Oceans 4.0
Oceans 4.0 in Autumn 2019 was the first show I curated for FACT Liverpool as its new director. It heralded
Performing ‘boardness’
I haven’t posted since I joined FACT Liverpool as its Director in May 2019. I guess I’ve been busy –
Leaving Arts Catalyst after 25 years
In April I left Arts Catalyst, the organisation I founded 25 years ago, to take up my new post as
The Live Creature and Ethereal Things: Physics in Culture
The Live Creature and Ethereal Things: Physics in Culture – edited by curator Nicola Triscott and artist Fiona Crisp, published by Arts Catalyst – is a collection of texts, images and conversations that present fundamental physics and the physics of the universe as human activities and cultural endeavours.
Dreamed Native Ancestry (DNA) : Re-thinking race and migration
In 1977, NASA launched two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, into space to study the outer solar system. Passing beyond our sun’s planetary
Curating contemporary art in the framework of the planetary commons
My paper ‘Curating contemporary art in the framework of the planetary commons’ was recently published in The Polar Journal. Volume
PhD Thesis: Curating the Co-Inquiry
I was recently awarded a PhD by Published Work from the University of Westminster, and – because of several requests
Revisiting Fukushima: responses to an ongoing disaster
I visited Fukushima in 2014. Fukushima. The word – like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island – is synonymous with nuclear
New book: ARIEL GUZIK – HOLOTURIAN
Arts Catalyst recently published this small publication to mark the planned launch of Ariel Guzik’s Holoturian in the Gulf of California in
Conflict Minerals: extractive capitalism
Extractive capitalism has spread over our world with a rapacious force. From the mineral-rich Congo to mountaintop removal coal mining
All at sea
Let us talk about oceans. About resilience. About the sailor. During the past week, I have had the joy of spending
Graveyard of Lost Species: a monument for a changing estuary
A few weeks ago, Arts Catalyst launched the Graveyard of Lost Species, a public monument by artists YoHa (Graham Harwood
The active role for culture in a divided nation
A surprising number of people have said to me lately that they don’t know any Leave supporters at all. So I
Critical art and outer space: examining space as a global commons
The ‘Critical Issues in Outer Space’ session at the Association of American Geographers’ huge Annual Meeting in San Francisco last
Acronyms, bat caves and sentient architecture: February update from Washington DC
So here I am, back in Washington DC on Super Tuesday (writing this the day before I post), observing a
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