Martin Eve on Joanna Bourke, Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present On my birthday, at the end of May this year, a package arrived from my esteemed colleague in Birkbeck’s Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Joanna Bourke. The timing of the package
Martin Eve catches up with Contemporary Slo-Mo Electro A certain colleague in the Department of English & Humanities frequently teases me about my love of “banging techno” – as he mischievously terms any bass-heavy contemporary electronic music to which I listen. Nevertheless, and as with
Daragh Carville on Paul Muldoon and PJ Harvey, Lancaster Words Festival, July 7, 2017 2013 saw the publication of The Word on the Street, the first collection of song lyrics by the poet Paul Muldoon. Then in 2015 came The Hollow of the Hand, the first
Joseph Brooker on Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship at the Towner Art Gallery The painter and engraver Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) was raised in Eastbourne on the Sussex coast, and has lately been adopted as a central instance of Sussex art. His watercolour paintings
Joseph Brooker on Damsels in Distress and A Quiet Passion. I happened to see Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (2011) and Terence Davies’ new film A Quiet Passion (2016) in quick succession, and thought about them together. Stillman became cherished in the 1990s for a
Seda Ilter interviews Lily Hunter Green on Bee Composed Live Lily Hunter Green is a musician, composer and visual artist whose work focuses on environment and marginality. Green’s inventive piece Bee Composed (a part of her project Decomposed, exhibited at the Brighton Dome for the Brighton International Festival,
Seda Ilter on Andy Smith’s Summit (Brighton Festival, 2017) May 2017: Brexit is happening, the Conservatives repeat their immigration pledge in the election campaign, the NHS is suffering, war in Syria is killing more children every day, global warming is rapidly affecting human lives while
Seda Ilter on Andy Smith, ‘Dematerialising Theatre’ (Birkbeck Arts Week 2017) Award-wining theatre maker Andy Smith’s talk ‘Dematerialising Theatre’ at Birkbeck Arts Week (organised & chaired by Daragh Carville) offered insights into his approach to theatre and involved its audience in collective thinking about the
Joseph Brooker on America after the Fall: Painting in the 1930s at the Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts’ exhibition of American paintings only occupies three large rooms, and even looking closely at much of the work I saw it all in
Martin Eve on The White Devil by John Webster at the Wanamaker Playhouse The White Devil is, by many standards of judgement, a pretty terrible play. It features a large cast of characters who appear and disappear extremely quickly, making it very difficult to follow.