National Folklore Survey (#NFS) – Dr David Clarke on the exciting new project that provide insights into beliefs, customs and traditions in contemporary England

In Charlie Cooper’s new series Myth Country (streaming on BBC I-player) the actor and writer reveals his passion for folklore and how the peculiar rituals and traditions of this country ‘bring people together’. Far from being outdated and trivial folklore is, he says, ‘very much alive and thriving on social media’. The National Folklore Survey funded by UKRI Arts & […]

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Clash Magazine Live Report: No Bounds Festival 2024

No Bounds Festival 2024 has received a review in Clash magazine with comments from Amy Carter Gordon, curator, producer and public art specialist. Amy is a co-curator at No Bounds Festival and has twenty-five years of experience in curating exhibitions, installations, dialogues and collaborations for leading UK research-based festivals.   Amy says: “There’s such a strong community within subcultures, I didn’t […]

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Susannah Gent’s ‘Psychotel 2’ at Wollaton Street Studios, Nottingham, 03 – 27 June 2024

Psychotel 2 is a cinematic installation project exploring the uncanny. The exhibition employs elements from cinema’s supernatural horror genres; bizarre interpretations of psychoanalysis; and philosophical investigations into the structure of identity. Visitors are subjected to slow nuanced arrangements of objects, kaleidoscopic sequences of images, filmic topologies of thought, and lightly veiled filth; in order to release the uncanny’s power to […]

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