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Does subcultural activity still exist and if so how and where? It’s a question that has been concerning cultural theorists for some time and in a world where business minds are savvy to the kudos artistic edginess can bring them, anything countercultural rarely stays so for long. The punk years…
Carnaby Street has become slightly tourist ridden of late, but ask your parents and they’ll tell you it used to be the place to be seen and to see the hottest music stars. It’s where the NME offices began, holds the first venue to play a SKA act in the…
Working in a call centre can leave a plethora of scars. Nev’s Swansea call centre on the BBC may look like a chipper place but it barely hints at every other person’s experience of the cold calling life. Artist Emma Hart draws on her first hand experience of call centre…
Over recent years the culinary arts have hogged the headlines like never before. The development of experimental dining has seen hungry customers have their food hung from string, served up in complete darkness or arrive in an endless array of unusual forms – snail porridge, sushi dessert, olive oil springs…
As much as we love to traipse around the capital, summertime usually throws up a few opportunities to venture further afield – so we didn’t hesitate to accept an invite last week to visit Bristol – one of the UK’s most creative cities, less than two hours away from London,…
Think of the world one hundred years from now. Imagine now that an immense storm has wiped out all of our treasured technology, our infrastructure of information and knowledge is gone, and humankind is living in a dark age. This is the dystopian future explored in Memory Palace, an immersive…