Enter disorientating and darkly humorous worlds created by multimedia artist (she prefers ‘entertainer‘) LuYang. Converging modern anime, arcade and sci-fi technology, with aspects of neuroscience and motifs from Buddhist philosophy, this absurdist fantasy delights in the mysteries and mechanics of…
A tiled temple that traverses across its creators many lost lives, loves and labours; the House Of Dreams in East Dulwich is a living illumination, birthed and bled from a pair of passionate hearts and minds. Journey’s Into…
Dada: ‘an artistic and literary movement formed in response to the disasters of World War I and to an emerging modern media and machine culture. Dada artists sought to expose accepted and often repressive conventions of order and logic,…
Altered-State Of Consciousness: ‘a change in one’s normal mental state as a result of trauma, accident, or induced through meditation, substances or some foods. The 5 categories of cause include pharmacological, psychological, physical + psychological, pathological and spontaneous – resulting…
Phoebe Tickell trained as a Natural Scientist: exploring the world through a lens that detects patterns, interconnection, and seeks truth. Guided by the creativity required to appreciate complexity, she has gone on to formulate meta-curricula based on ‘magical’ or…
The modern conception of time has undergone its own evolution – being neither an organic or apolitical force. It reflects a well-defined ideology that draws its origins from the pursuit of a technological superiority and undisputed efficiency, fostered by…
While the eyes are a window to the soul, art is a prism of light refracting and reflecting our worlds back upon us: illuminating the intangible, illogical, emotional, surreal depths of our conscious and unconscious spheres. As the recurrence…
A fermented mood enhancer rich in antioxidants and fortified with protein, the Peruvian Pisco Sour is a cocktail of contradictions that might pass off as an undercover health tonic. Are some of our popular social lubricants just as bad…
An exploration through the animal kingdom towards the true north of man’s magnetic field. Gaia’s Geomagnetic GPS Many animals that have an uncanny ability to find their way back to the same feeding grounds every year have a…
Pataphysics; Noun: ‘A philosophy dealing with an imaginary realm in addition to metaphysics; a science invented by French writer of the Absurd Alfred Jarry, intended to be a parody of science (1873–1907). Difficult to be defined or pinned down, it…
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (Nellie Bly / Brown) 1864 – 1922 For context, the late 19th and early 20th century were a time when: the safety pin and gas mask had just found a market, Darwin had beaten Alfred Russel…
