Category Archives: the Retro Bar at the End of the Universe

Teresa Mayday (Writings From HMS Brexit)

This cut of HMS Brexit is a montage of considerations and conversations held in urban Yorkshire around Teresa May Day, 2017. The election promise of more bank holidays is perhaps the most worryingly feeble soundbite the Labour Party have pitted against May’s iron-agenda of “a vision of a man chipping ice off his windscreen andContinue reading “Teresa Mayday (Writings From HMS Brexit)”

This isn’t even Ballard’s ‘Glorified Lifeboat’ (Writings From HMS Brexit)

This voyage, perhaps even whole flat earth that it navigates, has reached an end point. This is an epochal moment – yet we duck, dive, and talk about following our forefathers’ impossible footsteps into yesterdays’ jobs, homes and families, where hair goes grey and skin wrinkles with the pride of purpose. These footsteps lurch overContinue reading “This isn’t even Ballard’s ‘Glorified Lifeboat’ (Writings From HMS Brexit)”

Now That’s what I Call Capitalism 2016

(A writing for the Retro Bar at The End of The Universe Collective) Apparently Generation Y arrived in January 1984. This means my sense of stuckness could be down being born in a generational hinterland. Actually no: we are all stuck, stuck in the deep mud between the end of something and something….something else, thatContinue reading “Now That’s what I Call Capitalism 2016”

Stories From Time-locked Space. 3

Free-fall in Stasis (Barnsley, The First Week of Winter, 2016) Walking back to the suburbs through an M1 junction-hinterland in the dark of a new winter. But nothing feels new. It’s late 2016. To Ride The Fine Line of Purpose on Placebos…  …that’s what I achieved ten years ago this winter month. And I’ve even tried listeningContinue reading “Stories From Time-locked Space. 3”

Stories From Time-Locked Space. 2 Illusions of ‘otherness’ – Over The Pennine Horizon Darton-to-Wakefield-to-Mirfield-to-Huddersfield-Manchester-to-Leeds-to-Darton (Northern Rail-to-Grand Central-to-Northern  Rail-to-Transpennine Express-to Northern Rail. September 2016. “Today’s Manchester is dominated by the sounds of the trams. They beep, clunk and even scream as they turn on the tracks, in spaces so close to pavements you wonder how they allContinue reading

(Stories From Time-locked Space. 1)

Leeds Under Pre-Digital Rain (2016). “Always a higher level of caution in your gait when arriving in Leeds on a Saturday – 52 times a year, not including Xmas and bank holidays – as if I’ve walked over a picket line for piss ups, which is far less unnerving if you have a designated pissContinue reading “(Stories From Time-locked Space. 1)”

Under Digital Rain (in photos)

I am showing my work in Under Digital Rain, a show curated by John Wright, alongside artist Alexandra Gallagher’s Humanity’s Intellectual World, at Bowery Gallery in Headingley Leeds. Under Digital Rain is part of an ongoing project (dialogue?) between myself and John Wright called The Retro Bar at the End of Universe, and on theContinue reading “Under Digital Rain (in photos)”

3 Days of Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record in London

Reflections gathered from performance in the Anti-Gallery Show, weekend 16,17,18, January 2015 This text is a reflection on the performing of Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record – inspired by Ivor Southwood’s book Non-Stop Inertia. Part of a wider collaborative project between myself and Leeds-based artist/curator John Wright, Non-Stop Inertia was played intermittently over a 3Continue reading “3 Days of Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record in London”

Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record (performance)

Interruption encouragement! Artists intervention at Leeds Art Gallery this Friday (18th July) from 1-2pm. Artist John Wright and I will be performing a philosophical debate. Visitors are encouraged to interrupt. Here’s a piece of writing I have made regarding my take on the performance Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record: Non-Stop Inertia is a performance pieceContinue reading “Non-Stop Inertia: A Stuck Record (performance)”