Unwavering Sensitivity and Valuing Confusion (ANNA CLEGG)

2023-09-29

Guest artist ANNA CLEGG joins curator and critic VANESSA MURRELL to discuss her multi-disciplinary art practice via 'My Loose Thread' by Denis Cooper. Published in 2002 by Canongate Books, this claustrophobic novel circulates around teenage Larry who is wrestling with the point of his own existence and explores teen depression, moral vacuity and the confusion of love. Please be warned that in following the content of Cooper's text, the programme contains references to violence and suicide. Anna and Vanessa's discussion also encompasses psychedelics, o...

Please be warned that in following the content of Cooper's text, the programme contains references to violence and suicide.

Anna and Vanessa's discussion also encompasses psychedelics, obsession, faux Nazis, feeling violated, animal stickers, unwavering sensitivity, stupid imagery, internal rhyming, Santa Claus, swimming through mud, looping back on oneself, eyes being gummed shut, the value of confusion, dark and disturbing worlds, begrudging awareness of the reader, not being able to fathom the logic of decision making, writing through an idea rather than creating a story, and the steampunk weaponisation of ice skates.

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Recorded at Cubitt Community Radio by Andi Armishah

Music GRIFFIN KNIPE

Production consultant LORI E ALAN

Logo JOANNA QUINN of BERYL PRODUCTIONS

ANNA CLEGG

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'Half Truths' curated by Vanessa Murrell til 30 November 2023 at Unit 2 Cassia Building 97-101 Hackney Road Shoreditch London E2 8ET