In a dim corner of my room, for longer than my fancy thinks,A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me … More
Category: Eastern Europe
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
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
Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture without Borders, 1960s to 1980s
This exhibition was mounted at the Estonian Museum of Architecture, in spring 2023. Curated by Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets, … More
