Getting Lost with Andrej Klimowski

In a dim corner of my room, for longer than my fancy thinks,A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me … More

The Imagined East

This talk – presented at at summer school called ‘Our Many Easts’ at the Moderna galerija in Ljubljana -in Aug … More

Technological Folklore

This is a short essay on the work of Valdis Celms, a Latvian artist and designer that I have long … More

Sound-Colour-Space

A version of this essay is published in a book to accompany Ilona Keserü’s exhibition at Muzeum Susch (details here) … More

As It Is: Art and the Mass Media Image in Gierek’s Poland

This essay will appear in Art in Translation later this year. It is a version of a talk that I … More

New Art of the Times of the October Revolution, Warsaw 1967

This is a slightly longer version of an essay which will appear in a new anthology edited by Sven Spieker, … More

Atomic Stations and Artificial Environments – Art and Science in Soviet Russia in the 1960s

This is a draft of an essay which appears a shorter version in a book accompanying “L’Âge atomique” exhibition curated … More

Culture Bunkers

This is an extract of a longer preface that I have written for Michaela Janečková and Irena Lehkoživová’s new book, … More

The Aura of the Avant-garde

Agnieszka Pindera at the Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź is leading a research project into Échange entre artistes 1931–1982, Pologne-USA, a … More

Television Lies!

This is an extract of a longer essay commissioned by Karol Hordziej and Daniel Muzyczuk for a book to accompany … More