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Tom Overton

Tom Overton is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the archives of the Barbican and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He edited Portraits: John Berger on Artists and Landscapes: John Berger on Art (Verso, 2015 and 2016)and is writing Berger’s biography, and a book on archives and migration (Allen Lane). He tweets at @tw_overton and collects his articles at overton.tw.



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Oberhausen Film Festival

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June 2017

Tom Overton

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June 2017

Such film festivals – those extraordinary clusters of images, transports of light, of virtual worlds scattered across a real geography – pale in scale...
Plastic Words

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March 2015

Tom Overton

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March 2015

Plastic Words was a six-week series of thirteen events which described itself as ‘mining the contested space between contemporary literature and art’. It did...

READ NEXT

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October 2014

Blood Out of a Zombie

Laurence A. Rickels

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October 2014

The German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger has on three different occasions put the camera aside and directed for the theatre, each...

poetry

January 2012

Mount Avila

W. N. Herbert

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January 2012

‘el techo de la ballena’   Time to be climbing out of time as the wild city rates it,...

Art

May 2011

Twelve Installations

Lawrence Lek

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May 2011

These installations express the transience of our sensory world, the impermanence of form, and the artificiality of our environment....

 

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