Call home
Do you know Bill Forsyth’s film Local Hero? It dates from 1983 and centres on a remote Scottish community whose
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The parliament of invisible people
You see them sometimes, late at night, cleaning offices for people they never meet; or unloading vans from empty bus
‘When will I be loved?’
I’ve been made blue, I’ve been lied to When will I be loved? I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed
Art across borders
Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You
Cui bloody bono?
The speech of women There is a paradox, acknowledged by the speaker herself, in a woman giving a lecture about
Friendly Interest
For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people
Truth, lies and drawing ink
Documentary filmmakers have an obvious problem with everything that happened before the invention of photography. How do you make a
An artist out of time
I was driving home through the Scottish Borders—like Debatable Lands everywhere, this lovely region is used to strangers—when I passed
A culture of received ideas
Last night was the opening of Bill Ming’s exhibition at New Art Exchange in Nottingham, his first substantial solo show
Art’s liberating deniability
Monk: An intellectual ventriloquist: that’s an oxymoron. Nina: What’s an oxymoron? Monk: Well if you don’t know, why did I
Parliament of Dreams 