Cecilia Morgan performs as afromerm at Rearrange, Displace, Replace: Sound and Performance Night this Thursday 28th at Avalon Café, SE14, as part of Minor Attractions’ Summer Sessions alongside Yuri Umemoto (with Eliott Bougant on violin and Ozgur Kaya on cello), Kenichi Iwasa, Miles Scharff, and snake_case. I arrive apologising to my interview with Cecilia Morgan, better known as sound artist afromerm, delayed by the trains that in London reliably fail the moment the tempera

I didn’t think I would be spending my Wednesday night extolling the virtues of 2022 roleplaying game Disco Elysium. And yet, on one of the first genuinely warm evenings of London summer, I am sat outside the Euston Tap with a pint, a cigarette, and - more importantly - Frankie Faccion, founding editor of Die Quieter Please, chatting about how much the game has influenced our respective practices. I catch up with her ahead of her appearance at Minor Attractions' Summer Session

On a sunny morning in March, over Zoom, Tamm Reynolds introduces me to the best drag name I have heard in years. Midgitte Bardot is Reynolds’s drag persona: a glamorous, furious creation at the centre of Shooting From Below , a new live performance work blending drag, cabaret, music and social history. This April, Reynolds brings the show to the Southbank Centre ’s Purcell Room, and Midgitte has a few things to say. Photography courtesy of Holly Revell The premise is sharp:

What can “home” mean in contemporary art once the domestic space stops being a stable site of comfort? Curated by Arina Baburskova , My Home Is… at Roha Gallery , Lyu Chirkova stages the familiar vocabulary of toys, furniture, and household surfaces as materially and psychologically unstable in an attempt to answer the question of what "home" really means. Installation view courtesy of Arina Baburskova There is a particular tension running through Lyu Chirkova 's My Home I

" Don’t believe the hype, here’s another side of the story, ” says artist and writer Philippa Found on Valentine's Day. Across London, her oversized confessions - “ half-way between shock and super-relatable ” - about love, regret and longing interrupt the holiday's usual romance narrative to remind passersbys that love is rarely neat. Photography courtesy of The Books It's Valentine's Day. I'm slightly hungover, having drunk a little too much red at a gallery dinner last ni

Mexico City Art Week has become an essential February pilgrimage for the international art world, and for London visitors it’s increasingly the week that sets the tempo for the year ahead. Feria Material , now entering its 12th edition, Vol. 12 of the art fair sits at the centre of that ecosystem: Latin American representation, a clear curatorial identity, and a programme that treats the city as part of the experience. “Material has changed venues several times over its 12-y

At the beginning of Frieze Week, Mall Galleries hosted the first joint solo show between artists Bushra Fakhoury and Mal Fostock . Fostock’s show, INCLUSION , included one hundred pieces from the past twenty years, varying in medium: line drawings, prints, paintings, photography and sculpture. Megan O’Neil speaks to him about how the show came together, the nature of influence, and his creative practice. MO: Your photography really reminded me of Brassaï. I wondered if he

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