Posts by Jamie Wyld

Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag – UK screening tour

“The Joiner’s Arms smelt, tasted, sounded and felt like freedom.” Dan Glass, 2018 Trojan Horse / Rainbow Flag is a programme of artists’ film and video about LGBTQI+ spaces, presented by videoclub in LGBTQI+ clubs and community run spaces across the UK. At a time when queer spaces are increasingly under threat from gentrification the…

Both Sides Now 5: Ho Yan Pun Nicole in residence in UK

Throughout March 2019, Ho Yan Pun Nicole is artist in residence for Both Sides Now 5 with The Marlborough Pub & Theatre in Brighton. While in the UK, Nicole will be meeting with artists and organisations. During the residency, she will be developing a new work exploring gender performativity and the ambiguous space between private and public….

Flashing Green: Notes on Post-Nature, the 11th Taipei Biennial by Marcus Jack

‘Mycelia can save the world’, artist and co-curator of this year’s Taipei Biennial, Mali Wu tells us with ardent optimism. Post-Nature – A Museum as an Ecosystem, curated alongside Francesco Manacorda, goes on to articulate this foundational belief by collating projects from artistic, filmic, activist, and architectural contexts that interpret this in degrees literal and…

Artist talk by Di Fang at Phoenix, Leicester

Di Fang will talk about his exhibition Streets Paved with Pearl – showing at Phoenix in Leicester till 23 December – and his practice as an artist filmmaker, both solo and as part of the collective Jiū Society. Venue: Phoenix, 4 Midland Street, Leicester LE1 1TG Date and time: Sat, 15 December 19 at 3pm Price: FREE – no booking…

Highlights of Busan Biennale – Abigail Addison

This was my first visit to the Busan Biennale, and having been the day before to the vastly overpopulated Gwangju Biennale, the Busan Biennale curators’ choice of focusing on the work of just 66 artists meant that there was more breathing space to invest the necessary time to properly engage with the works and to…