‘Don’t you see,’ implores Sergeant Neil Howie as he is led to the sacrificial bonfire in The Wicker Man (dir. Robin Hardy, 1973), ‘that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?’. In this classic folk horror film, the modern worldview clashes violently with fertility rituals, human sacrifice, and ancient superstitions. Eerie Pageantry […]
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Artists: John Akomfrah (UK), Ed Atkins (UK), Marco Brambilla (Italy/US), Walead Beshty (US), Lauren Brincat (Australia), Thomas Demand (Germany), Simon Denny (New Zealand), Brian Eno (UK), Charles and Ray Eames (US), Andreas Gursky (Germany), Naeem Mohaiemen (Bangladesh/US), Adrian Paci (Albania), Alex Prager (US), Taryn Simon (US), and What We Found After You Left: A Project by […]
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Gate 1 The empty airport is one of the most haunting and defining images of our time. As the coronavirus response enforced travel bans and closed borders, images of deserted airports have come to hold a set of often wildly contradictory ideas: the fragility of human existence, the failure or success of government responses to […]
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AARON LISTER 