Society Archives - Trebuchet

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Dancing Queen: Barbarella Brings Italo-Disco Glamour to Canary Wharf

25/06/2025

Big Mamma's latest venture serves elevated Italian classics in a '70s setting...

Trebuchet 17: Destinations / Out Now

29/04/2025

Journeys and destinations in Art...

Image shows Manifesta Barcelona Three Chimneys site

What waves banners of protest? The breeze or the breeze block?

10/02/2025

Tracing the signs of turbulence at Manifesta 15, Barcelona 2025....

Image shows installation view of R.I.P. Germain a FACT, Liverpool

As Above, So Below: R.I.P Germain At FACT Liverpool

19/09/2024

Social codes and behaviour cues are rendered moot with R.I.P. Germain's latest installation....

From One Underground to Another: The Wolfboy of Rego Park

12/09/2024

Jeffrey Wengrofsky chronicles a vividly violent, sometimes dreamy New York underworld in The Wolfboy of Rego Park...

Barbershop Boor (2022) 1m x 1m oil on canvas by Michael Eden.

Goya in Time-Based Media (Reflecting on the summer of 2024)

15/08/2024

Excoriating and insightful, painter and poet Michael Eden reflects, in verse, on the machinations of the mob....

Book cover of Philosophy of the Home by Emanuele Coccia

The Home and the Heart — Apart at Last

12/06/2024

Theory meets anecdote in philosopher Emanuele Coccia’s new work....

D_ance for the Disappeared

11/07/2023

A performance exploring disappearance through paint and dance. ...

Art is like a Love Affair: Tina Grønning

16/09/2022

An interview with Art collector Tina Grønning ...

The Beauty of Packaging

24/01/2022

Owning something physical, the open-eyed landscape of the tactile imagination....

LandOfDreams, Ghasem Ebrahimian Bon Voyage Films and Palodeon Pictures, (2021)

Hark the Nordic Sirens of Hypnotic Cinema

06/01/2022

Göteborg Film Festival promises a genre-breaking crossover of vision and transcendence. ...

Maya Stanfield-Mazzi’s book provides the first broad survey of church textiles of Spanish America, demonstrating that, while overlooked, textiles were a vital part of visual culture in the Catholic...

Shot To Fame: Remembering Terry O’Neill

16/11/2020

'One Year On' Box Galleries highlights the late photographer Terry O'Neill's eternal talent. ...

Virginia Woolf Might Have Preferred an Audiobook

16/11/2020

What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? shines brightest when it focuses not on Woolf’s life, but on her actual words and how she used them. ...

Imagining Orwell in Three Continents

13/11/2020

Julio Etchart's photographic journal presents a short cautionary tale that questions the foreshadowing of one man's visionary works and the cyclical quality of time. ...

Wardruna – Norwegian Contemporary Folk Art

18/10/2020

“Kvitravn” is a song that explores traditions of animal-guides and the symbolism and legends of sacred white animals...

Underdogs Will Rise, Biography as Music

05/10/2020

A Review of James Kennedy "Noise Damage: My Life As a Rock’N’ Roll Underdog" (Lightning Books, 2020)...

The Surrealist Practice of Twenty-First Century Populism

14/09/2020

‘Surreal’ is a word that many increasingly reach for, a (hopelessly inadequate) description for the daily cavalcade of cataclysmic and bizarre events we’re confronted by....

Espresso, Chianti… Maser-a-ti!

22/07/2020

In 2020: The Summer of COVID, interweb-streaming Italian-racecar cool is about as close to true freedom as car buffs are likely to get. ...

In Bright Axiom: The House of the Latitude

14/07/2020

As an introduction to the secret society, this documentary is a disjointed narrative where the whole is less than the sum of occasionally fascinating parts....

Always-On, All-the-Time: COVID in the World of 24/7 News

01/07/2020

Two decades into a fundamentally new media environment, we’re still discovering the impact of the Internet on the information we consume — COVID-19 exposes some of the damage done....

© Nicola Anthony, date stamp drawing, 2006

Surviving Lockdown: On Community and Inclusivity

19/06/2020

Part five of Surviving Lockdown talks creating strong community groups to help rebuild society post-pandemic, with anti-racism as an intrinsic part of a new future. ...

When Gonzo Met Farce

05/06/2020

Conception unknown, The Buried Spitfires of Burma: A ‘Fake’ History is a tortured love child of Thompson’s Rum Diary and Poe’s "Gold Bug". ...

Isolation Walks: A Visual Meditation

03/06/2020

If we are ever to emerge from this dystopian vision with poise, we will have to be extra humble, strong and empathetic. ...

Architecture and Aesthetic Errors

29/05/2020

Modernist architecture, seen as art, falls into aesthetic error when it fails to address the nature of the lives encompassed by it....

© Nicola Anthony, The Flow of Time, 2017

Surviving Lockdown: Daryl Goh on Self-Judgement

27/05/2020

Up next in the series, Nicola Anthony examines guilt, and how artists can objectively evaluate their own work whilst ignoring the niggling voice of self-judgement. ...

Gorillas, Trains, Whips and Chains

20/05/2020

Barring no holds, Hollywood Bound is a well-curated, hilariously captioned collection of major-studio movie bondage that serves up equal helpings entertainment and old-Hollywood nostalgia. ...

His Holiness Blinded Me With Science

16/05/2020

If the viewer focuses intensely in The Dalai Lama: Scientist, such effort will be rewarded with insight, if not total consciousness…...

Surviving Lockdown: Tabish Khan and the Inner Critic

06/05/2020

Part three explores the feelings of self-lambasting that many people experience when given the time and space to turn the critical eye upon their lives. ...