Mirror Lamp Press No4: Fetish
︎ Essay
︎ December 2021
‘High-Temperature Visionary
Obsessions: Towards an Aesthetic
Theory of Fetishism’ – an essay asking whether fetishism might present a valid aesthetic theory (via Bataille, Sontag and Sunset Boulevard), published by Mirror Lamp Press
︎ mirrorlamppress.com
New Contemporaries 2021: Online Platform
︎ Artist Q&A
︎ September 2021
I was invited to ask six New Contemporaries artists a question about their practice for the 2021 Online Platform. Links to each artist’s page below:
︎: Installation view by Aad Hoogendoorn, 2021The Great Invocation, GARAGE, Rotterdam
︎ Catalogue essays
︎ September 2021
Catalogue texts forThe Great Invocation, an exhibtion exploring art, automatism, spirituality and legacies of Surrealism curated by Pádraic E. Moore at GARAGE Museum, Rotterdam. I wrote a text on each of the participating artists, links to each below:
- Mikala Dwyer
- Madge Gill
- Bertus Jonkers
- Jan Kervezee
- Marc Lamy
- Léo Luccioni
- Linder Sterling
- Emma Talbot
- Suzanne Treister
- Sharon van Overmeiren
- Ewoud van Rijn
︎ garagerotterdam.nl
Press Release: Lee Welch, like stars and years, like numerals
︎ Berlin Opticians Gallery
︎ August 2021
Press release for an exhibition of new paintings, running at Berlin Opticians, Dublin from 10 September – 11 October 2021.
︎ berlinopticiansdublin.com
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Bad Taste
︎ Newsletter
︎ January 2021 – ongoing
A Substack newsletter reviewing film, TV, music, art, books, fashion shows – or whatever form of pop culture is grabbing my attention.
Selected by Elephant Magazine as one of the ‘20 Best Culture Newsletters’.
A sample of recent posts:
︎ On Disney’s Cruella ︎ On Netflix’s Halston ︎ On Olivia Laing’s Everybody ︎ On Rachel Kushner’s The Hard Crowd ︎ On Sam McKinniss at Almine Rech ︎ On Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club
︎ badtastebyrosa.substack.com