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Elsewhereness at Manchester’s FutureEverything

Popped down to Manchester briefly to see some of the Futureeverything festival exhibits.  Probably the most interesting work I saw was a video installation by Anders Weberg and Robert Willem called Elsewhereness, which used video/photographic footage of Manchester sourced online to create an undulating collage of flickering cityscapes.  The inherent ‘elsewhereness’ in the work was … Continue reading

Newcastle upon Tyne & Architecture

I am living in a city that one could say is profoundly defined by its absences. A huge section of its heart is missing, and in its place is an intestinal creep of a shopping mall built in the early 1970s over the site of terraces and streets built in 1824. It is currently hemorrhaging … Continue reading

Psychogeography and…Ikea

Sometimes I get the feeling that if I walked through  Ikea entirely in the opposite direction to the one insisted by the blue or yellow arrows on the floor, against something so intrinsic to the store’s fabric, that some sort of supermassive black hole would materialize out of the collective implosion of other customers – … Continue reading