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Septuplet: How Art Can Nurture Radical Urban Immersion

04/05/2023

Embedded within our individual experience of life is the notion of consumption and presence, by which the parameters of human experience can be constructed (as much as it could be disrupted)....

Chantal Meza, Fragments of a catastrophe XIII. 2018

Do We Need a New Definition of Violence? Brad Evans on Art and Technology Pt 2

06/02/2023

Part two of Trebuchet's interview with Philosopher Brad Evans on violence, history and contemporary life. ...

Chantal Powell, Blood Moon (2021) Damian Griffiths

Primordial Whispers at Arusha Gallery

17/12/2021

An epistemological exhibition on forbidden philosophies, folk knowledge and intuitive spirits via Arusha Gallery...

The Small Infinite

14/07/2021

The gallery as a material is a place-holder and steward of sense, constantly exchanging the outside and the inside....

Concrete Art 1: Colour As Material

05/05/2021

The distinction between primary and secondary qualities, as provided by John Locke, tells us that secondary qualities are accessible only to one mode of perception...

Hannah Arendt As Inspiration

30/10/2020

Gallery builds entire 2021 programme around late political philosopher Hannah Arendt...

Embodying Art

16/07/2020

What is female identity in 2020? Multidisciplinary artist, Sofia Cianciulli, reconnects with her own sense of self and femininity through her practice....

William Kentridge In Praise of Shadows

03/10/2019

The pursuit of truth should not lead us to totalitarian certainty and William Kentridge proposes that art practice is the key to holding illusion and insight in balance. ...

Is God Dead? Ben Caplan Takes Stock

18/09/2019

The sense of historical evolution removes from us a responsibility of safeguarding the hard-won victories of the last 100 years... interview with Hirsute folksinging historian Ben Caplan ...

Escape to Berlin: A Travel Memoir

05/12/2018

Adrian Piper, on Personal Identity, Art and Teaching...

Philosophy and The God of Bleak Things

01/07/2018

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Beyond Factual Ecology: Object Oriented Ontology

12/04/2018

Hyper-objects, which are meta-objects that behave as manifest concepts. These ideas may help us to deal with the pressing issues of our time!...

Nestor Pestana Speculative Designer

23/03/2018

Nestor Pestana is a speculative designer making work that explores the modern world through a philosophers eyes....

The Space That Holds the Stars

22/11/2017

Professor Bobby Acharya on the Depth of Dimensions in Physics and Mathematics...

Escaping the Pursuit of Happiness

24/07/2017

It is no shame to seek sanctuary from the vanity-lousy imps of the collective mind...

Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

06/06/2017

Two of the West's most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head...

Mastering Fear: A User Guide

20/04/2017

What if fear could be used not as a wall, but as a gate? ...

Politics? Environment? In the end, all is transitory.

07/01/2017

The human heart, an inveterate time-traveler, knows its way through the honey-hived portals of time. ...

President Trump, Napoleon and The Eclipse of Dignity

29/12/2016

Does history, art or philosophy offer any survival tips for the incoming US presidency?...

Have An Imaginative Christmas

25/12/2016

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

Escaping the Vortex: Would Wyndham Lewis Have Approved?

23/12/2016

Vorticism's urge to cut away the fat of modern life remains valid today...

Blasted Feminism: Group X, Wyndham Lewis, and Women

07/12/2016

Not one to court populist acclaim, Wyndham Lewis looked upon feminism with a mixture of admiration and scorn...

We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul

02/12/2016

As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh...

Wyndham Lewis, Grayson Perry, David Baddiel and Masculinity

14/11/2016

With power comes reponsibility, as Wyndham Lewis (and Spiderman) knew well. Art is power, not voyeurism....

Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells (Part Two)

27/06/2016

150 years after his birth, the influence of H.G. Wells on contemporary art is still being felt....

Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

17/06/2016

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. ...

Mantra for Fulfilled Living: Battling distraction, addiction and domination

20/04/2016

Be weak, for strength in a violent world is an ignoble tool...

When All is Dark, Have Faith in Night

07/01/2016

By a poetic descent into the underworld, one is confronted with truths that only can be revealed in darkness....

Move Both Directions at Once: Traversing the Greed-Deranged Earth of Neoliberal Capitalism

07/11/2015

Our trajectory must be halted; it is crucial that we become waylaid by the pull of a force larger than ourselves...

A spurious god created by a corrupt elite – Capitalism

30/03/2015

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