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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies internationally in the US, Brazil and at the V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B (Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral research in Creative Writing.

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On Water

Essay

Issue No. 29

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Essay

Issue No. 29

& we say to her what have you done with our kin that you swallowed? & she says that was ages ago, you’ve drunk...

Interview

Issue No. 26

Interview with Saidiya Hartman

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Interview

Issue No. 26

The first time I encountered Saidiya Hartman, she was a voice in salt., an award-winning play by artist and...

ES9 is the latest body of work by Oliver Griffin in his archival series The Evaluation of Space Taken between the summers of 2010 and 2011 on the University of Plymouth campus, six groups of black and white photographs survey the scene with typological exactitude: lab coats, gas bottles, pot plants, architecture   As contact sheets of negatives ranging from standard 35mm film through to huge 10″ x 8″ negatives, the prints are saturated with resolution The manual labour employed by Oliver Griffin to create these prints, often using clumsy, large format cameras, the emphasis on heavy paper, the traces of rust from the pegs holding the print while drying, and their display as collections behind glass celebrate the physicality of the work They are objects as much as images   In this sense, the photographs in this series sit comfortably alongside Oliver Griffin’s previous works, which include a framed collection of used lottery scratch cards (The Evaluation of Space: Part 5b), watercolours of flowers (5c), an installation mimicking a car park (6b), and an outboard motor (8d) Seen as a Gesamtkunstwerk in its early stages The Evaluation of Space includes installations, photographs, painting and sculpture   The prevailing aesthetic of The Evaluation of Space is best expressed by a term coined by the artist: Borism It evolved from observing the short attention span of today’s culture, its increasing hyperactivity, shouty imagery and the pandemic boredom that sets in split-seconds after we engage with anything Borism addresses this phenomenon by producing works that are instantly boring Only in retrospect, through recollection or through revisiting the works, do they become interesting: a row of houses made from cardboard, the architecture of a car park, the design of an outboard motor or the flora and fauna of a campus, all have aesthetic qualities that require time and calm in the audience to absorb The alternative titles of each group give us a hint of their borist nature eg: Part 5b: ‘National lottery scratch cards’ Or: “The nihilism and waste of post-modern gambling produces such beautiful pieces of paper”   Griffin celebrates the humanity of failure On a purely technical level these blunt, slow, physical, black and white works (at times out of focus) fall short

Contributor

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Contributor

October 2018

VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet, writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and...

Nafissa Thompson-Spires’s ‘Heads of the Colored People’

Book Review

October 2018

Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Book Review

October 2018

Somewhere on the internet is a two-hour video of a lecture by the late writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, author of the short story...

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Art

March 2011

Trafalgar Square Street Protests

Cosmo Hildyard

Joseph de Lacey

Art

March 2011

The following photographs were taken during the third day of student protests in London on 1 December 2010, a...

feature

August 2017

What Makes A Gallery Programme?

Pac Pobric

feature

August 2017

Of his art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Pablo Picasso once wondered, ‘What would have become of us if Kahnweiler hadn’t...

poetry

September 2011

Sleepwalking through the Mekong

Michael Earl Craig

poetry

September 2011

I have my hands out in front of me. I’m lightly patting down everything I come across. I somehow...

 

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