Monthly Archives: August 2009

‘What the hell was Colin doing with a Limehouse minicab driver in Belfast? ‘

Posted on August 27, 2009 by cosmopolitanscum

A really nice bit of flaneury at Homo Ludens,  which identifies exactly what makes the former docks at Wapping in London such a profoundly dispiriting, disorientating experience.

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Architecture and Ai Wei Wei

Posted on August 21, 2009 by cosmopolitanscum

Transcription of an interview with Ai Wei Wei. He’s doing the answers. Pictures are by me.  What is the method of construction of your latest exhibition? This is Chinese household furniture that folks have been using for thousands of years. … Continue reading →

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Born To Work

Posted on August 21, 2009 by cosmopolitanscum

More images from Born to Work by Nick Hedges. What is so astonishing about these pictures is the way they are so vivid even if the world they inhabit is gone for ever. Nick manages to simultaneously capture the human … Continue reading →

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A True Commonwealth

Posted on August 12, 2009 by cosmopolitanscum

Jordan Baseman’s excellent art piece which was displayed at the Collective Gallery in Edinburgh earlier this year tiptoes cleverly around some of the aesthetic and political issues that surround Britain’s civic modernist heritage.

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