A piece I wrote a while back on one of the greatest groups of the 1980′s – Sigue Sigue Sputnik, here

“I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again… the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.” – J.G. Ballard

Dolls for Typhoid Fever, Black Death, Cholera and Flesh Eating diseases! more info here

James Howard

This is an unpublished piece/rant I wrote about the history of video art in Australia for the video void series at the CCP in Melbourne in  2010. It talks about the shift away from screen culture to the gallery as the default place to show video, you can read it here

Its not enough that one has to suffer through inane video art works at times, you also have to endure it with the most uncomfortable seating ever designed in the world. Now I am sure when curators selected the video art  for these kinds of shows they were sitting in a comfortable chair. At least in a theatrical screening the video art may be uncomfortable and difficult to sit through but  at least your arse is well cushioned.

A while back i wrote a review of Harnomy Korine’s Trash Humpers here

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please don’t call me doctor

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