Her Fantastic Voyage
Jessica Moriarty
From the scourge of illness to the succour of creativity and the solace of friendship, Jessica Moriarty’s essay charts a complementary companion path to Joanna’s Callaghan’s video.
Writing
Our projects are invariably accompanied by specially-commissioned texts, a selection of which are published here.
Riverrun
Steven Bode
A re-run of Steven Bode’s introductory essay from the Portrait of a River accompanying publication.
Echoes from the Void
Gary Zhexi Zhang
Writer and artist Gary Zhexi Zhang traces the underlying meanings and associations of Michael Ho’s Echoes from the Void.
Reflections on Ruth Maclennan’s ‘Treeline’
Ben Rawlence
Author and activist Ben Rawlence finds multiple points of kinship and connection with his own journeys around the arboreal zones of the Arctic in this essay on Ruth Maclennan’s film Treeline.
from a distance, you can make of the water what you will
Zein Sa’dedin
Poet Zein Sa’dedin considers the complex emotions of homecoming and departure through the prism of Zineb Sedira’s Saphir.
Natural Error
Jacob Sam-La Rose
Poet Jacob Sam-La Rose goes back to his Eighties childhood, lit up by its ever-changing parade of new computer-games but clouded by its anxious hints of environmental catastrophe, to crack the code of Rodell Warner’s Natural Error.
Home Bitter Unhome
Rob Young
Author Rob Young, chronicler of British TV esoterica in his compendium ‘The Magic Box’, lifts the lid on the myriad ‘wyrd’ influences lurking in Craig David Parr’s Wings of Love.
Tracks in the Forest
Steven Bode
Steven Bode traces the journey Ori Gersht undertook to research and make The Forest in this catalogue essay from 2005.
Danielle Dean
Rosa Tyhurst
Michael O'Pray Prize 2021: Rosa Tyhurst on Danielle Dean’s subverting of the vampiric strategies at work in brand marketing.
Out in the Open
Sara Quattrocchi Febles
Michael O'Pray Prize 2021: Sara Quattrocchi Febles explores how a film can no longer be fixed in time and place when screened outdoors.
An English Journey
Steven Bode
Steven Bode follows the route of Andrew Cross’s 'English journey' in this catalogue essay from the time.
The Commodity goes on a Journey
Owen Hatherley
In the aftermath of the headlong, headstrong English journey in pursuit of Brexit, Owen Hatherley considers the changing features of a mercantile and architectural landscape clearly signposted in Andrew Cross’s video 3 hours from here: an English Journey.