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    Since winning the Best Emerging Talent category at the 2010 Doug Wright Awards for his Lose #1, Michael DeForge‘s work has been through some startling transformations. His latest, Sticks Angelica, Folk Hero, shows him moving into another gear, away from the acidic clashing colours and grotesque humour of his recent Ant Comic and towards a more muted and bucolic approach. It’s one that hints at topicality, while retaining a breezy humour -if not occasionally containing traces of DeForge’s trademark cruelty.
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    The Deepest Darkest journeys into Welsh born artist Robin Mason’s autobiographical past in a series of spectacularly surreal works set against Block 336 Gallery’s stark Brutalist backdrop.
    Within the basement space Mason’s story begins to unfold against white walls and cold concrete floors. Soaked in the strip light’s harsh glare a disco ball’s reflection meditatively spins a showbiz sparkle over the amusement arcades of yesteryear. Each is outdated, yet their resonance is accentuated against the backdrop.
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    Nestling themselves in a defiantly naïve internet aesthetic, Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have been working with each other for years and it shows. Sharing an easy manner and dead pan sense of humour, the net artists, researchers and editors of Digital Folklore have had a wealth of experience to draw from when elaborating on their work keeping the home pages of now defunct free web-hosting service, GeoCities, in circulation. For their One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age exhibition at the Photographer’s Gallery, it’s not enough to collate and archive the 1,000+ gigabytes of user culture discarded when social media networks like Facebook and Twitter…

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    I am not a man!/ I am not a woman!/ I am both/ I am neither/ If you don’t like it/ take a breather! So announces Miguel Gutierrez between work outs during his DEEP Aerobics set.  An acronym for Death Electric Emo Protest Aerobics, there’s no doubting the intention of Gutierrez’s celebration of the non-essentialist form and, by extension, the entire oeuvre of The Knife. Performing at London’s Roundhouse in support of the release of their explicitly Third Wave, post-structural opus to feminism gone AWOL, Shaking the Habitual, the Swedish duo give added meaning to the oft-quoted maxim of Gender Trouble author Judith Butler’s,…

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    Chiptune – the sound of 1980s and 1990s video games – was one of the cases in which a technology destined to die naturally refused to disappear, finding its new use instead. Like recent revival of cassette culture, DIY and GIF-based net art, 8-bit music embraces outdated technology and media in order to manoeuvre new ideas out of it, once its time has expired.
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