Iain Sinclair's Blog, page 27
August 26, 2014
The 70×70 book went to print today
August 9, 2014
ABANDONED GOODS – narrated by Iain Sinclair
Abandoned Goods is a short essay film about the extraordinary collection of artworks created by patients detained in Netherne psychiatric hospital between 1946 and 1981. The artworks were created in a pioneering art studio in the hospital run by the artist Edward Adamson. Today around 5,500 pieces survive, assembled together [...]
August 2, 2014
A poem dedicated to Iain
HARK new issue contains James Bruce May’s poem dedicated to Iain: “Oh Herons’ Wings”.
July 30, 2014
Iain on This is Hell! – May 2014
Here is the long interview to Iain Sinclair by Chuck Mertz on This is Hell! Radio from May 2014.
Now edited and partially transcribed by Ed Sutton on Antidote, this is the full version.
From This is Hell! website:
Jack Kerouac might have laid down the road, but the path America’s original freaks took – [...]
On the Road in Late Capitalism: Places, Journeys, and the Beats’ Legacy
Ed Sutton on the Antidote blog has published a partial transcription of the Chuck Mertz interview on This is Hell!
Our ‘edition’ narrows the scope of the discussion, which centered on a latter-day exploration of the Beat Generation and their haunts, to just haunts. That is, we found the portions of Chuck and Iain’s [...]
July 20, 2014
thank you from the web people
We (the website and facebook and twitter duo) are not directly involved with By Our Selves. Nonetheless we’d like to thank all those that have pledged for Iain and Andrew’s project.
July 14, 2014
American Interior: Gruff Rhys and Iain Sinclair
“I am delighted to say that Iain Sinclair is up for interviewing Gruff on 15th July, nice timing as his American odyssey, American Smoke is out in paperback mere weeks before.”
Organizer: LRB.
HIS STORY: A NIGHT OF WORDS AND IMAGES WITH DAVE MCKEAN AND IAIN SINCLAIR
A benefit event for the Horse Hospital Fundraising Campaign
Dave McKean is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans comics, illustration, animation, film-directing, installation, music and performance. He is a long-standing collaborator of author Neil Gaiman on cult works such as Sandman, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Coraline, and has designed [...]
July 12, 2014
A film made for BBC’s Newsnight about ‘Edge of the Orison’
Somebody just sent me a link to a film made for BBC’s Newsnight about ‘Edge of the Orison’. We were covering the same ground as the recent ‘By Our Selves’ walk. But with a more strident political agenda.
Iain At 05:03 a very interesting section of the video, with Iain talking of an anonymous modern building [...]July 10, 2014
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