The Wastes reviewed in STAT Magazine
A great, short, astute review of Roy Claire Potter’s The Wastes by Phoebe Thomas in STAT Magazine, an arts and culture zine for the North West of England.
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Saborami a Burley Fisher Book of 2024
This is really three books in one, an unfolding jack-in-the-box magic that conveys the impish spirit and three-dimensional practice of multimedia artist Cecilia Vicuña.
Turn it one way, and Saborami is a fascinating insight into a 1970s UK counterculture of kitchen-table publishing, radical exhibition spaces and internationalist protests, of which Vicuña became a key part when she found herself in exile from Chile after the Western-backed 1973 coup
The Wastes reviewed in Art Monthly
Roy Claire Potter’s debut novel, The Wastes, is reviewed by Lauren Velvick in the September issue of Art Monthly. It’s rare and welcome for reviewers to consider the book as a whole object in this way – thanks to Lauren and Art Monthly for this comprehensive reading, and shout out to Traven T. Croves for … Continued
Diana Georgiou interviewed by Bridget Penney in 3:am Magazine
3:am Magazine have published an expansive conversation between Diana Georgiou and Bridget Penney, on Other Reflexes. Other Reflexes is Georgiou’s first novel, commissioned by Bridget Penney for the Interstices open call series.
First review of Roy Claire Potter’s The Wastes
Travel, sometimes walking, briefly on a bus, but mostly a journey on a miserable and unreliable commuter train across the Pennines from Liverpool to Hull, is also central to the narrative of The Wastes. The journeyings it recounts are both purposeful and aimless.
What Did You Do… featured in The Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper has published a feature by Henry Broome on our poster project for Palestine, What Did You Do….(2024), raising funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. The series now features 17 posters, including recent additions by: Prem Sahib; Joanna Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan; and Marcus Coates. Read the full article at The Art Newspaper, … Continued
Other Reflexes in Frieze‘s Spring book picks
Frieze have included Diana Georgiou’s Other Reflexes in their What to Read This Spring feature, alongside new novels by César Aira, Han Kang and Fernanda Melchor: “Curator and writer Diana Georgiou’s debut novel is told as five interrelated stories, each connected to one of the senses. It’s the second release in Book Works’s Interstices series, … Continued
Shy Radicals film premieres on Nowness
“As commander-in-chief of the introvert resistance, Hamja is on a never-ending tour to overthrow Extrovert Supremacy. This film is just the beginning.” – Tom Dream
A new film by Tom Dream, inspired by Hamja Ahsan’s book, Shy Radicals, is premiering on Nowness this week.
Detained, Interrogated, Deported: the Art of Border Cruelty
A feature in Art Review by Yen Pham examines artworks that explore the artists’ experiences of detention and deportation at LAX airport while travelling to or through the US. It focuses on two works: Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme (Book Works, 2020) – a graphic novel about Farah’s deportation from LAX en route to a … Continued
Two new reviews of Anamorphosis by Praneet Soi
Praneet Soi’s new book, Anamorphosis, is reviewed in the May issues of Art Monthly and Art Asia Pacific. Ophelia Lai in Art Asia Pacific writes: Anamorphosis is simultaneously sweeping and granular, breaking up allusive collages with strips of text on the experiences of Palestinians the artist encountered. Soi never omits the particularities of his subjectivity … Continued