La Piccioletta Barca | Visual Arts

I became more and more obsessed with Mullae Dong, returning again and again to take more and more photos.

2. Another World

In this bustling city within a city which, I discovered, covered an absolutely vast area, what really struck me was...

1. Off to Mullae Dong

The description of an art village proved to be something of an exaggeration. What I did find, however, was...

Seoul Metal - Introduction

I first discovered the district of Mullae Dong, rather bizarrely, thanks to Donald Trump.

December 2021

Ollie Cowley

Like an angel's epiphany, light bears little exposition. It is the language of sense and sight - the language of light.

November 2021

Elias Kafouros

Drawing from such disparate and wide-ranging points of reference as film, online culture, renaissance art...

After

Mulan Fu

When people watch this I want them to see what their real reaction would be.

During

Mulan Fu

I’m taking inspiration from the digital truth serum concept.

April 2021

VOID

VOID’s interest is placed on the interrelation between embodiment and space.

March 2021

Julia Romano

I made the series Cultural Landscapes with scanned or downloaded images from European paintings of landscapes...

July 2021

Lucrecia Gimenez

Aconquija means "snow formed in the heights, by the moon".

May 2021

Eleana Konstantellos

In 1998 my maternal grandmother, Esther, suffered a serious accident in a swimming pool when she slipped and hit...

June 2021

Yzza Slaoui

Using a mix of Medium format film and digital Bazaruto Boys is an intimate portrayal that captures the magical...

September 2021

David Sowerby

Taking material from my everyday encounters, I make works that begin and end with the body.

October 2021

Sneha Alexander

A selection of prints showcasing work created during, and inspired by, the pandemic.

Flesh and Bones

Cosmonuts

A funk rendition of Euripides' "The Bacchae".

Atitlán

Zachary Warnke

Black and white images of a dying lake, once blue, Huxley called it “too good to be true”.

Studies in Charcoal Abstraction

Steven Tutino

A series of charcoal abstractions based on the stimulus.

Hypnos

Alia Grypari

A reflection on childhood stories and their force, paired with original illustrations and hand-woven clothes.

The Decrepit Huts of the Athenian Riviera

Magdalini Sgouridi

An exploration of the decrepit huts lining the Athenian Riviera, and the beauty that can be found amidst their remains.

The Walls and the City

With no consideration, no pity, no shame / they've built around me enormous, towering walls.

Collages of a Home

Crystal Hartman

At the start of the pandemic, I fell into a small studio and began sorting papers, piles of stories, and materials.

Ripped Posters as a Means to Understanding Cities

I have always been attracted to the ripped posters that are to be found, left to rot in various cities around the world.

The Garden of Love

The Dreamers

An indie rock piece from the Greek band 'The Dreamers,' based on the poem 'The Garden of Love' by William Blake.

Index

Grove Koger

The originals of these two pages (numbered 192 and 193 on the recto and verso of a single sheet of ordinary paper)...

Acrostics for an Annus Horribilis

Gavin Boyter

An acrostic based on the cheeses of the Titanic’s final menu.

Fuzzy Logic

These photographs all come from an exhibition held in Brussels, entitled “Clarity in the Mist”.

Timelapse

Theoni Androulidaki

Mixed Media 12 pieces of 29.7 x 42.0 cm

Abstract Black and White

Steven Tutino

My latest development in my growth as an artist has been experimenting with the black and white concept.

Faith Reason

Tony Murray

My original intent for creating this piece is to inspire the viewer to think.

Studies in Abstraction

Steven Tutino

Geometric abstraction, creating order out of chaos, meaning out of seamless disorder and uncertainty.

Cadiz Series

Lorri Frisbee

Life is ephemeral. Nothing lasts, not youth, not travel, not the things you buy.

Hope

Konstantis Alexopoulos and Vasiliki Poula

I had just left the supermarket behind me, and I was walking back home with the week’s groceries.

Back To Square One

Tony Murray

This work is a representational abstraction of a thought process.

My art is driven by my love for the world and my curiosity concerning its complexities and intricate structures.

Confession (that you'll never know)

Lauren Hussey

Wanderers

Respect the Mountain

All those magical places, awaiting to be seen. All those breathtaking moments, awaiting to be lived.

The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Konstantis Alexopoulos discusses the different 'faces' of routine with reference to his photography.

City Symmetry

Jeanne Wilkinson

The award winning “City Symmetry Series" continues my exploration of abstract forms in everyday life.

The Look

Kids playing outside, at Ueno Onshi Park, during a sunny day, in Tokyo. July 2019.

The Umbrella Summer

Tram Nguyen and Vasiliki Poula

Four photographs and the stories behind them. Taken during a trip to Japan.

Jerusalem

Jonathan Neo

I watched dusk over the Western Wall as the soundscape melted into the groans of praying...

Ain't no funk like funk before your exams

John Eleftheriadis

A Discussion Between Two Pianos

Transformations – An experimentation of dissolving the sound and image of waves into lines

Theoni Androulidaki

A Clockwork Orange Inspired Improv

George Moyssiadis

You float like a feather in a beautiful world

George Moyssiadis

This is a story of mountains and men

Jonathan Neo

The blossoms of the apricot blow from east to west

The life & times of the (readymade, not just any) 'Fountain'

That of pain

Theoni Androulidaki

That of pain - a depiction of a woman with missing parts. Oil on canvas. 80 x 100 cm.

Untangling the marginal chords

Writing searches for a homeland. Behind a poem or a story is a landscape, or several if there is a journey. The setting may be in a wild, remote place. Or it may be in a city.. Or it may be an imagined place, like Xanadu.

Meditations From A Restless Night

Stephen R. Minnich

For a restless soul, the night is an endless possibility. A stage upon which experience and imagination collide. How different would be the day if just one thing only changed? If everything changed but only just? Countless are the variations that one might imagine. These poems welcome what arrives when rest is unwelcome and restlessness embraced; when one learns, perhaps, to stand on stage between the infinite collisions, letting each one try itself out.

Ambivalence

Micaela Brinsley

Somewhere in between knowing, ambivalence is a feeling that never quite acts like one. It’s more of a filter, that blurs reality until the moment it snaps, cracks under its own ephemerality. Here you’ll find a drive between prose and poetry, effort and surrender, loss and its clarity.

Out of the Woods

Civilisation and Nature often have a difficult relationship. Writing about Nature seeks harmony between town and country.

Follies

Ian Fisher

These three linked short stories anecdote the cosmopolitan fictional Fielder family: Ira, wife Nessa, and son Rónán, from the mid-eighties—which Rónán likes to call B.R.—to summer 2021.

Seoul Metal

'Seoul Metal' explores the Mullae Dong district with a series of ten photographs. Visit this neighbourhood in Seoul, with an eclectic mix of metal workshops, artists’ studios, bars and restaurants. Join this loud, boisterous and very industrial trip with Michael Howarth.

All That Glitters is Not Gold

Yvonne Jowell

"All that glitters is not gold” is a three-piece story that examines a woman’s abortion from three overlapping angles. "The danger of the child in your head", “Mozart assassinated” and “Playing your cards right” each explore the pains of an abortion, crumbling relationships and the pursuit of hope.

L'Escargot

Geoffrey Heptonstall returns in the Thread with a collection of essays inspired by Henri Matisse’s L’Escargot. Go down into the labyrinth. You will find a discussion about art, darkness, tragedy and memory with Francois Gilot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Stéphane Mallarmé, Jean Cocteau, Horace and Aristotle amongst many other guests.

Come Here, Chodż Tutaj (or, A Tribute to Mother Courage)

Joe Wagner

Come Here, Chodż Tutaj (or, A Tribute to Mother Courage) is a three-part essay that revolves around the author’s experience in Warsaw in 1980 and 1981 as a twelve-year-old boy, as well as the life of Anna Walentynowicz, the Polish activist who inspired Solidarity. It explores notions of memory, language, history, and labor unions with several literary references along the way.

Way Out in the Old West

Sam Price

Stories of the American West have largely been relegated to the past. Reading about gratuitous, racially-charged violence in a world brimming with gratuitous, racially-charged violence -- most readers are wise to pass. Yet, something gleams in those far-off hills, gems like True Grit, Warlock, and Lonesome Dove. These genre classics remind modern readers the stories we construct about our own pasts are, like the legends of old, more mythology than history.

Digital Truth Serum

Mulan Fu

How does the virtual world control how we perceive ourselves and can animation help us identify how we unknowingly subject ourselves to its terms? Constructed in relation with artist Mulan Fu's visual language of abstraction, this is a record of the development of a work of animation from conception to production. A simulation.

700th Anniversary of the Death of Dante

Antonio Melloni

Seven hundred years ago, Dante Alighieri died in Ravena. Broadly read and criticized, his Comedy has been – and still is – a sea in which many have ventured to find poetry, philosophy, history and religion. Some, moved by the Italian, attempted their own creations inspired by such waters. Here, two essays and a poem intend to be, if nothing else, a compass for an eventual reader to find his way towards Dante´s work.

Animal v. Human

Luke Davies

Two miniature collections of short stories and a short essay on the theme of animals and humans, written by a human.

Dream Journey

Dream Journey is an account of the images that a mind encounters on first waking. It begins with a city walk at night. Before nightfall, there is a strange feeling that the world is neither light nor dark. The noise of the day gives way not to silence, but to the sounds of the night. In the early morning at first light it may seem that the stones come alive. They may appear to move or to speak. Of course it is only the mist of a grey dawn.

Dostoevsky is 200

Jakob Brønnum

The Russian novelist, Fyodor Dostoevsky, turns 200 on November 11th. "Dostoevsky is 200” is a quartet of short essays that explores the writer’s understanding of the problems of Russian society and his characterization of human nature. His vision of the human person is so strong and pure that there is much to be learned from reading him.

Through the Lens

Nacho Oliden

Through the Lens offers a reflection on photography, memory and identity through essays and poetry. You can expect to encounter Bioy Casares, Manoel de Oliveira, Joaquín Sorolla, Nacho’s friend Simón, as well as others along the way.

In Constant Motion

This collection of essays investigates the poetic form, the life of poets, familiar streets and places of learning. A journey within the mind, with language and within the world at a moment of transformation. You can expect to meet T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sally Purcell, John Wain, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop and Amanda Gorman along the way...

On History

Dylan Howarth

‘On History’ comprises three critical reflections on the depiction of historical events in cinema, on the role of the historian in the study of history, and on the historical depiction of madness in American literature. Through this collection of essays, join a voyage through history, from the late Stalin and Khrushchev eras, to ‘Hitler’s War,’ and 19th and 20th century America.

Dreamland

Michael Shapland

December 2030. Tom is a young man intent on saving his older brother, who resides in ‘Dreamland’. Dreamland is a drug house for the rich, hidden underneath Soho Square. No man has ever left Dreamland.

The Muses of October

Michael A. Dann

This collection of essays offers a reflection on the decay of empires. From Ancient Greece, to the Roman Empire, to the Aztecs, the story of the fall of ancient civilisations in 'The Muses of October’ provides some insight into contemporary political developments.

Lockdown Meanderings

Eleonora Narbone

'Lockdown Meanderings' offers a critical reflection on some of the effects of the pandemic. This collection of essays and short stories explores the passing of time, the subtle beauty of routines, the importance of storytelling, and the immense joy of seeing people again after lockdown. From Boccacio’s Decameron, to running in Ancona, to the beauty of moka coffee, enjoy a virtual trip to the heart of Italy.

Singing Cicadas

Chariklia Martalas

According to Socrates in the Phaedrus, when the Muses were born, song was birthed with them. Some people became so intoxicated with singing that they forgot to eat and drink and so they died. These humans became the Singing Cicadas who sang until they died and then reported to the Muses which humans have honoured them. Chariklia openly admits that she wants the Cicadas to report to the Muses that she has honoured them, so she can give these pieces of writing as offerings.

The First Words

"When the first words were written it became possible…" This trilogy explores the role of writers and literature, as well as the art of writing; these notebooks filled with possibilities, improbabilities and nonsense. A true manifesto that explains why it matters very much how you say what you say, why nobody can tell you how to write and why the true self is the imaged self.

A Chapter in the Book of Existence

Colby Torbett

This collection of essays offers a reflection of life’s place in space and time through the physical environment of three different settings: Space, the arctic, and the jungle. A Chapter in the Book of Existence seek to express the beautiful, finite nature of our planet as it exists in the universe through the lenses of science, human nature, and exploration.

Celebrating Beethoven

Jakob Brønnum

Beethoven was born 250 years ago in December. We do not know his exact birthday, but records show that he was baptized in Bonn on the 17th. 2020 should be a celebration of his intense artistic and unswervingly humanistic musical legacy. “Celebrating Beethoven” looks at four large and well-known works, attempting to identify some ways Beethoven widens his time and his métier into matters relevant to philosophy, romantic spirituality, abstract art and the dawning of modern, personal identity.

On Voices

Myko Philip

Join the odyssey through the voices that one hears while deciphering Eliot’s The Waste Land. Are you hearing the voices? What happens when you don’t quite hear the voices that Eliot wants you to hear? What happens when you do begin to hear the voices? What happens when you mistakenly hear the other voices?

Some Notes from Chile

Joe Wagner

A trip to Chile, exploring its history and present, from Pinochet and the Chicago Boys to O-18 and Covid-19. Notes on political unrest, streets coming to life and creating a new social pact. Interventions by Neruda and references to Bolaño may shine light on the rebellion, or simply provide solace.

In Search of Lost Words

Zoe Fairtlough

A reflection on family legacies and the search for purpose, threaded through with the origins of Italian gelato and the etymology of related words.

On Poetic Creation

Nacho Oliden

Embarking on a journey into the past – from ancient Greece, across the Seine and the Sistine Chapel, to Hollywood and America – this is an exploration of the intricacies of the poetic process, the interaction of poetry with history and philosophy and the uniqueness of different art forms.

On Loss and Solitude

Pamela Mandell

Ruminations on the natural cycles of life and death inspired by the bildungsroman of a life companion. The Noki Trilogy, named after the author’s canine companion, builds on casual conversations in the form of three short stories, stimulating all five senses, and exploring the depth and clarity of the perception of loss.

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