Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...

Glut Press is a new online journal - their 2nd edition ‘Un/familiar’ is out today - fic, nonfic and poetry, and very happy for my lil essay on glossolalia and my own messed up accent to have found a good home. Have a read: www.glutpress.com/editions/un-...

Remix as strategy of hope: my London october exhibition roundup, with Ruoru Mu at Cell, Edward George at Warburg and on: www.e-flux.com/criticism/67...

Draught is now live! www.draughtjournal.com Issue 1.1.1 with contributions by Glenn Adamson, Jen Calleja, Don Mee Choi, Mark Cousins, Daisy Lafarge, Mark Manders, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisa Robertson, Christina Tudor-Sideri and Francesca Wade

Enjoying that the summer blockbuster duel is between what were always the most oppressively normcore comic characters; marvel even going so far as to do an advert linkup with…the UK Gov’t 🫠 #goteam #whitebreadsummer

Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is published today. It tells the 4000 year history of the disease and its stigma, and the remarkable lives of those affected past and present. I am very proud of it, and beyond thankful to those who told their story.

Comic I did for ArtReview earlier this year. Really like this one. Thanks to @cfitewassilak.bsky.social for his wonderful support on it.

My v short review of your breezy creepy beach read

I did a rant in @artreview.bsky.social about all the art food stuff flying about! taking issue with the rhetoric and framing around food practices, celebrating gallery day pints, and food event gloating. 🍿🍰🍦🍖 artreview.com/just-eat-the...

Spike art mag did a Food issue - so I wrote a few appetisers on my buzz: sci fi and cheese - with Woman on the Edge of Time as the definitive sci fi food book, food pills, goats cheese and goat semen. Have a look at issue 83: spikeartmagazine.com/articles/amu...

Got to have a preview gander at @jennylinford.bsky.social ‘s great museum dive Repast, out this month (its saucepans and scrolls an expansive exhibition in book form, tucked in with AR’s April ‘shows to look out for’)

Look ahead to 2025 and eat dirdt: join us at SJQ in Dalston 17th Feb for a night of stretched vocals and electric landscapes, with sets from Mary Hurrell, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Bod Liqbt’s live debut and EP launch. Info n tix: wegottickets.com/event/643317

Compiling, making some sense by re-collecting what i read in 2024, roughly as it happened and typically out of whack. Monstress and Scattered All Over the Earth i think were my highlights

Look ahead to 2025 and eat dirdt: join us at SJQ in Dalston 17th Feb for a night of stretched vocals and electric landscapes, with sets from Mary Hurrell, Hannah Dargavel-Leafe and Bod Liqbt’s live debut and EP launch. Info n tix: wegottickets.com/event/643317

Dublin! Tomorrow night! mirror lamp press issue 10 launch at the Douglas Hyde, with readings from Orit Gat and more. The issue, on giving up, includes Wendy Erskine, Roy Claire Potter, Fergus Feehily, and my own brief ups to give…

Wed night, first time reading from the cheese book! Launching the anthology to mark end of the London Library’s 23-24 Emerging Writers programme; been a quick year but also a total privilege to meet and work with these writers, for what will be many times to come. The anthology is out now!

Pin the tail on the pigoon: I went to the sci fi apocalypse ballet

Riots, Escapism, and Papering over the cracks: going round 30odd shows and getting stuck on 2nd surfaces… my e-flux roundup of London’s autumn exhibitions www.e-flux.com/criticism/63...

Mycelial choirs, microbial memory and chewing on the salt of the earth: bod liqbt 2nd EP ‘Eat Dirdt’ out next week as part of UK Cassette Week tremoloprojects.bandcamp.com/album/eat-di...

Rather than some sort of uneasy ‘other’, they cast AI as more of an unsteady reflection, something Dryhurst describes as “us in aggregate” artreview.com/holly-herndo...

Illusion, delusion and the possibility of ethical AI: in the Oct issue of ArtReview on Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst’s AI chorus at the Serpentine: artreview.com/holly-herndo...

Coltan mines, fireworks, ground-up racehorse bones and relocating ourselves in a dispersed world: got a chance to chat to the expansive artists Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen for the September issue of AR, interview now online too…

PSA: there’s a London art project space directory at the bottom of this article: artreview.com/why-london-u... I’ve tried to keep it up to date, adding a few more recently - get yer skates on, support your local project space

In yokohama - fusing of past and present, and leaving us high and dry. I reviewed the triennial, which was refreshingly free of biennial-showcase bs and more (for the most part) just a well put together, era hopping timeblender

1903 hygiene advice: water? Boil it! Milk? Boil it! Salad? Boil it! And strawberries, definitely strawberries. (More research fun courtesy of Elie ‘sour milk bacteria will make you immortal’ Metchnikoff)

A few weeks away from writing: A Japan cone appreciation post

Asking a grovefull of artists and writers ‘what is microbial writing?’ has eventually led to this: A communal visual-poem-essay 16-page zine. Each copy is rice-indented and yeast-imbued. A limited number are available, £5 pp, all money raised goes to the PEN Emergency fund for Palestinian writers

The contortions of Pasteur’s anti-air ‘swan-necked’ flasks

Research fun, from a 1935 ad for Lyle’s Golden Syrup: ‘it’s gentle laxative effect makes it an important article of children’s diet, and a pleasant substitute for fruit.’ (in The Journal of the Institute of Hygiene)