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This Week
💦 a ghost who can spy
💦 a rogue Tesla cyborg blows the kid up into a red mist
💦 free falafel wraps
Events
No rain is forecast for the next seven days – and there’s less than a month ‘til the 4-day Easter bank holiday weekend. Basically, it’s almost summer! There’s no excuse not to see some super exciting shows this week. Mazzie Mae Green’s exhibition/micro art fair of project spaces and upcoming galleries – City Entwined – promises to be the start of something great!
🧊 24 March | 6pm | Artist-led tour: RIP Germain, VO Curations [Oxford Circus]
🧊 24 March | 6–11pm | I Knock On Your Skin (group show), SET Woolwich [Woolwich Arsenal]
🧊 24 March | 6–9pm | Paul Barlow: 00:00:00, South Parade [Deptford]
🧊 24 March | 6–8pm | Simon Linke, Darren Flook [Oxford Circus]
🧊 25 March | 6–9pm | City Entwined, group show curated by Mazzie Mae Green, Paradise Row [Bond Street]
🧊 26 March | 4–9pm | Mythopoeia, curated by Amanda Ba, ACROSSS [Shoreditch High Street]
Exhibitions
Mark Leckey, CABINET, until 30 April, information here
Mark Leckey recently revealed that he has been thinking about zombies and poetry. The hoardes turned out for his opening at CABINET last Friday – catered with free falafel wraps – to take in a range of video and sculptural works. The centrepiece was a bus stop cum video installation repeatedly looping footage of a youth running into a bus stop advertising panel and smashing their way through to the other side. The violent, scary and hedonistic footage – which Leckey had pirated from a UK banter-type social media channel – manufactured a chilling and anxious vibe, aided with a loud and ASMR-like accompanying audio track. Downstairs, the elevator opened to spectral, child-sized and zombie-like mannequins decked in sportswear – frozen in time and haunted by a glowing, lurid yellow lamp. Feelings of abandonment, isolation and anxiety reverberated around the show which, in typical Leckey style, spotlights the magic in psychogeography and the poetry to be found within every subcultural niche. spittle is still attempting to grasp the meaning of one elusive artwork title: To the Old World (Thank You for the Use of your Body). Maybe he’ll reveal all in today’s NTS radio show?
Hot Links
☠️ “I couldn’t detect death… it was invisible. It was elusive. That intrigued me” - Benoît Loiseau profiles elusive artist Sophie Calle for The Guardian. They delve into her radical and purposefully uncouth work that features ‘fortune-tellers, strippers, lovers, heartbreakers, sleepers, and and blind people discussing their vision of beauty.’ spittle was intrigued to learn about her stuffed animal collection, including a wolf named after her gallerist Emmanuel Perrotin!
🥄 A spoonful of dread – Dive into spittle fave Joanna Fuertes’ substack. Her most recent ‘sletter is on main character syndrome - a subject close to our heart. She speaks about her experience administering vaccines on behalf of the government, a ‘hallucinatory’ and ‘mad’ project, given the scale and sensitive nature of the job, that required ‘plumbing adrenalin reserves only children's TV presenters maintain past their twenties.’
🍔 “A pair of slippers advertising this fairly heinous global food chain and quite a shit rapper” - Dr Kasia Tee and Dan Hancox’s podcast Cursed Objects explores unusual objects with a complex history. This episode delves into the far-reaching world of brand collaborations, from Travis Scott x McDonalds to Peppa Pig x Colgate, the pair look at the history of celebrity, the brandification of individuals and just how insidious that little ‘x’ might be.
💌 “I pored over the e-mails from Phony Chris, castigating myself” - The Anna Delvey of publishing, who had been scamming hopeful authors out of their manuscripts for years, was finally arrested earlier this year. Known as the Spine Collector (lol) the culprit emailed authors pretending to be their publishers, asking them to send over completed manuscripts urgently, all from a fake email account similar enough to the original that the victim wouldn’t notice. Peter C Baker recounts his tale, and probes what it exposed about his relationship to writing. Netflix series coming soon, we think…
👙 In more news of celebrity home decor gone-wrong - Drake’s $14.8 million “Yolo Estate” is on the market and some of the design choices are, um, exactly what you might expect after seeing his infamous Architectural Digest tour. A favourite of ours is the busty bronze sculpture by the pool, which really makes us wonder, who the hell is his advisor?
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So many incredible artists are participating in a solidarity print sale, raising funds for Artists at Risk, a non-profit organisation at the intersection of human rights and the arts. spittle is particularly enamoured by Rosemarie Trockel’s creepy contribution Moving Mona Lisa - which made us think, what happened to the popularity stretch limos? You heard it here first, a Y2K resurgence is surely imminent? Available here for £172.00
Parting Shot
Anna Delvey receives her first exhibition in NYC. Among the works is self-portrait of the art world’s most notorious embezzler in the high/low fashion combo of an Agent Provocateur top and prison-grade socks. It can’t only be spittle who notice the groovy-chick like vibe to Delvey’s scrawl. Maybe she had those bedsheets as a kid?
London’s beating ‘art <3 <3 <3 <3