This year’s degree show for Art and Philosophy offers the viewer a wealth of thought-provoking art works. There are interesting connections between artists’ interests, yet outcomes are hugely varied. Stacey Pover emphasises the healing qualities of art and the power of collaborative expression in performances. She asks participants to take part spontaneously in creating paintings outside Read More
(2015 USA) 24th – 27th March 2017, DCA It is rare that coming of age stories are rewarded with such verity as The Fits. Anna Rose Holmer’s debut film weaves a minimal but complex poetic narrative which centres on Toni (Royalty Hightower), a heedful protagonist whose steady, athletic posture amidst the nervous tension of Read More
Every single year at the DJCAD Degree Show, some of the most thoughtful and inclusive works come from the Digital Interaction and Production Design course. Upon leaving the lifts and entering into the design hub of Level 5, a comforting hum of electricity radiates from the rooms to the right. In other disciplines, personal issues Read More
Milan Kundera’s The Festival of Insignificance seems poetic, personal and political on the one page and then dismissive and cynical on the very next. The novel is the perfect microcosm of the nihilistic modern world, and when that dystopia is set in the historically romantic city of Paris, it turns into a symbol of tragedy. Read More
Thingness? is the latest exhibition to emerge from the Cooper Summer Residency. The Cooper Gallery hosted an interesting group this year, with Joseph Fletcher being the first philosopher to be invited to the residency, to work alongside artists Anouchka Oler and Oliver Braid through discussions and explorations of Object-Oriented Ontology – the privileging of nonhuman Read More