The title of this exhibition, meaning ‘the presiding spirit of a place’, plays out in a collection that aims to reconfigure the familiar terrain of urban and residential life through a diverse range of approaches. Most striking in its execution of this aim is Rachel Lee’s ‘Good Mourning’ series, composed of ordinary clothing stretched across […]
For as long as big business has existed, what we wear at work has been governed by dress codes – some more explicit than others. Every day men and women across the country roll out of bed in the knowledge that the sleepy business of choosing what to wear has already been taken care of, […]
The University of Edinburgh has pledged its support for the Turing Trust, an organisation which provides access to computers in Africa, by donating money raised through a free search engine that diverts advertising revenues to charity. Easysearch is a type of technology developed by Yahoo, which combines the results from Bing and Yahoo search engines. Institutions […]
The Scottish government made a statement in defence of freedom of the press last week, amid a current rehashing of press regulations on the part of the UK Government. A published statement from Holyrood questioned the contents of Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013, a bill currently being re-explored by MPs in […]
Theatre, theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Venue 53, 15:35 until the 29th August. The Kitchen Sink, performed by Exeter University Theatre Company, is a far more sentimental play than you might expect from its opening line, “What d’ya think of the nipples?” The nipples in question belong to Dolly Parton – or rather the sketch of her […]
Comedy, Bedlam Theatre, Venue 49, 13:30 until the 16th August. Flossy and Boo’s Curiosity Shop is every bit the show it appears to be on the retro fairground inspired flyer: a riot of overblown whimsy with a healthy smattering of ‘fantabulous’ made up words. For the most part the act is very well executed, but as […]