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Portal, Resting Place of My Head Carpets have an odd smell, they are musty, but not dusty. A bit like twine, earthy, but they have a sourness, something citrus, something that catches at the back of...
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R.M.B.S
It was said that digital banking systems could never fail: but a few men had already made this their end. The traders were good at spotting failure and had a special talent for obfuscation....
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It was all quite new to us, the year before was marked as the time when we bought more books online than offline. We did go to physical books shops, the ones that were still around, but only to buy...
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Containers, Contained.
This piece was originally published in the digital programme of the Royal Opera House’s production ‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny’....
View ArticleThe Leaning Tower of Venice by Ralph Rumney. Introduced by José da Silva
*This introductory essay appears in ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design.* ‘The Leaning Tower of Venice’ was...
View ArticleARK magazine from cover to cover
This text appears in ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine published by the Critical Writing in Art & Design programme. The essay draws attention to the important role of the...
View Article‘A most Sophisticated Weapon’ by Derek Hyatt and A. J. Bisley, ARK 21, Spring...
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. The...
View ArticleLicking the pants off magical ads
This text appears in the forthcoming ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. It introduces...
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The Hecklers
*This essay appears in Ends Meet: Essays on Exchange published by Critical Writing in Art & Design.* Still from Joseph Strick’s The Hecklers (BBC, 1966) -The device of heckling on both...
View Article‘Shoes hair and coffee’ by Toni del Renzio ARK 20, Autumn 1957 Introduced by...
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art....
View ArticleAn Alternative Glossary of Exchange
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, Ends Meet: Essays on Exchange, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. Trying to secure the significance of a word...
View ArticleA Poor Exchange: Detroit’s Art as Bailout
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, Ends Meet: Essays on Exchange, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. In September 1931, Detroit’s famed...
View ArticleUtopia Unrealized: The Fun Palace
*This text appears in the forthcoming book, ARK: Words and Images from the Royal College of Art Magazine 1950-1978, published by Critical Writing in Art & Design at the Royal College of Art. It...
View ArticleIn place of London’s tollgates
Conducting a survey of the sites of tollgates that once occupied London’s roads, with ideas of journeys and land access in mind and trying to better understand where the traveller had paid for access...
View ArticleThe Heart of Darkness
At the end of the twentieth century, just as political faith in the idea of community had crumbled for good, the greater institution of art took a social turn.[1] Practices loosely categorised as...
View ArticleHouse Guests
This descriptive text responds to the painting ‘Mother in Bed’ by Austrian painter Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, which was put on display at Kettle’s Yard Museum in Cambridge as part of their House...
View ArticleWhat can happen on a rectangular shape?
On postcards, colours are sewn up to dress the world. Threads, seemingly without meaning, are made into elaborate inventive garments. Material forms come into view and frame concrete figures, outlining...
View ArticleThe Other Line
The tram stopped several times along Olsanska, the long straight road that runs away from the Prague’s centre before the line curves north. The door to the building was heavy. Inside, the staircase was...
View ArticleArt on the Road
A pitch for arts television written for John Wyver. By Clo’e Floirat, Christina Manning Lebek and David Morris. ‘In a historic year for Land Art, Miranda Sawyer takes the viewer on a 3000km road trip...
View ArticleClo’e Floirat: drawing Crit’ writing
“Designer, ex- Illustrator, no - Artist, perhaps - Critic, certainly – ” From the tip of Clo’e’s pen comes not only a line in vision but a line in thought. It is often upheld that the art of...
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