uncaring juxtapositions and the contextless context of artfair ideology - that time of year again: 5th annual e-flux Criticism frieze week trawl, with indigo+madder, Raven Row, Stephen Friedman Gallery &more: e-flux.com/criticism/5709…

back in the VAN, where I first started writing! where thanks to oritgat I got to write a piece I've been subliminally writing my whole life - comics and art, and what happens when comics get put in galleries! w/Tintin+Beano Somerset House, Rude Brittania Tate, n Beltrán+Satorre

launch of a chunky tome around Avril Corroon's Got Damp project! alongside a host of great contributors, with a text I got to write around her work, mould, and renter's terroir...

Please join us at @TACO_errr on 7 Dec for the launch of Got Damp, a new publication with readings by Daisy Lafarge and Eimear Murphy, who have written texts for the publication alongside with Mat Jenner, Chris Fite-Wassilak Julian and Kirsten Sylvia Cooke

The Prototype Prize is opening for submissions in just 4 weeks’ time! A new, biennial prize for published or unpublished writers and artists working at the intersections of different literary and artistic forms. Detailed guidelines now available here: prototypepublishing.co.uk/2023/09/18/the…

the 'immersive' joyride piece I wrote back in May has a new life here, with a few more pics and many good pagemates

Research fun, from a 1935 ad for Lyle’s Golden Syrup: ‘it’s gentle laxative effect makes it an important article of children’s diet, and a pleasant substitute for fruit.’ (in The Journal of the Institute of Hygiene)

the contortions on pasteur's anti-air 'swan-necked' flasks 🪢

📢 The Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize is now open for submissions! Full submission guidelines ⬇️ graywolfpress.submittable.com/submit

got a chance to spend a few days in Accra, via an invitation from Exit Frame - some brief notes in this issue, incl. Kelvin Haizel Gallery1957, WORLDFAZE ART PRACTICE and FCA Ghana

asked a grovefull of artists&writers 'what is microbial writing?' (as part of The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant explorations), end up with this 16p communal visual-poem-essay zine. limtd copies, rice-indented and yeast-imbued; £5pp, all sales next 3 days go to PEN's #valentinesforpalestine fund

accra times, with Exit Frame, Nuna, Nubuke Foundation, Gallery1957 and more now online...

thinking how lucky i was to have known Hreinn Friðfinnsson. here in 2012 on site of his 1974 inside-out House, finding an ear-shaped volcanic rock i always thought of as Hreinn's ear. keep listening

martha stewart meets silence of the lambs: on Yuzuki's Butter, for ArtReview_ artreview.com/butter-by-asak…

in yokohama - performing dissent, time hopping, and becoming soil

In Maggie Nelson’s collection of reviews, interviews, introductions to other people’s books and commissioned essays for art catalogues, the action feels absent, somewhere else artreview.com/like-love-by-m…

Announcing our line-up of incredible artists, bands & labels releasing exclusive cassette tape titles for Cassette Week UK 2024! #casswkuk24 #cassetteweek #cassettewk #cassettestoreday #cassette #tape #cassettetape

illusions, belief, community, and the possibility of public AI, on Herndon and Dryhurst's recent work and The Call; read/listen/sing