Looking forward to presenting an adaptation of a forthcoming journal essay (which I am very excited about, more soon hopefully) at Beyond The Pastoral Symposium on 10 October at University of Brighton. #techneahrc #academicsky

Canadian poet, Erin Robinsong performs her poem 'Anemone' from her collection 'Wet Dream' - last Saturday on stage with acapella collective HOWL @hiddennotes.bsky.social, Stroud UK 💙 Such stage presence (my trimmed bsky clip excludes huge applause & HOWL's beautiful musical rendering of the poem!)

But you actually can’t kill beauty So the economy is very unstable Erin Robinsong (Wet Dream, Brick Books, 2022)

anyone using cinelogue? im very curious going to subscribe next month

Despite how much I have enjoyed using Mubi over the years, I have just cancelled my Mubi subscription until Mubi meets the demands of @filmworks4pal.bsky.social and Sequoia Capital divests from the streaming brand. Art should not serve genociders. updates.techforpalestine.org/fact-checkin...

Re-jigged my 2025 visiting lecture for fine art first years on film and performance to bring the AI caveats that were at the end, to the beginning - under the theme of remix, collage, textuality (and ethics / legality)... A little precursor to Dada and collage doesn't go amiss. (📷 Hannah Höch, 1930)

Bristolian artists 🎺 Trumpets Against Trump 🎺 the band gathers to perform a discordant drone piece whenever Donald Trump visits the UK during his presidency.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

I LOVE how much this conversation captures big and small: localism, people power, transnational exchange, #listening, our pathological economics - and a hefty note of urgency - climate, inequality, and fascism. Democracy needs these people (and all of us). Hard to keep up @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🔥

Isaac Herzog is named directly in the UN report which states clearly that Israel is committing genocide - he is named as one of the figures inciting genocide. Last week Keir Starmer felt it was fit to roll our the red carpet for Herzog on in a visit to Britain.

Solidarity with all the sisters in Oldbury and the entire community who gathered tonight in a vigil... www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

The UK government's decision to welcome Donald Trump to the UK for a second presidential visit, where he is likely to be feted by Starmer's government, further normalises the extreme misogyny Trump represents.

Way to go, UK! 🇬🇧 Channel 4 is airing a one-hour marathon of Trump’s lies to mark his arrival.

The Archive’s Artist-in-Residence Program will host an emerging artist for two weeks during the late spring of 2026 to activate the Archive’s collection in their artistic practice, focusing on the Hearst Metrotone News, In the Life LGBTQ+ series and/or KTLA News collections. cinema.ucla.edu/air2026

A friend described Saturday in Faversham as a dark day. Everyone wondered why were the police 40 mins late? Saturday saw hundreds of police deployed to Parliament Sq to arrest peaceful protestors holding signs - got anything to do with it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #Labour #priorities

From the Women's Art Library and @feministreview.bsky.social Art in the Archive Bursary: Call for Proposals 2025 Deadline 5pm, Friday 31st October 2025 sites.gold.ac.uk/womens-art-l...

An animal is not an IT or a WHAT. An animal is a HE, SHE, THEY, THEM or a WHO. Our language should reflect this.

Attending online for Becoming Voice conference today @ljmuofficial.bsky.social - incredible vocal keynote performance lecture to open from #ElaineMitchener "if we don't fight if we don't persist..." @irenerevell.bsky.social @morelikethat.bsky.social @silver-press.bsky.social

Hoping LUX will create a presence on this platform... but in the meantime... #filmsky #artistmovingimage #artistfilm #artsjobs lux.org.uk/vacancies/op...

Excited about 'The Unseen' / Nespatřené (1997) Dir. Miroslav Janek 14 September @cubecinema.com cubecinema.com/programme/ev...

As a culture reporter during wartime, sadly, I have to write a lot of obituaries. This one recounts the life of David Chichkan, committed anti-fascist artist who died defending Ukraine on the front line. My latest for @kyivindependent.com. kyivindependent.com/ukraine-mour...

Gaza's journalists have been reporting bravely throughout the genocide. Anas Al-Sharif, was reporting up the minutes he was targeted and killed last night. In his final Instagram post, he asked that we share his message to all with the power to help end the massacre. I think that's all of us. RIP.

I’ve just signed up to mentor again, do consider it if you’ll have a little time to share your experience of working in the arts/creative industries.

The scholarly apparatus of foot noting and bibliography upholds the same values as "right to repair". We should be able to understand and fix for ourselves the things we engage with in the world. Give me the tools to understand what you've made.

Gramsci's prison notebooks (which I came to via Pasolini) and their expansive bibliography generated by his writings... are said to 'hold 15,000 items in 33 languages, spanning a huge range of subjects.'- Paola Merli. A biblio-factoid to share from what feels like a summer of endless referencing.

"The machinery of death must be stopped, not merely slowed." @crisisgroup.org's latest statement on the situation in #Gaza. www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-...

The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born - The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Thanks to James McCarthy who it seems must have bothered their line manager enough to say "guys, maybe this should be reported?" Which it now has been, a day later. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... And thanks to @nlygo.bsky.social for spotting.

Congratulations to the Lionesses! #Lionesses #EuropeanChampions

Stroud Ceasefire Now vigil 25.7.2025 - We are getting some bigger numbers after media started to do its job and report on the genocide in Gaza. Usually silent, we banged our pots making some noise FAO David Lammy, Keir Starmer. A sobering cry internationally - calling for an end to the starvation.

Some background here to Peter Wollen's notebooks in the BFI National Archive, a collection at the centre of my PhD research with BFI. In my project dozens of pages of Wollen's notebooks are hand copied, pencil only! #fictioning #artistmovingimage #archive #expandedfilm www.bfi.org.uk/features/obj...

Unimagining Borders…

My friend Riffy Directed this music video for artist: ETAF (Kuwaiti/Palestinian) for a track called ‘Hey Habibi’- it’s out online today! Would be grateful if you watch and share! Shukran! 🙏🏽❤️‍🔥🤩💪🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckzn...

It was good to be back at BFI Southbank to give a talk on my research 'Notes freely created and kept, subjectivities in palimpsest: Researching to Imagine' at the BFI Research showcase on Monday... Thanks to Barry Dixon and Ania Ostrowska at BFI Research. Friends, 2025 is the year I will submit(!)

Recommend accessing the YouTube recording of 'Reading the Crisis' once available and accessing free download of Hall's 2004 text 'For Edward Said'. Thanks to SHF, Brenna Bhandar & Hashem Abushama. Part of SHF 2025 programme @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social www.stuarthallfoundation.org/event-news/r....

I average 3 x A5 pages of writing in my journal each morning but today wrote 7.5, half of them about Robina Rose's Nightshift, 1981, screened at BFI last night thanks to Cinenova. A dark red film, Jordan's face pale and convex. After writing I read @cinemiasma.bsky.social mubi.com/en/notebook/...

People who care about creative HE and the ability to pursue these subjects in all parts of the UK: please sign this petition on behalf of University of Plymouth staff and students chng.it/jSVxjwF9sS

“Wanda’s dereliction of her wifely and motherly station lands her literally in a no-place, where she must again barter and renegotiate her utility and value, and her ongoing survival.” – Elena Gorfinkel / @cinemiasma.bsky.social

I appreciated this artist film by Rowena Harris. Their work advocates unequivocally for those who have experienced medical gaslighting and makes the "double whammy" of M.E together with Long Covid tangible -- built across sequences exploring archive, gravity, care, disbelief... #artistmovingimage

Looking forward to the current Spike Island / Chisenhale commission by Dan Guthrie touring to the locality of the work in Stroud next week with Q&A. Ends at Spike Island in Bristol on Sunday! www.sva.org.uk/events/dan-g...

Receiving my first peer-review edits hasn't been as onerous as I imagined... I've actually really enjoyed grappling with the close attention they have put into my text this week. This is clearly why ppl have editors! More specifics soon... but thank you to the three editors, named and anonymous. 🧡

Great to learn about this dedicated screening of Nightshift by Robina Rose at BFI Southbank | May 13 whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

Olufemi owes nothing to the place, but wow could #Stroud use this text to face and feel the rage of an anathema that has persisted for 250 years, minus periods of restoration. earf.info/journal/let-...

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 40,000+! You can #DoTheWriteThing & stop #MetaBookThieves by adding your signature here ✒️ authr.uk/sp40

A short list of anti-AI tools. codeberg.org/wimvanderbau...

I don't have many of my films on YouTube (only this one) but impressed to see 1.1K views for my commission with the legendary Women's Art Library, based at Goldsmiths University. If you're a programmer interested in a screening 👉 email distribution[at]lux.org.uk ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr9y...

This all came up at the same time as the cuts to Disability Benefits by the UK Government. It's just vile how Disabled people are being treated. Solidarity with Disabled people and their advocates who are calling for "taxing wealth and not ill-health" 👏 PIP is the bare minimum! Cuts Kill!