Generally when Mohammed and I are together, we get to do what I want to do, because I am more strong-willed and selfish. We call it our cultural imperialism, partly ironically and partly because there is a real measure of actual cultural imperialism in there too.

This meant that it took me over a year of hanging out with him before I saw Emir ( Read more... )

( review of the 2010 berlin biennial - it's long. )

Pandora: still not brainy. This evening I got food delivered, and she got all excited following me over to the table to unpack the boxes etc. I opened up the box of teriyaki chicken and another of salmon sashimi and set them on the table, and she was all crowding round me, clamouring for her share. Anyway, when I went through to the kitchen to get ( Read more... )

Pandora was terrified to be in the same room as my new standing fan, and this is a shame because in temperatures of 44 degrees, I'm completely dependent on it. We solved this by tying her favourite powder blue ribbon to the protective cage thingy and switching the fan to 'swing', making an instant cat toy. She was conflicted at first, and then gave ( Read more... )

Artficial Eye, you rape-supporting shits ( Read more... )

Well, if the newspapers are full of Polanksi apologist shit, my bestest bestest LJers are out in top form.
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Stayed late at Serpentine last night for the screening of 'Darwin's Nightmare', a documentary set in Tanzania about the introduction of Nile Perch into Lake Victoria and the economic/social fallout.

( Darwin's Nightmare )

I'm leaning towards taking the job but need to talk to the last director before I accept. I spent saturday calling everyone I know in Cairo asking for advice. I also want to talk to Ann, director of De Appel. In the mornings I'm full of enthusiasm and ideas, and I've spent the last three nights thrashing about in total panic at the whole idea.

So ( Read more... )

I am trying to convince myself that there is a convincing essay to be written comparing Hairspray to La Commune (Paris 1871). This might simply be in order to make my upcoming task of 4,000 words on La Commune less boring. Here are the facts:

Hairspray: high budget, star-studded comedy musical set on a 1960s song and dance show.
La Commune: six hours ( Read more... )

i have about one hour to submit this redraft of a review of a thoroughly boring and confusing film about abstraction and some artist's email inbox. I have about 75 words to pull it all together and in talking in vague terms about 'abstraction' 'meaniing' and 'repetition' I'm getting nowhere, but seriously, it's a boring as fuck film. I ( Read more... )