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A brief rude awakening for my Group Therapy blog, on what is (I had not realised), its two year anniversary. I’ve not been positing here because I’m writing reams in other places. But the subject matter that Group Therapy is […]
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I’ve been engaging in some intensive debate with the irreverent Sid Volter on Lars Von Trier’s latest cinematic offering: Melancholia. Sid is of the opinion that the film offers up one of the best portraits of a character with chronic […]
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I rocked up to the private view of the ICA’s Freeze offering last night to check out what I would call a ‘mixed’ bag of work. Both the painterly and sculptural pieces on offer (by Jacob Kassay and Franz West) […]
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I was mooching about on the Guardian website a few days ago and I came across this announcement that Bobby Baker’s diaries Mental Illness and Me have just won the Mind Book of the Year award. I saw the contents […]
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I’ve had a few people ask me why the videos that I posted on the 20th June are currently offline. They were films about imaginary suicide jumps and were the product of my stay at The Vacuum Cleaner’s residency Ship […]
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I’m pretty sure that if doctors started prescribing New York based radio show This American Life to depressed patients, they’d see some good results. I’ve become an avid listener since I rocked up in the big smoke, mainly because the […]
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I’ve finally arrived in London after about three years of trying to move here! Isn’t that wonderful? I’m starting my MRes at The London Consortium in October, which means that I have about seven weeks to find my feet in […]
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I’m fascinated and somewhat infuriated by this article in the Guardian. An author who calls himself an ‘academic’ writing under a pseudonym (irritating in itself) has railed against internet dating, arguing that it is turning falling in love into a […]
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Apparently Google is now ‘a replacement for the ancient human faculty of memory,’ according to an article I have just spied in the Guardian. I love this kind of speculation that technology changes the shape and connections in the human […]
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Yesterday I struggled to get any work done as I tuned in to a live stream project called Purge by performance artist Brian Lobel I’ve always found artists live stream projects to be particularly compelling, there is something about seeing […]
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I’m not sure if its totally reader friendly to be blogging so frequently about suicide. Again I would justify it by saying that these bright and sunny summer months are almost peak suicide season, so the Wikipedia statistics tell me. […]
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Last night I woke up in a sweat at some ridiculous hour, after having a nightmare about being trapped in the department store TJ Hughes. Of course I went straight to twitter to fill the void of fragile, sleepless loneliness […]