Edinburgh International Festival: Antigone Interrupted Review
Antigone Interrupted presented by Scottish Dance Theatre and ideated by Joan Clevillé reconfigures the homonymous 5th c BC Greek tragedy by Sophocles to question the role of civil disobedience in…
Review: Through the Female Gaze – women and work in Italy since the 1950s
According to Laura Mulvey, the world is perceived through a male gaze: a gaze that frames femme presenting individuals and women as sexual objects independently from the gender of the…
Cave dwellers, find your own study space
This article was originally published in print on the 23rd March As a Mediterranean human being expatriated in a land of long, dark winters, you can understand the joy I…
Innovations Contemporary Dance Platform – Review
Innovations Contemporary Dance Platforms appeared at The Studio on October 15th with four emerging productions of contemporary dance practice that explored a variety of themes, among them: blindness, mental health,…
Navel Gazing at the Collective Gallery
When visiting Kirsty Hendry’s Navel Gazing, I applied my usual process when experiencing art – I did not read the two introductory texts accompanying the piece before attending the screening.…
Not Going Back to Normal: A Disabled Artists’ Manifesto by Collective
‘Not Going Back to Normal’ is a collective art manifesto for and by disabled artists, curated by Sasha Saben Callaghan and Harry Josephine Giles. The project sparked from a commission…
Bright Shadows: Scottish Art in the 1920s
Coming back with their first exhibition after lockdown, the City Art Centre offers a retrospective on the Scottish art scene in the 1920s. The exhibition mostly includes artworks part of…
LINK Party, Fruitmarket Gallery
After two weeks of events and creativity, on February 24 The Fruitmarket Gallery hosted a closing party to celebrate and reflect on togetherness through an array of entertaining activities. Besides…