Hasior’s Dreck

  This essay is a transcript of a talk given in Zakopane in late 2014. It will appear in a … More

Every Single Crash – Filip Berendt’s art

This text was written to accompany Filip Berendt’s show at L’étrangère, London in 2015. Working in Taiwan a few years … More

The Choreography of the Console: The Design of Electronic Environments and their Operators in the Cold War

This talk was given in Zurich at ETH in autumn 2014. In the late 1950 and 1960s a new kind … More

Interview with Herito magazine

In May Herito published an interview with me on socmodernist architecture in Eastern Europe – you can read it here.

Staging for the End of History: Avant-garde Visions at the Beginning and the End of Communism in Eastern Europe

In 1967 Stanislav Kolibal, the Czech artist, was commissioned to design the August-September cover of Výtvarné Uměni (Fine Arts) (fig … More

A Little Music: Sound Works by Wojciech Bruszewski

This essay will appear in 2015 in a book reviewing the work of artist Wojciech Bruszewski. In 1982 Wojciech Bruszewski … More

Empty Plots – Art and Environment in Latvia in the 1970s

This short essay was written for a publication accompanying the Visionary Structures exhibition at BOZAR, Brussels, opening in January 2015. … More

Echo Translation

In his book La voix au cinéma (The Voice in Cinema), Michel Chion coined the word ‘acousmêtre’ to describe a … More

Design Exhibitions Today – Answers and Questions

This piece appears in Disegno magazine, 7, 2014.   Design museums and galleries have long been in the business of … More

Review of Liverpool Biennial 2014

This review appeared in Frieze, Sept. 2014.   You can imagine the bemusement when the commission arrived. British artist Chris … More