAMS, Orwell (1971)
Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture (1968) was an unforgettably idiosyncratic document of Sixties counter-culture, looking at how the nuclear threat that followed World War II had shaped the mass consciousness. This week, Tom Overton talks to Douglas Field (author of All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin) and Jamie Sutcliffe about Strange Attractor Press' recent reissue of Bomb Culture (http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/bomb-culture-50th-anniversary-edition/), and Nuttall's place within various Sixties art scenes.
SELECTED REFERENCES a-or-ist - https://cargocollective.com/aorist Antonin Artaud Antony Balch - https://transmediale.de/content/antony-balch James Baldwin The Beatles Charles Bukowski William S. Burroughs - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/burroughs-in-london/ John Cage Robert Carlyle Centre 42 (Arnold Wesker) - http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/about-us/history-of-the-roundhouse/1960-1970-an-arts-centre-emerges/ Bob Cobbing - http://ubu.com/film/cobbing.html Gregory Corso - https://www.litkicks.com/BOMB Robert Creeley - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-creeley The Doors Lawrence Ferlinghetti Maria Fusco - http://mariafusco.net/ William Gibson Allen Ginsberg Maurice Girodias - https://bookblast.com/blog/spotlight-maurice-girodias-olympia-press-indie-publishers-remembered/ The Goon Show Jimi Hendrix Adrian Henri - https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/adrian-henri Michael Horovitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Horovitz The International Times B. S. Johnson - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/youre-human-like-the-rest-of-them-the-films-of-b-s-johnson/ Jay Jeff Jones - https://twitter.com/jayjeffjones Asger Jorn - http://www.museumjorn.dk/en/collections/about-asger-jorn/ Jack Kerouac R. D. Laing John Latham - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-latham-1470 DORIS LESSING, The Golden Notebook (1962) DORIS LESSING, The Good Terrorist (1985) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/dec/03/fiction.dorislessing NORMAN MAILER, Advertisements for Myself (1959) NORMAN MAILER, The White Negro (1957) - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-white-negro-fall-1957 André Masson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Masson Barry Miles - http://barrymiles.co.uk Eric Mottram - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-professor-eric-mottram-1568685.html My Own Mag (Reality Studio website) - https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/my-own-mag/ Moving Times A. D. Nuttall - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-a-d-nuttall-435468.html JEFF NUTTALL, Snipe’s Spinster (1975) The People’s Show Project Sigma - http://realitysandwich.com/128311/alexander_trocchi_project_sigma/ John Rowan - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rowan_(psychologist) VALERIE SOLANAS, SCUM Manifesto (1967) - http://kunsthallezurich.ch/sites/default/files/scum_manifesto.pdf Iain Sinclair ALEXANDER TROCCHI, 'A Revolutionary Proposal' - http://www.notbored.org/invisible.html FRED TURNER, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006) - https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/25conn.html The War Game (dir. Peter Watkins, 1965) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02zy7nt McKENZIE WARK, The Beach Beneath the Street (2013) - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/05/spectacle-disintegration Arnold Wesker Carl Weissner - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Weissner Wholly Communion (dir. Peter Whitehead, 1965) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1379899/index.html The World is Not Enough (dir. Michael Apted, 1999)
The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 inspired artists, writers and filmmakers at home and abroad to make work in support of the struggle against fascism and, in some cases, to fight for the Spanish Republic. This week, Juliet talks to writer/translator Lara Alonso Corona about the various reactions to the war, General Franco's victory and consolidation of fascist power in Spain, from before the conflict began in July 1936 to the present.
SELECTED REFERENCES Rafael Alberti - https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/oct/29/guardianobituaries W. H. AUDEN, Spain 1937 - https://sites.google.com/a/upr.edu/modernpoetry/Student-Blogs/ivan-andres-rodriguez/spainbywhauden Azorin (José Martínez Ruiz) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Martínez_Ruiz José Bergamín - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Bergamín Blockade (dir. William Dieterle, 1938) - https://www.timeout.com/london/film/blockade Luisa Carnés - http://www.newspanishbooks.com/author/luisa-carnes Luis Cernuda - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Cernuda Cyril Connolly Salvador Dalí The Devil's Backbone (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2001) - http://wickedhorror.com/features/devils-backbone-pans-laybrinth-and-why-guillermo-del-toro-is-fixated-on-the-spanish-civil-war España 1936 (dir. Luis Buñuel, 1937) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028838 Federico García Lorca - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/23/federico-garcia-lorca-spanish-poet-killed-orders-spanish-civil-war Ramón Gómez de la Serna - https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-ramon-de-la-serna.html Luis de Góngora - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_de_Góngora Francisco Goya The Guernica Tree (dir. Fernando Arrabal, 1975) - http://filmepidemic.blogspot.com/2008/03/guernica-tree-arrabal-1975.html Dan Hancox on the Valley of the Fallen: https://amuse.vice.com/en_us/article/wj3p3y/valley-of-the-fallen-spain-fascism ERNEST HEMINGWAY, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940) Miguel Hernández - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/miguel-hernandez Langston Hughes Ispanya (dir. Esfir Shub, 1939) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgGqYueTEnQ Land and Freedom (dir. Ken Loach, 1995) Ramiro de Maetzu - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_de_Maeztu Marujo Mallo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maruja_Mallo ANDRÉ MALRAUX, L'Espoir (1937) FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI, 'Founding and Manifesto of the Futurists' (1909) Mientras dure la guerra (dir. Alejandro Amenábar, 2019) - https://cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/355061 Joan Miró, 'Aidez l'Espagne' and 'The Reaper' (1937) - https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/hymn-freedom JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET, The Dehumanisation of Art (1927) - https://brooklynrail.org/special/AD_REINHARDT/artists-on-ad/the-dehumanization-of-art-jose-ortega-y-gasset-and-ad-reinhardt GEORGE ORWELL, Homage to Catalonia (1938) - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/george-orwell-spain-barcelona-may-days Panic movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_Movement Pan's Labyrinth (dir. Guillermo del Toro, 2006) Octavio Paz Roland Penrose - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-roland-penrose-1755 Pablo Picasso, 'Guernica' (1937) - https://www.pablopicasso.org/guernica.jsp Revista de Occidente (journal) - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Revista-de-Occidente Spanish Earth (dir. Joris Ivens, 1937) - http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/ithe_spanish_earthi_written_and_narrated_by_ernest_hemingway.html Stephen Spender José Val del Omar - http://www.valdelomar.com/home.php?lang=en Miguel de Unamuno - https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-unamuno.html Ramón del Valle-Inclán - https://www.classicspanishbooks.com/20th-cent-valleinclan.html Viva la muerte (dir. Fernando Arrabal, 1971) - https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/26/archives/screen-arrabals-viva-la-muerte.html Maria Zambrano - http://www.metropolism.com/en/features/33449_who_is_mar_a_zambrano
Since he became Prime Minister of Turkey in 2002, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rule has become increasingly authoritarian, with his treatment of journalists, writers and artists causing international concern. Juliet talks to art critic Fisun Güner (https://fisunguner.com) and Tuna Erdem of the Istanbul Queer Art Collective (https://www.istanbulqueerartcollective.co.uk) about how the situation has worsened since the Occupy Gezi protests in 2013 and the failed military coup of 2016, why Erdoğan's government has targeted the art world, and how artists might fight back.
SELECTED REFERENCES Ahmet Altan: https://pen.org/advocacy-case/ahmet-mehmet-altan Halil Altindere: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/halil-altindere-wonderland-2013/ Yüksel Arslan: http://www.turkishculture.org/whoiswho/yuksel-arslan-1007.htm Nicolas Bourriaud: http://www.artnews.com/2018/05/09/nicolas-bourriaud-curate-2019-istanbul-biennial/ Nuri Bilge Ceylan: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149196 Diren Coşkun: https://lgbtinewsturkey.com/2018/02/08/lgbti-activist-kivilcim-arat-joins-diren-coskuns-death-fast Nilüfer Demir: http://100photos.time.com/photos/nilufer-demir-alan-kurdi SELAHATTIN DEMIRTAŞ, Dawn (2017): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/23/writing-opposition-turkey-grim-tradition-publishing Zehra Doğan: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/1319540-1319540 Latifa Echakhch: https://frieze.com/article/latifa-echakhch Bülent Ersoy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bülent_Ersoy Esmeray: https://pen-international.org/news/interview-esmeray-juliet-jacques Ara Güler: http://www.araguler.com.tr/aboutaraguler.html Asena Günal: https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2016/10/turkey-art-troubled-times/ Erdum Gündüz - 'Standing Man': https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-22962526/turkey-s-standing-man-silent-protest-spreads Nâzım Hikmet: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/nazim-hikmet House of Wisdom (exhibition): https://collectivecukurcuma.com/2018/07/27/house-of-wisdom-i-nottingham/ Osman Kavala: http://www.depoistanbul.net/en/announcement-free-osman-kavala/ Pinar Marul: http://tzvetnik.online/portfolio_page/pinar-marul-at-oj Çiğdem Mater: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çiğdem_Mater HENRY MILLER, Tropic of Capricorn (1934) North (dir. Çayan Demirel, 2015): https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2015/apr/20/turkey-censorship-north-documentary-istanbul-film-festival-kurdistan-workers-party Orhan Pamuk: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/23/books.turkey Renzo Piano: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/istanbul-modern-renzo-piano-1233959 ELIF ŞAFAK, The Bastard of Istanbul (2007): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/29/fiction.features1 belit sağ: https://frieze.com/article/turkish-video-artist-and-activist-asks-how-do-you-make-story-disappear Tahribad-i İsayan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx36mnZvEO0 AHMET HAMDI TANPINAR, The Time Regulation Institute (1962): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/28/ahmet-hamdi-tanpinar-the-time-regulation-institute-turkey-western-time Ali Taptık: http://www.alitaptik.com Ahmet Telli: https://www.turkishminute.com/2018/12/21/intellectuals-launch-petition-to-support-poet-harassed-at-university-event/ Ece Temelkuran: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ece_Temelkuran Yoğunluk (Istanbul art collective): http://www.yogunluk.org/en/team.html
Photographer Markéta Luskačová (http://www.marketaluskacova.com) began her career in Czechoslovakia around the time of the Prague Spring, and moved to the UK in the mid-1970s, when she began to capture London's markets. With her work currently on display at Tate Britain (https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/spotlights/marketa-luskacova), Tom Overton asks her about her life and work.
SELECTED REFERENCES Louis Armstrong John Berger on Markéta Luskačová - http://www.marketaluskacova.com/publications/11-to-remember-2016/11-to-remember-2016-john-berger Bertolt Brecht in Berlin (performance) Max Brod Henri Cartier-Bresson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Cartier-Bresson Martine Franck - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/aug/19/martine-franck Franz Kafka Siirka-Liisa Konttinen - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sirkka-liisa-konttinen-9246 Josef Koudelka - https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2015/09/29/tom-overton/nationality-doubtful/ Otomar Krejča - https://www.radio.cz/en/section/news/theatre-director-otomar-krejca-dies-at-87 Martin Parr - https://www.martinparrfoundation.org/ Rainer Maria Rilke Franz H. Wurm (poet/writer)
In our final show of 2018, co-hosts Juliet and Tom discuss literature, films, theatre and exhibitions that made an impact on them throughout the year, as well as what they anticipate in 2019.
SELECTED REFERENCES 120 BPM (dir. Robin Campillo, 2017) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6135348/ John Ash - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ash_(writer) KEVIN BREATHNACH, Tunnel Vision (2019) - http://kbreathnach.tumblr.com/post/162864960815/tunnel-vision SAM BYERS, Perfidious Albion (2018) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/hysterical-realism-a-review-of-perfidious-albion-by-sam-byers/ Cold War (dir. Pawel Pawlikowski, 2018) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6543652/ Jean-Baptiste Del Amo The Encounter (Complicité) - http://www.complicite.org/productions/theencounter ANNIE ERNAUX, The Years (2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/22/the-years-annie-ernaux-review Faces, Places (dir. Agnès Varda & J.R., 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/sep/20/faces-places-review-agnes-varda-jr-road-movie-documentary Zoya Falkova - http://romovayababa.com/en/ The Film of Kyiv (dir. Oleksiy Radynski, 2017-18) - https://www.ica.art/on/learning/oleksiy-radynski-film-kyiv Gare St. Lazare Players - http://garestlazareireland.com/home/ HEIKE GEISSLER, Seasonal Associate (2018) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/seasonal-associate Gran Fury - https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2018/10/gran-fury/ In the Intense Now (dir. João Moreira Salles, 2017) Joan Jonas - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/13/joan-jonas-review-tate-modern JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) ANDREA LAWLER, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (2017) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/gender-bending-the-body-on-andrea-lawlors-paul-takes-the-form-of-a-mortal-girl/ Fernand Léger - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/25/fernand-leger-new-times-new-pleasures-tate-liverpool-adrian-searle VICTORIA LOMASKO, Other Russias (2017) - https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/listening-to-ordinary-russians-by-drawing-them-one-by-one Daria Martin - https://vimeo.com/287699189 Raymond Mason - https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/obituary-raymond-mason McDermott & McGough, Oscar Wilde Temple - https://www.oscarwildetemple.org/ Metahaven - https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/metahaven-version-history-exhibition-world-mental-health-day-101018 Jean Mohr - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/15/jean-mohr-obituary More of an Avalanche (Wysing) - http://www.wysingartscentre.org/archive/exhibitions/more_of_an_avalanche/2018 NADA: Act 3 - The Exhibition (dir. Jasmina Cibic, 2017) - http://jasminacibic.org/projects/nada-act-iii-the-exhibition/ Penalty (dir. Kiriil Protsenko, 2005) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpZxjXU5taE Phantom Thread (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/michael-wood/at-the-movies Sophie Podolski - https://frieze.com/article/everything-permitted-sophie-podolskis-poetic-exuberance RICHARD POWER SAYEED, 1997: The Future That Never Happened (2017) - https://novaramedia.com/2017/11/03/the-future-that-never-was-1997-and-after/ Primas (dir. Laura Bari, 2017) - https://womenandhollywood.com/hot-docs-2018-women-directors-meet-laura-bari-primas-c62bc551f3f/ Charlotte Prodger - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/04/iphone-film-maker-charlotte-prodger-wins-2018-turner-prize Ann Quin JORDY ROSENBERG, Confessions of the Fox (2018) - https://lithub.com/confessions-of-the-fox/ Oxana Shachko ADELLE STRIPE, Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/18/black-teeth-brilliant-smile-adelle-stripe-review That Rush! (dir. Isaac Julien, 1995) Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven - http://www.amvk.be/ The Work (dir. Gethin Aldous & Jairus McLeary, 2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/10/the-work-review-folsom-prison Hamlet Zinkovsky - https://tinyletter.com/zinovievletter/letters/what-are-we-looking-for-here-or-an-afternoon-in-pripyat
Nature writing has often been white and male, and at times explicitly fascist. What would it mean to diversify the genre, in terms of race and gender? This week, Tom Overton talks to Jessica J. Lee, editor of The Willowherb Review (https://www.thewillowherbreview.com) about the journal and her book 'Turning: A Swimming Memoir' (2017), as well as her collaboration with The People's Forest project (https://wfculture19.co.uk/peoplesforest) and how we might imagine different kinds of nature writing.
SELECTED REFERENCES Alliance for Freshwater Life - https://allianceforfreshwaterlife.org/ MARGARET ATWOOD, Surfacing (1972) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/sep/20/fiction.margaretatwood Gary Budden - http://www.newlexicons.com/about CATHERINE BUNI, ‘Towards a Wider View of Nature Writing’ (LARB, 2016) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/toward-a-wider-view-of-nature-writing Carolyn Finney - http://carolynfinney.com/about.html THEODOR FONTANE, Rambles Through the March of Brandenburg - https://www.roughguides.com/destinations/europe/germany/berlin-and-brandenburg/theodor-fontane-and-his-brandenburg-wanderings JESSICA J. LEE, Turning (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/02/turning-swimming-memoir-jessica-j-lee-review Ursula K. LeGuin ANNA LOWENHAUPT TSING, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/19/mushroom-end-world-anna-lowenhaupt-tsing-review Ingrid Pollard – ‘Pastoral Interlude’ (1988) - http://www.ingridpollard.com/pastoral-interlude.html Lauret Savoy – https://www.mtholyoke.edu/people/lauret-savoy Richard Smyth, ‘The Dark Side of Nature Writing’ - https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/5331/the-dark-side-of-nature-writing Unearthly (BBC radio documentary) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tds6x HENRY WILLIAMSON, Tarka the Otter (1927) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Williamson Dorothy Wordsworth - https://fivebooks.com/best-books/william-dorothy-wordsworth-lucy-newlyn William Wordsworth
Recorded live in Birmingham during Grand Union’s ‘Ways of Learning’ exhibition, this episode of Suite (212) Extra discusses queer consciousness-raising. Juliet talks to writer/artist Huw Lemmey about LGBTQI+ activism before and after the Stonewall riots of June 1969 in the US and western Europe; the use of direct action and think-ins by the Gay Liberation Front and others; how AIDS and Section 28 changed queer art and activism; the development of trans theory in the 1990s; and the state of queer politics and creativity today.
SELECTED REFERENCES Travis Alabanza - http://travisalabanza.co.uk Kenneth Anger Penny Arcade (performance artist) - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/juliet-jacques/2012/06/penny-arcade-someone-always-queer Army of Lovers (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1979) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078794 HARRY BENJAMIN, The Transsexual Phenomenon (1967) Jay Bernard - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore - https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/ Imogen Binnie - https://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/04/02/nevada-a-novel-by-imogen-binnie/ KATE BORNSTEIN, Gender Outlaw (1994) - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kate-bornstein/gender-outlaw/ Lee Brewer & Bunny Eisenhower City of Lost Souls (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1983) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/returning-to-the-city-of-lost-souls Come Out (Gay Liberation Front magazine) Contrapoints - https://www.theverge.com/tech/2018/8/24/17689090/contrapoints-youtube-natalie-wynn Kenny Everett Rainer Werner Fassbinder LESLIE FEINBERG, Stone Butch Blues (1993) - http://www.lesliefeinberg.net FHAR (Front for Homosexual Revolutionary Action) Fierce Pussy - https://fiercepussy.org/ Ray Filar - https://twitter.com/rayfilar Diamanda Galás Gender Trash from Hell (zine) - https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/xg94hp65x Gender Troublemakers (dir. Xanthra Philippa & Mirha-Soleil Ross, 1993) Henry Gerber - http://chicagolgbthalloffame.org/gerber-henry Allen Ginsberg Gran Fury - https://hyperallergic.com/46881/gran-fury-read-my-lips-80-wse-nyu Sunil Gupta – ‘‘Pretended’ Family Relationships’ (1988-89) Keith Haring Harry Hay - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay Magnus Hirschfeld Homocult (1990s UK queer group) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11936213-queer-with-class David Hoyle - https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/vb349b/the-parallel-universe-of-david-hoyle It is Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1971) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/house/tags/73387-it-is-not-the-homosexual-who-is-perverse-but-the-society-in-which-he-lives JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) LaJohn Joseph - http://www.lajohnjoseph.com/ Larry Kramer - https://www.poz.com/article/course-larry-kramer-believes-aids-worse-now-ever LSD - http://archivo-t.net/portfolio/1995-%C2%B7-menstruosidades/ Robert Mapplethorpe MARIO MIELI, Elements of a Homosexual Critique (1977) Zanele Muholi My Beautiful Launderette (dir. Stephen Frears, 1985) Pier Paolo Pasolini The Passage (band) - https://thepassage.co.uk/texts/andertons_hall.html Lazlo Pearlman Casey Plett Positiv and Silence = Death (dir. Rosa von Praunheim, 1990) PAUL B. PRECIADO, Testo Junkie (2008) Pride (dir. Matthew Warchus, 2014) Nat Raha Ron Rice Ignacio Rivera Sylvia Rivera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QiigzZCEtQ Round the Horne (BBC radio series) Vito Russo Richard Scott JULIA SERANO, Excluded (2013) SANDY STONE, ‘The “Empire” Strikes Back: A Post-Transsexual Manifesto’ (1987) Screaming Queens (dir. Susan Stryker & Victor Silverman, 2008) Jack Smith Tim Peaks: Farron Walk With Me (radio play, 2018) ISABEL WAIDNER (ed.), Liberating the Canon (2018) We Have Rather Been Invaded (dir. Ed Webb-Ingall, 2016) Oscar Wilde Eley Williams Kenneth Williams David Wojnarowicz Zaj (Spanish Fluxus group) - https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/zaj
Much of the Western Front fighting in World War I took place in France, yet the cultural legacy of the war in France remains under-explored in the UK. This week, Juliet talks to Eric Robertson (Royal Holloway) and Peter Read (University of Kent) about how the experience of the war affected the Cubist and Surrealist movements and the development of French film, pushing some artists towards traditionalism, and others towards the avant-garde.
SELECTED REFERENCES L’Affaire Dreyfus (dir. Georges Méliès, 1899) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_fbOIgvYsY NORMAN ANGELL, The Great Illusion (1909) GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, Calligrammes (1918) - https://ubutext.memoryoftheworld.org/Apollinaire_Calligrams.pdf GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE, ‘Ocean of Earth’ - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58343/ocean-of-earth Louis Aragon - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louis-aragon Jean (Hans) Arp Antonin Artaud - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud Hugo Ball HENRI BARBUSSE, Le Feu (1917) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/nov/13/barbusse-feu-under-fire Maurice Barrès - http://www.dreyfus.culture.fr/en/bio/bio-html-maurice-barres.htm Charles Baudelaire The Birth of a Nation (dir. D. W. Griffith, 1915) Georges Braque André Breton - http://www.surrealists.co.uk/breton.php Cabiria (dir. Giovanni Pastrone, 1914) BLAISE CENDRARS, J’ai tué (I Have Killed, 1918) - https://literaryabsolute.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/3-0e28093bc-i_killed.pdf Salvador Dalí Sonia Delaunay André Derain Robert Desnos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Desnos Sergei Diaghilev Roland Dorgelès - https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/dorgeles_roland Georges Duhamel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Duhamel Paul Éluard - https://www.shmoop.com/surrealism/paul-eluard-author.html David Gascoyne (Surrealist poet) La Grande Illusion (dir. Jean Renoir, 1937) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/greatest-films-all-time/great-escape-la-grande-illusion Joris-Karl Huysmans Auguste & Louis Lumière J’Accuse (dir. Abel Gance, 1919) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2009/dvd/abel-gance-jaccuse-la-roue/ Max Jacob Jean Jaurès Fernand Léger - http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com/2014/06/war-artist-fernand-leger.html René Magritte Stéphane Mallarmé Napoléon (dir. Abel Gance, 1927) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/napoleon-highlights-abel-gance-silent-film Ron Padgett Parade (ballet, 1917) - http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-1917-ballet-parade-created-by-erik-satie-pablo-picasso-jean-cocteau.html BENJAMIN PÉRET, ‘Little Song of the Maimed’ - https://movehimintothesun.wordpress.com/2011/02/15/little-song-of-the-maimed-benjamin-peret/ Pablo Picasso Arthur Rimbaud René Schickele - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Schickele Gino Severini - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Severini GEORGES SOREL, The Illusion of Progress (1908) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Sorel Philippe Soupault - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-beautiful-space-that-slips-away-philippe-soupault-and-the-french-avant-garde/ Tristan Tzara - http://www.dramainthehood.net/2013/08/the-gas-heart/ PAUL VALÉRY, La Jeune Parque (1917) - https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/251734/paul-valery-and-the-last-centennial-of-1917 Verdun: Visions d’histoire (dir. Léon Poirier, 1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDC1Z8Pj0e8 Die Weißen Blätter (German journal) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Weißen_Blätter JAY WINTER, Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning (1995) - https://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/25 Wooden Crosses (dir. Raymond Bernard, 1932) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/26/philip-french-classic-dvd-wooden-crosses-raymond-bernard ÉMILE ZOLA, Germinal (1885) and J’Accuse (1898) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/zola/1898/jaccuse.htm
Why make a political arts programme? In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, hosts Juliet Jacques and Tom Overton discuss today's arts broadcasting and left-wing podcast scenes, and the place of Suite (212) and Resonance 104.4fm within it; how British modernist writers worked with TV and radio; how mainstream media leftists fought to establish a tradition of radical but popular cultural criticism; and plans for future shows, including a call for Gunnersaurus to come on Suite (212).
SELECTED REFERENCES Larry Achiampong - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk Battleship Potemkin (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) Walter Benjamin Anya Berger - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins John Berger Joseph Beuys Ernst Bloch Café Calcio - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/cafe-calcio/ Hélène Cixous Jean Cocteau JONATHAN COE, Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson (2004) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jul/10/biography.jonathancoe CYRIL CONNOLLY, Enemies of Promise (1938) Adam Curtis - http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis Douglas Davis - https://www.moma.org/artists/40384 The Fall (group) Good Morning Mr Orwell (dir. Nam June Paik, 1984) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIQLhyDIjtI Rayner Heppenstall - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/ Sheila Heti The Hooting Yard on the Air - https://www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/playlists/hooting-yard/ Hour of the Furnaces (dir. Fernando Solanas, 1968) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/greatest-films-all-time-essays/light-my-fire-hour-furnaces Ignota Press In Our Time (BBC radio) Influx Press B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (ITV, 1972) JAMES JOYCE, Ulysses (1922) JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/64/the-great-northern-morlock-hunt Chris Kraus Kusama’s Self-Obliteration (dir. Jud Yalkut, 1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE Deborah Levy - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/07/things-i-dont-want-know-powerful-feminist-response-orwells-why-i-write Christopher Logue - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Logue London Film-Makers’ Co-op Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (dir. Mark Achbar & Pete Wintonick, 1992) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrBQEAM3rE So Mayer Jonathan Meades - https://vimeo.com/meadesshrine Media Democracy - https://soundcloud.com/media-democracy-pod Bill Morrison Oli Mould Simon Munnery’s Experimental Half Hour (Resonance FM show) The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0 New Socialist - https://newsocialist.org.uk/people-are-intelligent-and-we-shouldnt-assume-otherwise/ Novara Media Clive Nwonka Oasis Oberhausen festival - http://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/oberhausen-film-festival/ Only Artists (BBC radio) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6wnhLqJqVE GEORGE ORWELL, Animal Farm (1945) Jordan Peterson - https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-194-fck-12-feat-shuja-haider-and-elon-musk-31818 Politics Theory Other - https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother Jacques Prévert Project O. Ann Quin Reel Politik - https://soundcloud.com/reelpolitikpodcast JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract (1762) MARC SAPORTA, Composition No. 1 (1962) - https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maybe-you-should-start-again/ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Richard III (c.1593) So Solid Crew The Spice Girls David Stubbs Suite (212) (dir. Nam June Paik, 1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212 JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Football (2018) - https://www.ft.com/content/a65b540c-1767-11e6-b197-a4af20d5575e JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Zidane’s Melancholy (2007) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/133790326925/zidanes-melancholy-by-jean-philippe-toussaint Turn! Turn! Turn! (dir. Jud Yalkut, 1966) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXB-DlrQub0 The War Game (dir. Peter Watkins, 1965) Ways of Seeing (dir. Mike Dibb, 1972) Rosie Wilby - https://www.rosiewilby.com/radio
The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in World War I, and the failed Communist revolution that followed the armistice in November 1918, and collapsed with the election of the Nazi Party in 1933. This week, Juliet talks to Tom Wilkinson (author of 'Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People Who Made Them') about how the war and its aftermath changed German Expressionism, gave rise to Dada and the Neue Sachlichkeit movements, and brought about the most intense reaction against modernist culture.
SELECTED REFERENCES Die Aktion - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_aktion.php Arbeitsrat für Kunst - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitsrat_für_Kunst Jean (Hans) Arp Bauhaus Der Blaue Reiter - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/der-blaue-reiter Bertolt Brecht ARNOLT BRONNEN, Vatermord (1922) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolt_Bronnen Die Brücke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Brücke The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920) Otto Dix - https://www.ottodix.org/ ALFRED DÖBLIN, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1928) - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/01/17/the-genius-of-berlin/ Kasimir Edschmid, 'Concerning Poetic Expressionism' (1917) Max Ernst George Grosz - http://www.redflag.org.uk/frontline/nine/09grosz.html WALTER HASENCLEVER, The Son (1912) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_(play) GERHART HAUPTMANN, The Weavers (1899) John Heartfield - https://www.johnheartfield.com/ Emmy Hennings - http://www.dada-companion.com/hennings/ Georg Heym - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/may/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview18 Hannah Höch - https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/01/new-woman-berlins-feminist-dadaist-pioneer-hannah-höch Richard Huelsenbeck Marcel Janco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco Ernst Jünger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jünger GEORG KAISER, From Morning to Midnight (1916), The Coral (1917), Gas I (1918), Gas II (1920) - https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2013/12/morning-midnight-fiercely-anti-naturalistic-epitome-expressionist-style WASSILY KANDINSKY, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) - https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-116.php Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Käthe Kollwitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Käthe_Kollwitz OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, Murderer, Hope of Woman (1909) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderer,_the_Hope_of_Women SIEGFRIED KRACAUER, From Caligari to Hitler (1947) - https://monoskop.org/images/1/12/Kracauer_Siegfried_From_Caligari_to_Hitler_A_Psychological_History_of_the_German_Film.pdf M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931) August Macke Thomas Mann Franz Marc Neue Jugend - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_neue-jugend.php Friedrich Nietzsche - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v12/n16/jp-stern/impatience Emil Nolde Die Novembergruppe - https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/die-novembergruppe-the-november-group-1918-1934 Pandora's Box (dir. G. W. Pabst, 1928) Christian Schad - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christian-schad-2331 Kurt Schwitters GEORG SIMMEL, The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903) - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/berlin/pdf/scholarship/Simmel_The%20Metropolis.pdf Carl Sternheim - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sternheim August Strindberg Der Sturm - https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_ge/objbyppib/objbyppib_ppib-25_sov.html Sophie Taeuber-Arp - https://frieze.com/tags/sophie-tauber-arp ERNST TOLLER, Masse-Mensch (1920), Hoppla! We're Alive! (1927) - https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWtoller.htm Ferdinand Tönnies Kurt Tucholsky - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fabulous-tragic-kurt-tucholsky/ TRISTAN TZARA, 'Dada Manifesto' (1918) - http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf Richard Wagner Max Weber Frank Wedekind
A century since the Armistice, World War I looms larger than ever in the UK's cultural and historical imaginary. Known first as 'the Great War' and then 'the war to end all wars', it was fought in new ways with new technologies, with unprecedented psychological effects on its participants, and this led writers and artists - many of whom were combatants - to find new forms to describe it.
This week, Juliet talks to Charlotte Jones (King's College London) about how the war has been represented from 1914 to the present, especially in poetry, memoir and literature, and why portrayals in film and TV cause so much anxiety for those who insist it be remembered as a heroic sacrifice rather than a senseless waste.
SELECTED REFERENCES LAURENCE BINYON, 'For the Fallen' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen Blackadder Goes Forth (TV series, 1989) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/blackadder-michael-gove-historians-first-world-war Blast (journal, 1914-15) - https://spikemagazine.com/wyndham-lewis-blast-an-explosive-journal/ MARY BORDEN, The Forbidden Zone (1929) - http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Borden2/fz.html Rupert Brooke Mira Calix - Beyond the Deepening Shadows: The Tower Remembers (2018) Alan Clark (diarist/MP) Jeffery Daly JEREMY DELLER, 'We're Here Because We're Here' (2016) T. S. Eliot Richard Evans (historian) Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) Henri Gaudier-Brzeska - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henri-gaudier-brzeska-1143 Julian Grenfell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Grenfell RADCLYFFE HALL, 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself' (1926) - https://bartee11.wordpress.com/texts/radclyffe-halls-miss-ogilvy-finds-herself/ RADCLYFFE HALL, The Well of Loneliness (1928) THOMAS HARDY, 'Men Who March Away' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57195/men-who-march-away F. W. Harvey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Harvey Homer (Greek poet) Horace (Roman poet) T. E. Hulme - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/t-e-hulme ALDOUS HUXLEY, Brave New World (1932) DAVID JONES, In Parenthesis (1937) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Parenthesis JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/64/the-great-northern-morlock-hunt RUDYARD KIPLING, Epitaphs of the War (1919) - http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_epitaphs1.htm Wyndham Lewis - https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTlewis.htm F. T. MARINETTI, 'War, the World's Only Hygiene' (1911) - https://www.unknown.nu/futurism/war.html The Monocled Mutineer (TV series, 1986) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092404/ Charles S. Myers - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/06/shell-shocked.aspx C. R. W. Nevinson - https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTnevinson.htm Friedrich Nietzsche Oh! What a Lovely War (dir. Richard Attenborough, 1969) WILFRED OWEN, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' (1918) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est Ezra Pound Herbert Read - https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWread.htm Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/isaac-rosenberg Siegfried Sassoon - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/siegfried-sassoons-statement-of-protest-against-the-war-and-related-letters George Bernard Shaw C. H. Sorley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sorley ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1854) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade They Shall Not Grow Old (dir. Peter Jackson, 2018) - https://silentlondon.co.uk/2018/10/16/lff-review-they-shall-not-grow-old-honours-veterans-but-not-the-archive/ 'To Suffragettes' (BLAST, 1914) - http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Blast/Blast1-1_To-Suffragettes.pdf Vorticist artists: David Bomberg, Jessica Dismorr, William Roberts, Helen Sanders, Dorothy Shakespear, Edward Wadsworth - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/06/vorticism-exhibition-lewis REBECCA WEST, The Return of the Soldier (1918) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Soldier
This week, Tom Overton interviews Dr Clive James Nwonka (http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/Clive-Nwonka) about White Screen/Black Images - Nwonka's new course about black cinema at the London School of Economics (http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/courseGuides/SO/2018_SO4A9.htm). They also discuss issues of diversity (a peculiarly New Labour concept) against equality, the relationship between art, grime and cinema; highlights of the recent London Film Festival; and much more.
SELECTED REFERENCES James Baldwin BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee, 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/18/blackkklansman-spike-lee-film-ku-klux-klan Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/04/blindspotting-review-carlos-lopez-estrada Boyz n the Hood (dir. John Singleton, 1991) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/27/boyz-n-the-hood-review-blistering-humanitarian-classic-john-singleton Bullet Boy (dir. Saul Dibb, 2004) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1208336/index.html East Is East (dir. Damien O'Donnell, 1999) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166175/ Paul Gilroy Stuart Hall DAN HANCOX, Inner City Pressure (2018) - https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/grime-the-thatcherite-ideal-ft-dan-hancox/ If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2018) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Beale_Street_Could_Talk_(film) Buster Keaton Professor Sarita Malik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77dGnnF4VQ Steve McQueen (filmmaker): Hunger (2008); Shame (2011); 12 Years a Slave (2013); Widows (2018) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen_(director) KOBENA MERCER (ed.), Black Film British Cinema (1988) - https://issuu.com/icalondon/docs/blackfilmbritishcinema OLI MOULD, Against Creativity (2018) - https://soundcloud.com/suite-212/against-creativity-an-interview-with-oli-mould Oasis (band) Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2018) - https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/tiff-film-review-roma/ Dr Anamik Saha Set It Off (dir. F. Gary Gray, 1996) - http://itsmadeinstone.com/arts-entertainment/2016/11/8/set-it-off-the-original-squad-goals James Snead - http://yamp.org/Profiles/JamesSnead So Solid Crew Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018) - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sorry-bother-you-director-boots-riley-blasts-foreign-distributors-refusing-carry-a-black-movie-1132252 The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah, 2013) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/stuart-hall-project-john-akomfrah-interview 'That's All I Ask' (Nina Simone) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBbV0NPAx4 Ashley Walters - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910180/ Kanye West
This week, Tom Overton talks to Sarah Shin (co-founder of Ignota Books) and So Mayer (author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and other books) about new currents in feminist poetry and politics that use magic and myth-making as tools to reconsider the world, and create new narratives that might improve it. The show also includes readings from Jen Calleja, Lucy Mercer and Jane Yeh, all of whom feature in Ignota's debut publication 'Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry' - which will be on sale at the New Suns feminist festival at the Barbican on Saturday 3 November.
SELECTED REFERENCES Ignota Books - https://ignota.org/ New Suns festival - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-a-feminist-literary-festival Feminist Library crowdfunder - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-the-feminist-library-build-its-new-home
WALTER BENJAMIN, The Arcades Project John Berger Nicole Bettencourt Coelho Tarana Burke (#MeToo) OCTAVIA BUTLER - Parable of the Talents (1988) - https://io9.gizmodo.com/archives-reveal-what-octavia-butlers-next-books-would-h-1590584994 JEN CALLEJA – Serious Justice (2016) - https://testcentre.org.uk/product/serious-justice/ FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (2018) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/ CA Conrad SARAH FAITH GOTTESDIENER, Many Moons - https://visualmagic.info/many-moons-workbooks-archive/ ROXANE GAY (ed.), Not That Bad (2018) - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/not-that-bad/ DONNA HARAWAY, Staying with the Trouble (2016) - http://thechart.me/book-review-donna-haraway-staying-with-the-trouble/ Hildegard von Bingen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen Zora Neale Hurston Bhanu Kapil - http://clinicpresents.tictail.com/product/threads LAO TZU - Tao Te Ching - https://www.shambhala.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-896.html Ursula K. Le Guin - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6253/ursula-k-le-guin-the-art-of-fiction-no-221-ursula-k-le-guin Huw Lemmey AUDRE LORDE, ‘Poetry is a Luxury’ - https://www.silverpress.org/your-silence-will-not-protect-you/ Terence McKenna - https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/pam38b/terence-mckenna-zuvuya-dream-matrix-telemetry-interview Lucy Mercer - http://www.thewhitereview.org/contributor_bio/lucy-mercer/ Nisha Ramayya Sabrina Scott - https://www.witchbody.com/ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline (1623) Victoria Sin - http://victoriasin.co.uk/ Sriwhana Spong – a hook but no fish (exhibition) - https://pumphousegallery.org.uk/programme/a-hook-but-no-fish REBECCA TAMÁS – Savage - https://poetryschool.com/reviews/review-savage-rebecca-tamas/ Simone Weil Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (dir. Arwen Curry, 2018) - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin-pg-screentalk JANE YEH, The Ninjas (2012) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/23/the-ninjas-jane-yeh-poetry-review
Bill Morrison's most recent feature film, 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' (2016) is an astonishing look at the history of early cinema, and of North America in the early 20th century, told almost entirely with footage found buried in the former gold-mining town. But it is the product of a 25-year film career in which Morrison has built a distinctive way of telling stories using archive film, often in states of decay, and contemporary music. This week, Juliet talks to Morrison about his practice, from his time at film school to the present.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY BILL MORRISON Full filmography: http://billmorrisonfilm.com/bio-filmography
The Film of Her (1996) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/the-films-of-bill-morrison/morrison-film-of-her/ Decasia (2002) - https://bombmagazine.org/articles/bill-morrisons-decasia-the-state-of-decay/ Who by Water (2007) - https://vimeo.com/48669901 Spark of Being (2010) - https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/spark-of-being-1117946734/ The Miners' Hymns (2011) - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/16/the-miners-hymns-barbican-review-morrison-johansson The Great Flood (2013) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/american-refugees-bill-morrison-s-great-flood Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014) - https://vimeo.com/125601994 Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/08/16/dawson-city-after-gold-rush/
Robert Breer - https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-37-robert-breer The Clock (dir. Christian Marclay, 2010) - https://frieze.com/article/about-time-christian-marclays-clock-receives-its-tate-modern-premiere Gustav Deutsch & Peter Tscherkassky - https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/library/essay/24-frames-a-second Fantasia (dir. Various, 1940) Flesh for Frankenstein (dir. Paul Morrissey, 1973) Frankenstein (dir. J. Searle Dawley, 1910) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fM9meqfQ4 Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, 1931) Michael Gordon (Bang on a Can) The Green Fog (dir. Guy Maddin, 2017) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/green-fog-guy-maddin-giddy-san-francisco-vertigo-remake La Jetée (dir. Chris Marker, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfXCkFQtXw Jóhann Jóhansson Peter Kubelka - https://www.filmcomment.com/article/peter-kubelka-frame-by-frame-antiphon-adebar-arnulf-rainer/ Saved from the Titanic (dir. Étienne Arnaud, 1912, lost) MARY SHELLEY, Frankenstein (1818) Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (dir. Ken Jacobs, 1969) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYzi_qIYdc You Will Be Free (dir. Juliet Jacques, 2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288L2CRNfZU Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks, 1974) Toute la mémoire du monde (dir. Alain Resnais, 1956) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RVSZ_yDjs
Despite decades of censorship and neglect, Peter Watkins (http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/) has created a body of work that marks him out as one of the UK’s greatest filmmakers. Born in Surrey in 1935, Watkins began his career pioneering the ‘docu-drama’ in two works for the BBC: historical drama Culloden (1964) about the final battle in the Jacobite rebellion, and The War Game (1965), speculating about a nuclear attack on the UK. The BBC refused to broadcast the latter, and after his feature film Privilege (1968) had a poor commercial and critical reception, Watkins spent the rest of his career in exile.
In his theoretical writing, teaching and filmmaking, Watkins has challenged the ‘monoform’ – a standardisation of Mass Audio-Visual Media that barrages its audience with a rapid flow of changing images and sounds, with the intention of preventing any real contemplation. Joining Juliet to discuss Watkins' work is Gareth Evans, former editor of Vertigo magazine and adjunct Moving Image Curator at Whitechapel Gallery.
Watkins on the monoform and the global media crisis: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/library/documents/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-the-global-media-crisis/
SELECTED REFERENCES
FILMS BY PETER WATKINS The Forgotten Faces (1960) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-forgotten-faces-1961-online Culloden (1964) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxW-nB0nNU The War Game (1965) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy7nt/the-war-game Privilege (1966) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-privilege-1967-online The Gladiators (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-gladiators Punishment Park (1971) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/08/4 Edvard Munch (1974) - https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/art-of-the-real-edvard-munch-by-peter-watkins/ The Journey (1987) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsYLt9bSRbw The Freethinker (1992-94) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2012/01/freethinker.html La Commune (2000) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1S18jsyyw
WILLIAM BLAKE, ‘Jerusalem’ Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966) BERTOLT BRECHT, The Days of the Commune (1955) - http://daysofthecommune.com/pages/play.html A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971) GUY DEBORD, ATTILA KOTÁNYI & RAOUL VANEIGEM, ‘Thesis on the Paris Commune’ (1962) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Pariscommune.htm End of Days (dir. Peter Hyams, 1999) Future Revolutions: New Perspectives on Peter Watkins (2018) - https://wolfberlin.org/en/wolf-shop/book-new-perspective-on-peter-watkins-future-revolutions If … (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1968) It Happened Here (dir. Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo, 1965) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/it-happened-here-kevin-brownlow Jubilee (dir. Derek Jarman, 1978) V. I. LENIN, ‘Lessons of the Commune’ (1911) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mar/23.htm The Living Dead (dir. Adam Curtis, 1995) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4 Manfred Mann KARL MARX, ‘The Civil War in France’ (1871) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm Ralph Miliband - https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/index.htm The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0 O Lucky Man! (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1973) Stanisław Przybyszewski - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Przybyszewski Role of a Lifetime (dir. Deimantas Narkevičius, 2003) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EREtDfYoM August Strindberg Threads (dir. Mick Jackson, 1984) West of the Tracks (dir. Wang Bing, 2002) - https://theartsofslowcinema.com/2017/05/16/west-of-the-tracks-wang-bing-2003/ Who is America? (TV series, 2018) ÉMILE ZOLA, La Débâcle (1892) - https://readingzola.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/la-debacle-the-downfall/
John Calder (1927-2018) was a giant of 20th century literary publishing, and a champion of free speech. Best known for publishing Samuel Beckett's novels and poetry, he brought much of the most innovative European literature of the 20th century to an English-speaking audience, ultimately won a landmark obscenity trial over Hubert Selby Jr's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and has inspired several generations of exciting writers and publishers.
Joining Juliet to discuss Calder's life and legacy is Alex Kovacs, author of 'The Currency of Paper' (2013), who worked in Calder's bookshop in London in 2008-10.
Alessandro Gallenzi's obituary for John Calder: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/21/john-calder-obituary Huw Nesbitt's interview with John Calder (2008) - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nndv5k/john-calder-443-v15n12
SELECTED REFERENCES
HENRI ALLEG, La Question (1958) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Question Lord Altrincham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grigg,_2nd_Baron_Altrincham Fernando Arrabal - http://www.arrabal.org/ ANTONIN ARTAUD, Collected Works (vols. I-IV) Howard Barker AUBREY BEARDSLEY, Under the Hill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Hill SAMUEL BECKETT, The Unnameable (1953) and Waiting for Godot (1953) William S. Burroughs Steven Berkoff Peter Brook JOHN CALDER, The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett (2001) and The Theology of Samuel Beckett (2012) JOHN CALDER, Pursuit (2001) - https://almabooks.com/product/pursuit-memoirs-john-calder/ Henri Chopin - https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/35-henri-chopin/overview/ COPI, Eva Perón (1970) - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-perón Ashley Dukes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Dukes Marguerite Duras JEAN GENET, The Maids (1947) Allen Ginsberg John Glassco The Godot Company - https://actors.mandy.com/uk/company/18184/the-godot-company Grove Press OWEN HATHERLEY, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010) RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Woodshed (1962) and Raymond Roussel: A Critical Guide (1966) ALGER HISS, In the Court of Public Opinion (1957) - https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1957/5/17/hiss-defends-position-in-public-opinion/ I Shot Andy Warhol (dir. Mary Harron, 1996) Eugène Ionesco B. S. Johnson GEORG KAISER, From Morning to Midnight (1912/16) - https://www.cineaste.com/spring2011/from-morning-to-midnight-web-exclusive/ Anna Kavan ALEX KOVACS, The Currency of Paper (2013) - https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2013/09/currency-paper-alex-kovacs-how-capitalism-affects-art VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1930) HENRY MILLER, Sexus (1949) and Tropic of Cancer (1934) EDDIE MILNE, No Shining Armour (1976) - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1976/no093/rees.htm Carole Morin Olympia Press (Maurice Girodias) - https://bookblast.com/blog/spotlight-maurice-girodias-olympia-press-indie-publishers-remembered/ Peter Owen (publisher) Luigi Pirandello ANN QUIN, Berg (1964) and (1969) - http://thequietus.com/articles/24056-ann-quin-lara-pawson-stewart-home-juliette-jacques-lee-rourke-isabel-waidner ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Jealousy (1957) - http://conversationalreading.com/alain-robbe-grillet-and-jealousy/ Raymond Roussel Nathalie Sarraute Jean-Paul Sartre HUBERT SELBY JR, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1966) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/01/last-exit-to-brooklyn-hubert-selby-appeal-1968 Yulian Semyonov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulian_Semyonov Claude Simon T. Dan Smith - https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/stories-shocked-tyneside-high-rise-7236347 Roland Topor Alexander Trocchi TRISTAN TZARA, Seven Dada Manifestos - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80258.Seven_Dada_Manifestos_and_Lampisteries Kenneth Tynan - https://www.theguardian.com/arts/critic/feature/0,,567652,00.html Snoo Wilson Olwen Wymark
Contemporary publishers: And Other Stories; Dalkey Archive Press; Fitzcarraldo Editions; Galley Beggar; Melville House.
Since becoming independent from the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has attracted some attention in the West for its two revolutions (in 2005 and 2010) and the 'gay propaganda' bill introduced to its parliament in 2014, but never passed. Sometimes referred to by European liberals as 'the Switzerland of Central Asia' for its relatively democratic constitution, Kyrgzystan has a complicated relationship with its Soviet past, a fascinating artistic history and a vibrant queer and feminist culture fighting hard against virulent homophobia and misogyny.
In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, Juliet Jacques - who has twice visited Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, and written extensively about the country's LGBTQI politics - talks to Communist and LGBTQI artist-activists Georgy Mamedov and Mohira Suyarkulova. They discuss the creation of Soviet Kirghizia, the Kyrgyz language and Stalin's 'Russification', the development of Kyrgyz painting, the refusal to 'de-Communise' after 1991, the School of Theory & Activism in Bishkek, queer/feminist science fiction and zines, the relationship between art and activism, and much more.
Juliet's recent Open Democracy article on LGBTQI politics in Kyrgyzstan - https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/juliet-jacques/fear-and-loathing-in-kyrgyzstan
(Cover image by Metagalaktika)
SELECTED REFERENCES Gapar Aitiev - https://soviet-art.ru/soviet-kyrgyz-painter-gapar-aytiev-1912-1984/ Semen Chuikov - https://prabook.com/web/semen.chuykov/949822 Yegveniy Fiks - https://yevgeniyfiks.com/home.html The Gay Laboratory (Gei-laboratoriia - Leningrad, 1983-84) Masha Gessen - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/masha-gessen-putinspeak-in-kyrgyzstan.html Owen Hatherley Evald Ilyenkov (1924-1979) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/ Interhelpo (1920s commune) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/10558/letter-from-bishkek-utopia-garden-city-interhelpo JULIET JACQUES, ‘The Woman in the Portrait’ (2014) - https://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no33b.pdf Aleksandra Kollontai - https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/ Kurmanjan Datka, Queen of the Mountains (dir. Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, 2014) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2640460/ SCOTT LIVELY, Pink Swastika GEORGY MADEMOV & OKSANA SHATALOVA, ‘Against Simple Answers’ - (2017) http://artseverywhere.ca/2017/08/17/against-simple-answers/ László Mészáros (Hungarian sculptor, 1905-1945) - https://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/m/meszaros/index.html Metagalaktika - https://www.facebook.com/Metagalaktika-1897353940522957/ Vladimir Oratsov (artist from Tashkent) Queer in Space: Kollontai Communist Archive (dir. STAB, 2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXIK_oqjBQ Oksana Shatalova STAB, The Concepts of the Soviet STAB, Utopian Bishkek SYINAT SULTANALIEVA, ‘Element 174’ (2017) - https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/9831/being-lgbtq-element-174-syinat-sultanalieva-shtab Utterly Other / Completely Different (Kyrgyz science fiction anthology) Uzbek Metro - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/aug/24/uzbekistan-secret-underground-tashkent-metro-in-pictures Weird Sisters (fanzine) - https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/8406/new-east-100-zines-diy-freedom-expression
How does capitalism hijack the idea of creativity for profit? Why does it encourage us to be 'creative' in every move we make? Does this make the very concept of 'creativity' meaningless, or can it be reclaimed?
This week, Tom Overton talks to Oli Mould about his new book 'Against Creativity' (Verso, 2018 - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2852-against-creativity). They discuss how neoliberalism and particularly the New Labour project have used the concept, how it has fed into gentrification, its relationship with Silicon Valley and its 'algocracy', and with the social and bio-medical models of disability.
OLI MOULD, Urban Subversion and the Creative City - https://tacity.co.uk/books/urbansubversion/
THEODOR W. ADORNO & MAX HORKHEIMER - Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Class War and the Cereal Killers café - https://infinitelyfullofhope.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/a-note-on-the-cereal-cafe-getting-attacked/ Jack Coulter (painter) - https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/meet-artist-turning-synesthesia-art/ Chris Downey (architect) - http://www.arch4blind.com/ Tracey Emin RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/26/gentrification-richard-florida-interview-creative-class-new-urban-crisis Noel Gallagher ADAM GRANT, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/16/originals-adam-grant-end-of-average-todd-rose-review ARTHUR KOESTLER, The Act of Creation (1964) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Creation MARCEL MAUSS, The Gift (1925) - https://libcom.org/files/Mauss%20-%20The%20Gift.pdf Space Hijackers - http://www.culturalhijack.org/index.php/participating-artists/88-space-hijackers The Spice Girls
Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English modernism. A writer, painter and sculptor, who moved from an English country house to Mexico City, via Paris and New York, Carrington’s life spanned incredible political changes and numerous cultural movements, yet her interests and style remained consistent across the different fields in which she worked.
This week, Juliet talks to Mexican novelist and critic Chloe Aridjis about her personal and creative relationship with Carrington, as well as Carrington’s life and work, and its influence on Josh Appignanesi’s new film Female Human Animal, in which Chloe and Juliet both appear.
WORKS REFERENCED
WORKS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON The Debutante and Other Stories (2017) - https://www.silverpress.org/the-debutante-and-other-stories/ Down Below (1943) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-strange-irreverent-worlds-of-down-below-and-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/ The Hearing Trumpet (1974) - https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/surreal-old-people-leonora-carringtons-the-hearing-trumpet/
Tate Liverpool exhibition (2015)
CHLOE ARIDJIS, Book of Clouds (2009), Asunder (2013) and Sea Monsters (2019) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Aridjis Homero Aridjis - https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=13 André Breton Claude Cahun Robert Capa - https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/the-mexican-suitcase-a-fascinating-chapter-in-the-history-of-photography/ LEWIS CARROLL, Jabberwocky (1871) Ithell Colquhoun - http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/ Salvador Dalí HUGH SYKES DAVIES, Petron (1935) - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/hsd-watson.html Toni Del Renzio - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Eisenstein in Guanajuato (dir. Peter Greenaway, 2015) Max Ernst, ‘Two Children Menaced by Nightingale’ Female Human Animal (dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018) - http://film.britishcouncil.org/female-human-animal DAVID GASCOYNE, Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) - http://www.bookride.com/2012/08/mans-life-is-this-meat.html DAVID GASCOYNE, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/poetry Ernő Goldfinger Peggy Guggenheim ALDOUS HUXLEY, Eyeless in Gaza (1936) International Surrealist Exhibition (Burlington Galleries, 1936) Edward James - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y9gsw Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/meng-jen-madg.html The Kabala Frida Kahlo Edward Lear E.L.T. Mesens - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/e-l-t-mesens-1624 Violette Nozières - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/162742317295/e-l-t-mesens-violette-nozieres Octavio Paz Benjamin Péret - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=2 Beatrix Potter Gisèle Prassinos - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43480/gis%C3%A8le-prassinos-reading-her-poems-surrealists ¡Que Viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1932) HERBERT READ, Surrealism (1936) Diego Rivera Mary Shelley Dylan Thomas Marina Warner - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/leonora-carrington-from-high-society-to-surrealism-in-praise-of-100-years-on Imre Weisz
Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi (b. 1956) has been documenting the Israel/Palestine conflict, and other issues in Israeli politics, since 1989. He has since made eight award-winning feature films and a number of shorts that forensically examine his home country's character and behaviour, and experiment with the documentary form. Juliet speaks to Mograbi about his life in cinema: how and why he chose film as his primary medium; how video and digital technology changed his practice; the logistics of getting his work funded and shown; and more.
WORKS REFERENCED Most of Avi Mograbi's films are available via his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCYhnbhUeQTcysINT958qTA
Avi Mograbi filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0595783/
AUGUSTO BOAL, Theatre of the Oppressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed Forensic Architecture: https://www.forensic-architecture.org/ Eyal Weizman: https://www.gold.ac.uk/visual-cultures/w-eizman/
In the July 2018 edition of Suite (212), Tom Overton talks to Mike Dibb (http://www.mikedibb.co.uk) about a documentary filmmaking career that has spanned more than fifty years. As well as directed John Berger's legendary BBC TV series 'Ways of Seeing' (1972), Dibb has adapted books by Raymond Williams and C.L.R. James, made documentaries about art, music and sport, and is currently making a film about artist Donny Johnson, who has spent almost his entire adult life in the U.S. prison system.
SELECTED REFERENCES
WORKS BY MIKE DIBB About Time (1983-85) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=42 A Curious Mind - AS Byatt (1996) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=61 The Fame and Shame of Salvador Dalí (1997-98) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=63 The Miles Davis Story (2001) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=65 Fields of Play (1981-82) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=36 Seeing Through Drawing (1977-78) - http://www.mikesouthon.biz/portfolio/seeing-through-drawing Ralph Steadman (Arena, 1977-78) - http://www.mikedibb.co.uk/filmdet.php?filmid=26 Studs Terkel's Chicago (1985) - http://mediaburn.org/video/omnibus-studs-terkels-chicago-4/ Ways of Seeing (1972) - http://ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html
Paul Barker (journalist/writer) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Barker_(writer) WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm JOHN BERGER & JEAN MOHR, A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe (1975) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/533-a-seventh-man Civilisation (TV series, 1968) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/04/civilisation-revisited-kenneth-clark-television-landmark-series-art C.L.R. JAMES, Beyond a Boundary (1963) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/02/beyond-a-boundary-broke-cricket-barriers Donny Johnson - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donny_Johnson F. R. LEAVIS - http://www.leavissociety.com/life-and-work/index.html Lift to the Scaffold (dir. Louis Malle, 1958) - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/louis-malles-elevator-to-the-gallows-and-its-historic-miles-davis-soundtrack George Melly - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jul/05/1 Malcolm Muggeridge - https://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/15/obituaries/malcolm-muggeridge-writer-dies-at-87.html Orchestra to the Orient (dir. David Attenborough, 1963) - https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bb311d02e65445d0b7a0ef1357feff5e Sukhdev Sandhu on 'Ways of Seeing' - https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/sep/07/ways-seeing-berger-tv-programme-british The Stranger (dir. Orson Welles, 1946) - http://archive.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2010/10/10/reevaluating_orson_welless_near_perfect_stranger/
'De-Communisation' has become a central plank of government policy since 'Euromaidan' - the second revolution in Ukraine after independence from the USSR in 1991. Determination to erase not just the Soviet past but any possibility of left-wing radicalism is the one thing that unites the country's two largest political forces: one that represents European Union-facing neoliberalism, the other, violent Ukrainian nationalism. Often censored - or worse - during the 20th century, post-Soviet artists with socialist, feminist and/or utopian ideals have found themselves facing new forms of exclusion and oppression. How have they located themselves within the new cultural and political landscape?
In this episode, Juliet - on residency at the Izolyatsia cultural foundation (https://izolyatsia.org/en) in Kyiv, where it has been in exile from its home in Donetsk since the Russian occupation in 2014 - meets artist Maria Kulikovska (https://www.mariakulikovska.com), herself in exile from Crimea, and academic Jessica Zychowicz (https://www.jeszychowicz.com), author of 'Frame Work: Art, Activism, and Biopolitics in Inter-Revolutionary Kyiv 2004-2018' (Univ. of Toronto Press) to discuss the practicalities, problems and possibilities for artists in contemporary Ukraine.
On de-Communisation – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/20/ukraine-decommunisation-law-soviet Donetsk People's Republic paramilitary takeover of Izolyatsia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GfeGF1QYP4
SELECTED REFERENCES
Ukrainian/Soviet modernist artists: Aleksandr Archipenko, David Burlyuk, Aleksandra Exter, Mikhail Larionov, Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin
Executed Renaissance (inter-war literary movement) - http://euromaidanpress.com/longreads/executed-renaissance-in-ukraine/ Ivan (dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko, 1932) - https://grunes.wordpress.com/2007/01/29/ivan-aleksandr-dovzhenko-1932/ Les Kurbas (theatre director) - http://www.kurbas.org.ua/en/centre.html Mykola Skrypnyk - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Skrypnyk
Svetlana Alexeivich (memoirs) Apartment 14 (young artist who inherited apartment) Bu-Ba-Bu (poetry circle) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu-Ba-Bu David Chichkan - https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/euromaidan-art-exhibition-vandalized.html Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8 Euromaidan. Rough Cut (2014 film) - https://vimeo.com/90920946 Mayo Fryderyk – dressed as general, orange dwarf Grey Horses (dir. Mykola Ridnyi, 2016) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/video-works/grey-horses-1 Hometown (dir. Metahaven, 2018) - https://izolyatsia.org/en/project/hometown/hometown/ Hudrada (curatorial unit) SERHIY KOVALCHUK (ed.), Reimagining Utopias: Theory and Method for Educational Research in Post-Soviet Contexts (2017) CZESLAW MILOSZ, The Captive Mind (1953) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Captive_Mind MYKHAILO MINAKOV, Development and Dystopia: Studies in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Eastern Europe (2018) - http://www.minakovphilosophy.com/ Ofanziba group (Ukraine) Orange Alternative - https://culture.pl/en/article/the-orange-alternative-there-is-no-freedom-without-dwarfs Valentina Petrova Pomoranchova (Polish poetry group) Revolutionary Experimental Space (REP) - https://www.thegreenbox.net/en/books/rep-revolutionary-experimental-space SOSka art collective (Kharkiv) - http://www.mykolaridnyi.com/curatorial-projects/soska-group The Sprawl (Propaganda about Propaganda) (dir. Metahaven, 2015) - http://sprawl.space/about-the-sprawl/ Ukrainian Body exhibition - http://vcrc.org.ua/en/ukrbody/ Lesya Ukrainka Voina - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voina HAYDEN WHITE, The Content of the Form (1987)
One of the more intriguing - and most Lacanian - slogans that appeared in Paris in May 1968 declared 'Il est interdit d'interdire' - 'It is forbidden to forbid'. In this follow-up to our recent Resonance 104.4fm show about the insurrections, Juliet Jacques talks to curator/writer Paul Clinton about his 'Forbidden to Forbid' exhibition, how May '68 launched a decade of queer radicalism, the tensions within its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender elements, and its eventual collapse amidst the HIV/AIDS crisis and the decline of the wider French left.
SELECTED REFERENCES
MICHEL FOUCAULT, History of Sexuality vols. I-IV (1976-84) GUY HOCQUENGHEM, Homosexual Desire (1972) - https://libcom.org/files/Hocquenghem%20-%20Homosexual%20Desire.pdf Ixe (dir. Lionel Soukaz, 1980) - http://ubu.com/film/soukaz_ixe.html PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI, La Monnaie vivante (1970) - https://frieze.com/article/illicit-trade Race d'Ep (dir. Lionel Soukaz & Guy Hocquenghem, 1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g
Oreet Ashery - 'Party for Freedom' (performance/film) - https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/interviews/oreet-ashery_s-party-for-freedom Djuna Barnes Roland Barthes Georges Bataille André Baudry - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Baudry Bazooka (punk graphic design group) - http://www.bazookadesign.com/en/ JULIAN BOURG, From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French Thought (2007) - https://networks.h-net.org/node/6873/reviews/7477/swoboda-bourg-revolution-ethics-may-1968-and-contemporary-french-thought CLAUDE CAHUN, Disavowals (1930) - http://quarterlyconversation.com/claude-cahun-disavowals RENAUD CAMUS, The Great Replacement (2008) - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12604/renaud-camus-interview RENAUS CAMUS, Tricks: 25 Encounters (1979) - https://frieze.com/article/tricks Jean Cocteau Colette Beth Collar COPI, Eva Perón - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-per%C3%B3n Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari Guillaume Dustan - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1363460715569138 Tony Duvert - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=37 Front for Revolutionary Homosexual Action (FHAR) - http://www.notbored.org/caress-yourself.html Jean Genet - http://ubu.com/film/genet.html Genet parle d'Angela Davis (dir. Carole Roussopoulos, 1970) ANDRÉ GIDE, Corydon (1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corydon_(book) Michel Houellebecq MARCEL JOUHANDEAU, De l'abjection (1939) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Jouhandeau Jacques Lacan JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD, Libidinal Economy (1974) - https://monoskop.org/images/c/c4/Lyotard_Jean-Francois_Libidinal_Economy.pdf Herbert Marcuse Pierre Molinier - http://www.anothermag.com/art-photography/8019/the-forbidden-photo-collages-of-pierre-molinier Panic movement: Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Roland Topor Marcel Proust Wilhelm Reich ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, A Sentimental Novel (2007) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2014/4/29/alain-robbe-grillets-a-sentimental-novel ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Le voyeur (1955) - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2819/alain-robbe-grillet-the-art-of-fiction-no-91-alain-robbe-grillet Giles Round RENÉ SCHÉRER, Émile perverti (1974) - http://www.ina.fr/video/I14036845 Gertrude Stein Surrealist authors: André Breton, René Crevel, Benjamin Péret, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau
Sheila Heti's new novel 'Motherhood' (Henry Holt/Harvill Secker, 2018) is a formally inventive, deeply personal exploration of a woman's decision about whether to have children. It builds on the success of her 'novel from life', 'How Should a Person Be?' and confirms her as one of the most interesting and exciting authors of the 21st century. In our June 2018 episode, Juliet talks to Sheila about her new book and her life in writing.
WORKS BY SHEILA HETI The Middle Stories (2001) Ticknor: A Novel (2005) How Should a Person Be? (2010) The Chairs are Where the People Go (2011) We Need a Horse (2011) Women in Clothes (2014, co-edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton) All Our Happy Days are Stupid (2015) Motherhood (2018)
Kathy Acker Thomas Bernhard Cool Runnings (dir. Jon Turteltaub, 1993) Rachel Cusk Dave Eggers 'The Hills' (TV series, 2006-10) JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) JULIET JACQUES, 'The Woman in the Portrait' Karl Ove Knausgaard CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) Ben Lerner Herman Melville Henry Miller Joe Orton Willam H. Prescott - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Prescott NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' (1963) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/ George Ticknor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ticknor Margaux Williamson - http://www.margauxwilliamson.com/
In May 1968, demonstrations at the University of Nanterre, triggered a wave of protests across Paris and elsewhere in France, that have loomed in the imaginations of the Western European left.
This month, Juliet talks to Mitchell Abidor, author of May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745336947/may-made-me/) about the relationship between the protests and film: how André Malraux's decision to fire Henri Langlois from the Cinemathèque fed into the insurrection; how far the Provos, Lettrists and Situationists influenced the protests; how the likes of Jean-Luc Godard and Chris Marker changed their practice after May '68; and the feminist and queer filmmakers and groups that emerged in its wake.
WORKS REFERENCED:
FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT, Stolen Kisses (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCELURpFlrs HERBERT MARCUSE, One-Dimensional Man (1964)
Provos (Robert Jasper Grootveld) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omb23Qm_RG8 GUY DEBORD, The Society of the Spectacle (1967) RAOUL VANEIGEM, The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967)
Jean-Jacques Lebel – https://frieze.com/article/jean-jacques-lebel Louis Althusser ISIDORE ISOU, ‘Lettrism and the Youth Uprising of 68’ – https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3794-lettrism-and-the-youth-uprising-of-68
ISIDORE ISOU, A Treatise on Venom and Eternity (1951) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy7XrmOqgyc GIL J. WOLMAN, L’Anti-concept (1952) - http://www.notbored.org/anticoncept.html GUY DEBORD, Howlings in Favour of Sade (1952) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord.films/howls.htm Lettrist International, ‘No More Flat Feet!’ (on Chaplin) – http://www.notbored.org/no-more-flat-feet.html Louis Aragon – https://radicalarchives.org/2013/09/22/aragon-vs-the-68-students/ COSTA-GAVRAS, Z (1969) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065234/ DZIGA VERTOV GROUP, Pravda (1970) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/pravda.html Eisenstein, Pudovkin & Aleksandrov manifesto – http://tmckosky.asp.radford.edu/thea180/SergieCarSound.htm Vera Chytilová – http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/vera-chytilova-beginners CHRIS MARKER, À bientôt, j’espère (1967) – https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063854/ JEAN RENOIR, La Vie est à nous (1936) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Belongs_to_Us Cinétracts (1968) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m12TB0cICec Michel Andrieu and Group ARC – collective filmmaking group États Généraux du cinema La Reprise du travail aux Wonder (1968) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQdby-9ihFk WILLIAM KLEIN, Grands soirs et petit matins (1977) - http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/william-klein-films-1958-99/william-klein-maydays-grands-soirs-petits-matins ROMAIN GOUPIL, Mourir à 30 ans (1982) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_a_Life_(film) João Moreira Salles, In the Intense Now (2017) - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/movies/in-the-intense-now-review-documentary.html HERVÉ LA ROUX, La Reprise (1996) CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS, SCUM Manifesto (1976) CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS, Genet Talks about Angela Davis (1971) RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER, Eight Hours are Not a Day (1972) - https://newsocialist.org.uk/dialectical-soap-operas-rainer-werner-fassbinder-on-tv/ Vidéa and Vidéo Out – French feminist film collectives Delphine Seyrig – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphine_Seyrig LIONEL SOUKAZ, La Race d’ep (1979) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJvcrubBS5g MARCO BELLOCCHIO, Good Morning, Night (2003) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Morning,_Night CHRIS MARKER, A Grin Without a Cat (1977) – https://chrismarker.org/chris-marker-2/chris-markers-grin-without-cat-revives-revolution-making-history-paul-arthur/ CHRIS DARKE, 'Three Images of May: Cinema and the Uprising' – https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/vertigo_magazine/volume-3-issue-9-spring-summer-2008/three-images-of-may-cinema-and-the-uprising/ Murals at Nanterre - https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-spirit-of-68-nanterre-street-art/
In the April 2018 edition of Suite (212), returning host Juliet Jacques talks to artist, musician and filmmaker Larry Achiampong and dancer/performer Alexandrina Hemsley (of Project O) about race, racism and the arts.
(Cover image: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' by Adrian Piper, 1981)
WORKS REFERENCED:
LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Biters - http://www.larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/biters LARRY ACHIAMPONG & DAVID BLANDY: Finding Fanon, parts I-III - https://vimeo.com/138951543 LARRY ACHIAMPONG: Relic Traveller - http://larryachiampong.co.uk/list-of-artworks/voyage-of-the-relic-traveller
ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY: Feminist Shakedown - http://feministshakedown.tumblr.com/ ALEXANDRINA HEMSLEY & SEKE CHIMUTENGWENDE: Black Holes - www.blackholes.co.uk
JAY BERNARD: Surge - Side A - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/apr/05/speaking-out-jay-bernard-surge-side-a-poet BLACK AUDIO FILM COLLECTIVE: Handsworth Songs, Part I (1986) - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/134049237625/black-audio-film-collective-handsworth-songs RENI EDDO-LODGE, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People abour Race [2014 blog post] - http://renieddolodge.co.uk/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/ STUART HALL & MAGGIE STEED: It Ain't Half Racist Mum - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/133964781230/stuart-hall-it-aint-half-racist-mum-1979 CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS: Women Who Run with the Wolves - https://medium.com/@kami_leon/13-reasons-why-you-should-read-women-who-run-with-the-wolves-instead-36435ea32b4 ADRIAN PIPER: 'Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features' - http://adrianpiperarted.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/self-portrait-exaggerating-my-negroid.html NIKESH SHUKLA (ed.): The Good Immigrant - https://unbound.com/books/the-good-immigrant/
Sutapa Biswas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutapa_Biswas Sonia Boyce: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/sonia-boyce-ra Octavia Butler: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/mar/16/guardianobituaries.bookscomment Lubaina Himid: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lubaina-himid-2356/turner-prize-2017-biography Sabrina Mahfouz: http://www.sabrinamahfouz.com/ Pauline Mayers: https://paulinemayers.wordpress.com/ Wangechi Mutu: http://www.ubu.com/film/mutu.html Network 11 (Junior Boakye-Yiadom, Beverly Bennett and others): https://ntwrk11.wordpress.com Kamile Ofoeme: https://vimeo.com/user35307978 Selina Thompson: http://selinathompson.co.uk/ Akeim Toussaint Buck: http://www.toussainttomove.com/
Priyamvada Gopal's response to the Daily Mail - https://medium.com/@zen.catgirl/my-heartfelt-thanks-to-the-hundreds-of-people-who-have-sent-their-solidarity-and-support-via-email-5f9739ec5dba Ash Sarkar on the BBC and Enoch Powell - https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-enoch-powell-rivers-of-blood-racism-brexit-wrong-to-run-it-a8302766.html Kit de Waal interview (Guardian) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/24/kit-de-waal-interview-the-trick-to-time Tate, 'The Other Story' exhibition (1989) - http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/no-12/the-other-story-and-the-past-imperfect Tate Modern, 'Soul of a Nation' exhibition (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/16/soul-of-a-nation-art-in-the-age-of-black-power-tate-modern-review
Guest host Tom Overton discusses the legacy of writer and translator Anya Berger (1923-2018), and issues around literary translation with Esther Leslie, author of 'Walter Benjamin: Overpowering Conformism', and writer, poet, editor and curator Jen Calleja, who is currently Translator in Residence at the British Library.
WORKS REFERENCED Tom Overton on Anya Berger (Frieze) - https://frieze.com/article/life-margins / https://frieze.com/article/anya-berger-1923-2018 Name the Translator campaign - https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/name-the-translator
Theodor W. Adorno SVETLANA ALEXEIVICH, Second-Hand Time (2013, trans. Bela Shayevich) - https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/from-second-hand-time-by-svetlana-alexievich-1/ Roland Barthes Charles Baudelaire WALTER BENJAMIN, The Storyteller (2016) - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2101-the-storyteller WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Task of the Translator' (1923) WALTER BENJAMIN, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' (1936) - https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm John Berger - poetry - https://smokestack-books.co.uk/book.php?book=93 John Berger, 'Ways of Seeing' (TV series, 1972) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk KATE BRIGGS, This Little Art (2017) - http://www.musicandliterature.org/reviews/2018/1/18/kate-briggs-this-little-art AIMÉ CESAIRÉ - Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (1939) - https://archipelagobooks.org/book/return-to-my-native-land/ HANS MAGNUS ENZENBERGER, Short Summer of Anarchy - https://libcom.org/history/brief-summer-anarchy-life-death-durruti-hans-magnus-enzensberger Sigmund Freud Stefan George - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_George Franz Hessel - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Hessel HOMER, The Odyssey (trans. Emily Wilson) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/08/the-odyssey-translated-emily-wilson-review Kleenex/LiLiPUT (Swiss post-punk band) / Marlene Marder ESTHER LESLIE, Walter Benjamin (2007) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/esther-leslie-walter-benjamin.pdf Helen Lowe-Porter (American translator) - http://www.freeburn.biz/the-curious-case-of-helen-lowe-porter/ Thomas Mann Herbert Marcuse Joachim Meyerhoff - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Meyerhoff MARION POSCHMAN, Pine Islands (2017, trans. Jen Calleja) - http://www.goethe.de/kue/lit/prj/lit/b17/en16515289.htm MARCEL PROUST, À la recherche du temps perdu (1913-27) Gregory Rabassa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Rabassa Revolutionary History (journal) - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backissu.htm Spare Rib - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/28/british-library-spare-rib-feminist-magazine-online MICHELLE STEINBECK, My Father was a Man on Land and a Whale in the Water (2016, trans. Jen Calleja) TA First Translation Prize - https://societyofauthors.org/News/News/2018/January/TA-First-Translation-Prize-shortlist LEON TROTSKY, 1905 (1907, trans. Anya Bostock) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1907/1905/index.htm Tristan Tzara Walter Benjamin's Archive: Images, Texts, Signs (2008, trans. Esther Leslie) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jan/27/society PETER WEISS, The Aesthetics of Resistance (1975-81) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aesthetics_of_Resistance WIM WENDERS, The Pixels of Paul Cézanne (2018, trans. Jen Calleja) - https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/6496/s/9780571336463-the-pixels-of-paul-c-zanne/category/182/ Stefan Zweig
Juliet talks to Owen Hatherley (author of 'Militant Modernism', 'A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain', 'Landscapes of Communism' and many other books) and David Stubbs (formerly of Melody Maker, and a writer on '1996 and the End of History' as well as Krautrock and electronic music) about the life and work of Mark E. Smith, who sadly died last month.
They discuss The Fall in the context of post-industrial Manchester, the post-punk scene, a changing (and ever less intelligent) music press, modernist literature and pop culture, and think about the group's legacy.
WORKS REFERENCED LoneLady - Hinterland (2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W6w8fQauwg Julie Campbell on Mark E. Smith - http://lonelady.co.uk/blog/rip-mark-e-smith-5th-march-1957-24th-january-2018/
The Fall discography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_discography
Mark E. Smith reads the football scores - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUiPs1PxKo 'I feel like Alan Minter' graffiti - https://rollerderbyonfilm.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/i-feel-like-alan-minter.html 1970s graffiti - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/03/the-writing-on-the-wall-1970s-pioneers-of-british-graffiti
J. G. Ballard William Blake Thomas Carlyle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Michael Clark C86 (NME compilation tape, 1986) Philip K. Dick FRIEDRICH ENGELS, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/condition-working-class-england.pdf Gang of Four, 'Entertainment!' (LP, 1979) Antonio Gramsci George Grosz Wyndham Lewis H. P. Lovecraft FILIPPO TOMMASO MARINETTI, 'The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism' (1909) The Passage, 'Troops Out' (7", 1981) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXBTFNE7qr0 Ezra Pound SIMON REYNOLDS, Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-84 (2005) Sex Pistols, 'God Save the Queen' (7", 1977) DAVE SIMPSON, The Fallen (2008) MARK E. SMITH, Renegade (2008) Talking Heads, Remain in Light (LP, 1980)
In the January 2018 episode, Juliet is joined by Jonathan Coe (author of 'Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson' and many other works) and Jennifer Hodgson (editor of 'The Unmapped Country', a collection of stories and fragments by Ann Quin). They discuss Britain's fertile post-war 'experimental' literary scene: its cultural contexts, its successes and failures, and its legacy.
WORKS REFERENCED
NOVELS Paul Ableman – I Hear Voices (1958) Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim (1954) Francis Booth - Amongst Those Left: The British Experimental Novel 1940-1980 (1982) John Braine – Room at the Top (1957) Alan Burns – The Angry Brigade: A Documentary Novel (1974) Robert Burton – The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) Jonathan Coe – An Accidental Woman (1987) Jonathan Coe – Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (2004) Jonathan Coe – What a Carve-Up! (1994) Henry Green - Caught (1943) Rayner Heppenstall – The Blaze of Noon (1939) Rayner Heppenstall – Four Absentees (1960) Rayner Heppenstall – The Fourfold Tradition (1961) Rayner Heppenstall – The Lesser Infortune (1953) Rayner Heppenstall – Saturnine (1943) Rayner Heppenstall & Michael Innes – Three Tales of Hamlet (1950) B. S. Johnson – Aren’t You Rather Young to be Writing Your Memoirs? (1973) B. S. Johnson – Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (1971) B. S. Johnson – See the Old Lady Decently (1973) B. S. Johnson – Travelling People (1963) B. S. Johnson – The Unfortunates (1969) Anna Kavan – Ice (1967) D. H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928) Rosamund Lehmann – The Echoing Grove (1953) Iris Murdoch – Under the Net (1954) George Orwell – Animal Farm (1945) John Osborne – Look Back in Anger (1956) Ann Quin – Berg (1964) Ann Quin – Passages (1969) Ann Quin – Three (1966) Ann Quin – Tripticks (1972) Ann Quin – The Unmapped Country (edited by Jennifer Hodgson, 2018) Alan Sillitoe – Raw Material (1972) Alan Sillitoe – Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1766) David Storey – This Sporting Life (1960) Philip Tew, B. S. Johnson: A Critical Reading (2001) John Wain – Hurry On Down (1953) Colin Wilson – The Outsider (1956)
AUTHORS (a selection) J. G. Ballard, Richard Beard, Samuel Beckett, Rosalind Belben, John Berger, Claire-Louise Bennett, Christine Brooke-Rose, Elizabeth Bowen, Anthony Burgess, William S. Burroughs, John Calder, Angela Carter, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Robert Creeley, Marguerite Duras, Eva Figes, Patrick Hamilton, Wilson Harris, James Joyce, Chris Kraus, Hari Kunzru, David Lodge, Eimear McBride, Nicholas Mosley, Thomas Nash, Jeff Nuttall, Robert Nye, Flann O'Brien, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Will Self, Penelope Shuttle, Claude Simon, Stevie Smith, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Swift, Emma Tennant, Philip Toynbee, Alexander Trocchi, John Wheway, Heathcote Williams
FILMS/TV B. S. Johnson on Samuel Johnson (London Weekend Television programme, 1971) Calling Mr. Smith (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1943) Christie Malry’s Own Double-Entry (dir. Paul Tickell, 2001) The Eye and the Ear (dir. Franciszka & Stefan Themerson, 1944) Last Year in Marienbad (dir. Alain Resnais, 1961) London Film-Makers' Co-operative Peter Whitehead
Independent Group (British Pop Art collective, 1952-55)
ARTICLES Hélène Cixous, ‘Le roman experimental de Grand-Bretagne’ (Le Monde, 1967)
What is gentrification? How far are artists complicit - wittingly or not - in processes of social cleansing? What can artists do to fight it? Juliet talks to artist-academic Alberto Duman (http://www.albertoduman.me.uk/main.htm) and 'Savage Messiah' author/artist Laura Grace Ford (http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.co.uk/) about gentrification, and the role of artists within it.
WORKS REFERENCED Colouring in Culture - http://colouringinculture.org/
NovaraFM on decapitalism - http://novaramedia.com/2017/12/17/nina-power-decapitalism/
Agit-train (Dziga Vertov & Aleksandr Medvdkin) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agit-train Archigram, Plug-In City - https://www.archdaily.com/399329/ad-classics-the-plug-in-city-peter-cook-archigram Walter Benjamin Embassy Court (Brighton) - http://www.embassycourt.org.uk/ Mark Fisher (k-punk) on rave - http://k-punk.abstractdynamics.org/archives/009782.html RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_class Walter Gropius Stewart Home - 'Keep Hackney crap' - http://www.uncarved.org/blog/2009/08/keeping-hackney-crap/ ANTHONY ILES & J. BERRY SLATER, No Room to Move: Radical Art and the Regenerate City (2009) - http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/no-room-to-move-radical-art-and-regenerate-city JANE JACOBS, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) Fredric Jameson Huw Lemmey - https://www.theguardian.com/profile/huw-lemmey GAVIN MUELLER, 'Liberalism and Gentrification' - https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/liberalism-and-gentrification/ DOUGLAS MURPHY, Last Futures (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/13/last-futures-douglas-murphy-review ALISON & PETER SMITHSON, Robin Hood Gardens - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH5thwHTYNk John Wild - http://www.codedgeometry.net/johnwild/
The General Election of June 2017, and the massive Labour surge under Jeremy Corbyn's socialist leadership, has provided a new sense of optimism for those hoping for an end to utilitarian approaches to culture and swingeing cuts to arts funding. This month, Juliet talks to Loraine Leeson, Hassan Mahamdallie and Hilary Wainwright about the concept of cultural democracy, the recent The World Transformed conference and the Arts for Labour initiative. What are Jeremy Corbyn's arts policies, and how are they informed by the anti-austerity movement? What has been learned from the Greater London Council's arts programmes of the 1980s, or the Attlee government's cultural policies? How did writers and thinkers such as William Morris, E.P. Thompson and Raymond Williams establish a long British tradition of 'cultural democracy', and what can we take from them in the 21st century?
WORKS REFERENCED:
Campaign to save The Cinema Museum: www.cinemamuseum.org.uk
'A Creative Future for All' - https://www.policyforum.labour.org.uk/news/a-creative-future-for-all The Great Exhibition of the North - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-43324069
The Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company - http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/history/companies/gay-sweatshop/ LORAINE LEESON, Art : Process : Change (2017) - https://www.routledge.com/Art--Process--Change-Inside-a-Socially-Situated-Practice/Leeson/p/book/9781138670631 KEN LOACH, The Spirit of '45 (2017) - http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/film-week-spirit-45 HASSAN MAHAMDALLIE on William Morris - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj2/1996/isj2-071/mahamdallie.htm WILLIAM MORRIS, News from Nowhere (1890) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/may/17/guardian190-william-morris-news-from-nowhere HILARY WAINWRIGHT, A New Politics from the Left (2017) - https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/persuasive-points-on-new-politics-from-the-left
American writer, publisher and filmmaker Chris Kraus joins Juliet to talk about the difficulties of experimental filmmaking, her work with Semiotext(e)'s Native Agents series, critical responses to her work on Kathy Acker and the pressures of mainstream success.
WORKS REFERENCED:
Works by Chris Kraus
Books CHRIS KRAUS, I Love Dick (1997) CHRIS KRAUS, Aliens and Anorexia (2000) CHRIS KRAUS, Torpor (2006) CHRIS KRAUS, Summer of Hate (2012)
CHRIS KRAUS, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles (2005) CHRIS KRAUS, Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004) CHRIS KRAUS, Where Art Belongs (2011) CHRIS KRAUS, After Kathy Acker (2017)
Films In Order to Pass (1982) Terrorists in Love (1985) Foolproof Illusion (1986) How to Shoot a Crime (1987) Gravity & Grace (1996)
Other works PENNY ARCADE, Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews (2009) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=213 Bruce Benderson - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=188 BERNADETTE CORPORATION, Reena Spaulings - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=26 ALBERT CAMUS, L'Étranger (The Outsider) (1942) CHARLES DICKENS, Bleak House (1852-53) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleak_House Marguerite Duras Justin Fashanu - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/05/justin-fashanu-and-politics-memory GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, L'Éducation sentimentale (Sentimental Education) (1869) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Education Emily Gould Pierre Guyotat - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=51 RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Connecting Door (1962) - http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-connecting-door/ SHEILA HETI, How Should Be a Person Be? - http://www.sheilaheti.com/how-should-a-person-be/ Michel Houellebecq I Love Dick (TV series) Gary Indiana THE INVISIBLE COMMITTEE, The Coming Insurrection (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=135 Glenn Beck talks about 'The Coming Insurrection' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY7Yvd3cuY0 CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD, Goodbye to Berlin (1939) LARS IYER, Spurious (2011), Dogma (2012) & Exodus (2013) - http://spurious.typepad.com/ JULIET JACQUES, Trans: A Memoir (2015) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/06/juliet-jacques-trans-a-memoir JULIET JACQUES, You Will Be Free (2017) - http://www.studiovoltaire.org/exhibitions/archive/juliet-jacques/ B. S. JOHNSON, Trawl (1966) - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2336211.Trawl Franz Kafka Wyndham Lewis Sylvère Lotringer COOKIE MUELLER, Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302243.Walking_Through_Clear_Water_in_a_Pool_Painted_Black COOKIE MUELLER & VITTORIO SCARPATI, Putti's Pudding (1989) Alain Robbe-Grillet NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 'The Age of Suspicion' - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1964/03/05/nathalie-sarraute/ Claude Simon MICHAEL SNOW, Wavelength (1967) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBOzOVLxbCE LINDA STUPART, 'Chris Kraus and the Empathetic Exchange of Objects' in MIRA MATTAR (ed.), You Must Make Your Death Public: A Collection of Texts and Media in the Works of Chris Kraus - http://www.metamute.org/sites/www.metamute.org/files/You-Must-Make-Your-Death-Public-Chris-Kraus-9781906496647.pdf Lynne Tillman - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=162 JEAN-PHILIPPE TOUSSAINT, Self-Portrait Abroad Transparent (TV series) MASHA TUPITSYN, Beauty Talk & Monsters (2007) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=163 Jackie Wang DAVID WOJNAROWICZ, A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side (1991) - http://semiotexte.com/?page_id=168 Kate Zambreno
One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, the intellectual and ideological nature of the art and culture produced between October 1917 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 remained hotly debated and, at times, poorly understood. Here, Juliet Jacques welcomes writer/critics Maria Chehonadskih, Owen Hatherley (author of Militant Modernism (2009), Landscapes of Communism (2015) and The Chaplin Machine (2016)) and Ilia Rogatchevski to discuss the cultural legacy of the Soviet period and challenge Western preconceptions about the relationship between art and politics in the former USSR, from the Constructivist energy of the 1920s and imposition of Socialist Realism under Stalin, all the way through to the underground art movements of the 1980s.
WORKS REFERENCED:
Maria Chehonadskih on Pussy Riot – https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/what-is-pussy-riots-idea Adam Curtis on Vladislav Surkov - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od4MWs7qTr8
SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Aleksandr Nevsky (1938) SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, Ivan the Terrible (Parts I & II) (1944-1958) SERGEI M. EISENSTEIN, October (Ten Days That Shook the World) (1928) EVALD ILYENKOV (Soviet theorist) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/ ILYA & EMILIA KABAKOV (Moscow Conceptual School) - https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/ VITALI KOMAR (Sots Art founder) - http://www.komarandmelamid.org/ MIKHAIL LIFSHITZ(Soviet philosopher) - https://thecharnelhouse.org/2014/12/15/art-is-dead-long-live-art-mikhail-lifshitz-on-karl-marxs-philosophy-of-art/ EDUARD LIMONOV (National Bolshevik Party) CHRIS MARKER, The Last Bolshevik (1993) - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-happiness-is-making-a-bolshevik-laugh-1459870.html VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, '150,000,000' (1919-1920) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/150_000_000 VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1929) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bathhouse VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bedbug (1928) - http://snoowilson.co.uk/The%20Bedbug.pdf ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN (Soviet filmmaker) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Medvedkin Deimantas Narkevičius (Lithuanian filmmaker/artist) YURI OLESHA, Envy (1927) - https://godsavethetsar.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/dont-laugh-andrei-petrovich-yuri-oleshas-envy/ VIKTOR PELEVIN (Russian author) BORIS PILNYAK, The Naked Year (1928) - http://www.overlookpress.com/ardis/naked-year-1.html ANDREI PLATONOV, The Foundation Pit (1930) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Pit ABRAM ROOM, Bed and Sofa (1927) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/1339/film-club-sofa-and-bed-abram-room VLADIMIR SOROKIN (Russian author) VLADIMIR TATLIN, Letatlin – http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-birdlike-soviet-flying-machine-that-never-quite-took-off VLADIMIR TATLIN, 'Monument to the Third International' (1919-1920, unbuilt) DZIGA VERTOV, The Eleventh Year (1928) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSve8HNjZ4Y DZIGA VERTOV, Enthusiasm: Symphony of the Donbass (1930) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug DZIGA VERTOV, Kino-Pravda (1920s) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0SJyLX9MgQ DZIGA VERTOV, Man with a Movie Camera (1929) DZIGA VERTOV, Stride, Soviet! (1926) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILG1_ceQCzE DZIGA VERTOV, Three Songs of Lenin (1934) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66SYdygrpE VOINA, phallus on Liteiny Bridge, St. Petersburg - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/apr/12/voina-art-terrorism
What are the uses of cultural criticism? How does it improve art and artists, and how much does it impede them? How does criticism intersect with political ideology? What's changed in the age of the internet?
In our pilot episode, Juliet Jacques discusses the uses, possibilities and limits of arts criticism with Fatema Ahmed, who has held editorial positions at Apollo, Granta and Icon, and contributed to numerous publications, and Daniela Cascella, author of En Abîme (2012) and F.M.R.L. (2015), both published by Zero, and Singed (2017, Equus Press).
Works referenced:
NAM JUNE PAIK, Suite (212) (1975) - https://www.eai.org/titles/suite-212 NAM JUNK PAIK, 'Media Planning for the Post-Industrial Society' (1974) - http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/source-text/33/ FENNESZ, 'Aus' (from Hotel Paral.lel, 1997) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4WNWhE45gc BRIAN DILLON, Essayism (2017) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/23/essayism-brian-dillon-review-essays-michel-de-montaigne-georges-perec-joan-didion KATE ZAMBRENO, Heroines (2013) - https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/heroines CHRIS KRAUS, collected works and films - https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/arts/design/chris-kraus-films.html OLIVIA LAING, The Lonely City (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/28/the-lonely-city-olivia-laing-edward-hopper-andy-warhol PIER PAOLO PASOLINI, The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) and La Ricotta (short film in Ro.G.Pa.G, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_od3BxJ2W0 ELENA FERRANTE, La frantumaglia (Fragments) T. S. ELIOT, The Uses of Poetry and the Uses of Criticism - http://tseliot.com/prose/the-use-of-poetry-and-the-use-of-criticism ANATOLI LUNACHARSKY, 'Theses on the Problems of Marxist Criticism' (1928) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lunachar/1928/criticism.htm HELENE CIXOUS, 'The Laugh of the Medusa' (1975) - https://artandobjecthood.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/cixous_the_laugh_of_the_medusa.pdf Ready Steady Book - http://www.readysteadybook.com This Space - http://this-space.blogspot.co.uk ANN QUIN - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/may/08/whocaresaboutannquin ELIZABETH HARDWICK - Seduction and Betrayal (1973) - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1973/05/31/seduction-and-betrayal-i/ ELFRIEDE JELINEK - Nobel Prize acceptance speech (2004) - https://www.nobelprize.org/mediaplayer/index.php?id=721 INGEBORG BACHMANN - 'Literature as Utopia' - http://shirtysleeves.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/a-translation-of-literatur-als-utopie.html GEORGE ELIOT - 'Silly Novels by Silly Lady Novelists' (1856) - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/silly-novels-by-lady-novelists-essay-by-george-eliot BHANU KAPIL - Ban en Banlieue (2015) - http://www.nightboat.org/title/ban-en-banlieue