Hello. I hope you and your loved ones are keeping safe and well in the continuing weirdness. Here’s a round-up of a few things I’ve been up to that might be of interest. Something for the weekend: This Is Not a Dream streaming online Back in 2011, Gavin Butt and I made a feature […]
Fancy £200 for doing an artists’ workshop about queer hope, support, mutation and fun? Dr Duckie’s on the case, in collaboration with Folkestone Fringe and the Live Art Development Agency.
Link to a recent conversation with Bernadette Russell for her podcast about new forms of hope in difficult times.
The Netflix series about a young Hassidic woman who breaks with her community asks who and what human lives are for.
Now live: online resources from my doctoral research about Duckie and homemade mutant hope machines, including open-access PhD thesis and an hour-long talk.
Two Netflix documentaries offer contrasting visions of worlds beyond the mainstream, set up by outsiders on their own terms. What can they teach us about life after the pandemic?
Linking to an article based on my PhD research with Duckie – about The Slaughterhouse Club drop-in arts project for people living with homelessness – in the academic journal article Performance Research.
Info about my recent and upcoming activity including responses to the coronavirus pandemic, Dr Duckie latest and coverage of BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom and Bourgeois & Maurice’s Insane Animals.
A review of this year’s shorts selection – co-produced by BFI Flare and the British Council to be viewed online around the world – in the context of the festival’s cancellation because of coronavirus.
