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  • Peilin Shi: critical review

    Peilin Shi: critical review

    Opening our eyes to the world of storytelling, Peilin Shi invited us along to two events demonstrating her ability to tell narratives across multiple disciplines. Her stories encapsulate her life in the present as well as in the ancestral, tracing her Hakka lineage through spoken word, song and sound. Starting with her performance at the Read more

  • [synonym] session X Maria Soroniati

    [synonym] session X Maria Soroniati

    On Saturday 5 July, we hit the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, to facilitate the last of the Summer Programme [synonym] sessions with guest host artist — Maria Soroniati. Our writing cohort were immersed in Ciara Phillips’ Undoing It as they discussed the themes of life and death, investigating the in between highlighting its equal Read more

  • Inside the Modern Temple: Critical Review

    Inside the Modern Temple: Critical Review

    Inside the Modern Temple investigated the vast language of humans concerning ideologies and fairytales told and retold throughout time. The works range from different styles and mediums: digital print to installation to oil painting to photographs (one of the two works was photographic documentation of a performance). As Edinburgh-based artist Zefeng Li spoke about each Read more

  • [synonym] session x SONIC INTERVENTIONS

    [synonym] session x SONIC INTERVENTIONS

    As always, we invited peers who were intrigued by art and the context that it can pose. In this session, we focused on the aspect of sound and its place in geography, war, and art. Engaging with our memory of space and our connection with sound physiologically. In this session, we set off to the Read more

  • Time Based: SONIC INTERVENTIONS : Review

    Time Based: SONIC INTERVENTIONS : Review

    Time Based: SONIC INTERVENTIONS, an experimental festival to be engaged with using not only the eyes but our ears. From 11 to 15  June 2025, two curatorial platforms Time Based (Olha Bekenshtein) and Arts & Parts (Martel Ollerenshaw) invited us to observe and absorb the phenomenon that is sound. By attending all programmes within the Read more

  • [synonym] session x Alasdair Watson: Third Space

    [synonym] session x Alasdair Watson: Third Space

    What is a Third Space? When and how do you breach this space? How temporal; ethereal; lucid; real; nostalgic is this space? On May 17th we were presented to this site of thought and contemplation. Our guest host Alasdair Watson took the writing enthusiasts and ourselves on a tour of spaces and places that relate Read more