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The Weimar Republic was born out of Germany's defeat in World War I, and the failed Communist revolution that followed the armistice in November 1918, and collapsed with the election of the Nazi Party in 1933. This week, Juliet talks to Tom Wilkinson (author of 'Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People Who Made Them') about how the war and its aftermath changed German Expressionism, gave rise to Dada and the Neue Sachlichkeit movements, and brought about the most intense reaction against modernist culture.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Die Aktion - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_aktion.php

Arbeitsrat für Kunst - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbeitsrat_für_Kunst

Jean (Hans) Arp

Bauhaus

Der Blaue Reiter - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/der-blaue-reiter

Bertolt Brecht

ARNOLT BRONNEN, Vatermord (1922) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnolt_Bronnen

Die Brücke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Brücke

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene, 1920)

Otto Dix - https://www.ottodix.org/

ALFRED DÖBLIN, Berlin Alexanderplatz (1928) - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/01/17/the-genius-of-berlin/

Kasimir Edschmid, 'Concerning Poetic Expressionism' (1917)

Max Ernst

George Grosz - http://www.redflag.org.uk/frontline/nine/09grosz.html

WALTER HASENCLEVER, The Son (1912) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Son_(play)

GERHART HAUPTMANN, The Weavers (1899)

John Heartfield - https://www.johnheartfield.com/

Emmy Hennings - http://www.dada-companion.com/hennings/

Georg Heym - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/may/21/featuresreviews.guardianreview18

Hannah Höch - https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2014/01/new-woman-berlins-feminist-dadaist-pioneer-hannah-höch

Richard Huelsenbeck

Marcel Janco - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Janco

Ernst Jünger - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jünger

GEORG KAISER, From Morning to Midnight (1916), The Coral (1917), Gas I (1918), Gas II (1920) - https://www.newstatesman.com/juliet-jacques/2013/12/morning-midnight-fiercely-anti-naturalistic-epitome-expressionist-style

WASSILY KANDINSKY, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911) - https://www.wassilykandinsky.net/book-116.php

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Käthe Kollwitz - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Käthe_Kollwitz

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA, Murderer, Hope of Woman (1909) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murderer,_the_Hope_of_Women

SIEGFRIED KRACAUER, From Caligari to Hitler (1947) - https://monoskop.org/images/1/12/Kracauer_Siegfried_From_Caligari_to_Hitler_A_Psychological_History_of_the_German_Film.pdf

M (dir. Fritz Lang, 1931)

August Macke

Thomas Mann

Franz Marc

Neue Jugend - http://www.dada-companion.com/journals/per_neue-jugend.php

Friedrich Nietzsche - https://www.lrb.co.uk/v12/n16/jp-stern/impatience

Emil Nolde

Die Novembergruppe - https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/die-novembergruppe-the-november-group-1918-1934

Pandora's Box (dir. G. W. Pabst, 1928)

Christian Schad - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/christian-schad-2331

Kurt Schwitters

GEORG SIMMEL, The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903) - http://www.laits.utexas.edu/berlin/pdf/scholarship/Simmel_The%20Metropolis.pdf

Carl Sternheim - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sternheim

August Strindberg

Der Sturm - https://www.moma.org/s/ge/collection_ge/objbyppib/objbyppib_ppib-25_sov.html

Sophie Taeuber-Arp - https://frieze.com/tags/sophie-tauber-arp

ERNST TOLLER, Masse-Mensch (1920), Hoppla! We're Alive! (1927) - https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWtoller.htm

Ferdinand Tönnies

Kurt Tucholsky - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/fabulous-tragic-kurt-tucholsky/

TRISTAN TZARA, 'Dada Manifesto' (1918) - http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Tzara_Dada-Manifesto_1918.pdf

Richard Wagner

Max Weber

Frank Wedekind

A century since the Armistice, World War I looms larger than ever in the UK's cultural and historical imaginary. Known first as 'the Great War' and then 'the war to end all wars', it was fought in new ways with new technologies, with unprecedented psychological effects on its participants, and this led writers and artists - many of whom were combatants - to find new forms to describe it.

This week, Juliet talks to Charlotte Jones (King's College London) about how the war has been represented from 1914 to the present, especially in poetry, memoir and literature, and why portrayals in film and TV cause so much anxiety for those who insist it be remembered as a heroic sacrifice rather than a senseless waste.

SELECTED REFERENCES

LAURENCE BINYON, 'For the Fallen' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen

Blackadder Goes Forth (TV series, 1989) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/blackadder-michael-gove-historians-first-world-war

Blast (journal, 1914-15) - https://spikemagazine.com/wyndham-lewis-blast-an-explosive-journal/

MARY BORDEN, The Forbidden Zone (1929) - http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Borden2/fz.html

Rupert Brooke

Mira Calix - Beyond the Deepening Shadows: The Tower Remembers (2018)

Alan Clark (diarist/MP)

Jeffery Daly

JEREMY DELLER, 'We're Here Because We're Here' (2016)

T. S. Eliot

Richard Evans (historian)

Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer)

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henri-gaudier-brzeska-1143

Julian Grenfell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Grenfell

RADCLYFFE HALL, 'Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself' (1926) - https://bartee11.wordpress.com/texts/radclyffe-halls-miss-ogilvy-finds-herself/

RADCLYFFE HALL, The Well of Loneliness (1928)

THOMAS HARDY, 'Men Who March Away' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57195/men-who-march-away

F. W. Harvey - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Harvey

Homer (Greek poet)

Horace (Roman poet)

T. E. Hulme - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/t-e-hulme

ALDOUS HUXLEY, Brave New World (1932)

DAVID JONES, In Parenthesis (1937) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Parenthesis

JOE KENNEDY, Authentocrats (2018) - http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/64/the-great-northern-morlock-hunt

RUDYARD KIPLING, Epitaphs of the War (1919) - http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_epitaphs1.htm

Wyndham Lewis - https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTlewis.htm

F. T. MARINETTI, 'War, the World's Only Hygiene' (1911) - https://www.unknown.nu/futurism/war.html

The Monocled Mutineer (TV series, 1986) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092404/

Charles S. Myers - https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/06/shell-shocked.aspx

C. R. W. Nevinson - https://spartacus-educational.com/ARTnevinson.htm

Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh! What a Lovely War (dir. Richard Attenborough, 1969)

WILFRED OWEN, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' (1918) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46560/dulce-et-decorum-est

Ezra Pound

Herbert Read - https://spartacus-educational.com/FWWread.htm

Isaac Rosenberg - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/isaac-rosenberg

Siegfried Sassoon - https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/siegfried-sassoons-statement-of-protest-against-the-war-and-related-letters

George Bernard Shaw

C. H. Sorley - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sorley

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' (1854) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade

They Shall Not Grow Old (dir. Peter Jackson, 2018) - https://silentlondon.co.uk/2018/10/16/lff-review-they-shall-not-grow-old-honours-veterans-but-not-the-archive/

'To Suffragettes' (BLAST, 1914) - http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Blast/Blast1-1_To-Suffragettes.pdf

Vorticist artists: David Bomberg, Jessica Dismorr, William Roberts, Helen Sanders, Dorothy Shakespear, Edward Wadsworth - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2011/06/vorticism-exhibition-lewis

REBECCA WEST, The Return of the Soldier (1918) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Soldier

This week, Tom Overton interviews Dr Clive James Nwonka (http://www.lse.ac.uk/sociology/people/Clive-Nwonka) about White Screen/Black Images - Nwonka's new course about black cinema at the London School of Economics (http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/calendar/courseGuides/SO/2018_SO4A9.htm). They also discuss issues of diversity (a peculiarly New Labour concept) against equality, the relationship between art, grime and cinema; highlights of the recent London Film Festival; and much more.

SELECTED REFERENCES

James Baldwin

BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee, 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/aug/18/blackkklansman-spike-lee-film-ku-klux-klan

Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada, 2018) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/oct/04/blindspotting-review-carlos-lopez-estrada

Boyz n the Hood (dir. John Singleton, 1991) - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/oct/27/boyz-n-the-hood-review-blistering-humanitarian-classic-john-singleton

Bullet Boy (dir. Saul Dibb, 2004) - http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1208336/index.html

East Is East (dir. Damien O'Donnell, 1999) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166175/

Paul Gilroy

Stuart Hall

DAN HANCOX, Inner City Pressure (2018) - https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/grime-the-thatcherite-ideal-ft-dan-hancox/

If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2018) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Beale_Street_Could_Talk_(film)

Buster Keaton

Professor Sarita Malik - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77dGnnF4VQ

Steve McQueen (filmmaker): Hunger (2008); Shame (2011); 12 Years a Slave (2013); Widows (2018) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_McQueen_(director)

KOBENA MERCER (ed.), Black Film British Cinema (1988) - https://issuu.com/icalondon/docs/blackfilmbritishcinema

OLI MOULD, Against Creativity (2018) - https://soundcloud.com/suite-212/against-creativity-an-interview-with-oli-mould

Oasis (band)

Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, 2018) - https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/09/tiff-film-review-roma/

Dr Anamik Saha

Set It Off (dir. F. Gary Gray, 1996) - http://itsmadeinstone.com/arts-entertainment/2016/11/8/set-it-off-the-original-squad-goals

James Snead - http://yamp.org/Profiles/JamesSnead

So Solid Crew

Sorry to Bother You (dir. Boots Riley, 2018) - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sorry-bother-you-director-boots-riley-blasts-foreign-distributors-refusing-carry-a-black-movie-1132252

The Stuart Hall Project (dir. John Akomfrah, 2013) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/stuart-hall-project-john-akomfrah-interview

'That's All I Ask' (Nina Simone) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBbV0NPAx4

Ashley Walters - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0910180/

Kanye West

This week, Tom Overton talks to Sarah Shin (co-founder of Ignota Books) and So Mayer (author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema and other books) about new currents in feminist poetry and politics that use magic and myth-making as tools to reconsider the world, and create new narratives that might improve it. The show also includes readings from Jen Calleja, Lucy Mercer and Jane Yeh, all of whom feature in Ignota's debut publication 'Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry' - which will be on sale at the New Suns feminist festival at the Barbican on Saturday 3 November.

SELECTED REFERENCES

Ignota Books - https://ignota.org/

New Suns festival - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-a-feminist-literary-festival

Feminist Library crowdfunder - https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/help-the-feminist-library-build-its-new-home

WALTER BENJAMIN, The Arcades Project

John Berger

Nicole Bettencourt Coelho

Tarana Burke (#MeToo)

OCTAVIA BUTLER - Parable of the Talents (1988) - https://io9.gizmodo.com/archives-reveal-what-octavia-butlers-next-books-would-h-1590584994

JEN CALLEJA – Serious Justice (2016) - https://testcentre.org.uk/product/serious-justice/

FEDERICO CAMPAGNA, Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality (2018) - https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/technic-and-magic-9781350044036/

CA Conrad

SARAH FAITH GOTTESDIENER, Many Moons - https://visualmagic.info/many-moons-workbooks-archive/

ROXANE GAY (ed.), Not That Bad (2018) - https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/not-that-bad/

DONNA HARAWAY, Staying with the Trouble (2016) - http://thechart.me/book-review-donna-haraway-staying-with-the-trouble/

Hildegard von Bingen - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen

Zora Neale Hurston

Bhanu Kapil - http://clinicpresents.tictail.com/product/threads

LAO TZU - Tao Te Ching - https://www.shambhala.com/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-896.html

Ursula K. Le Guin - https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6253/ursula-k-le-guin-the-art-of-fiction-no-221-ursula-k-le-guin

Huw Lemmey

AUDRE LORDE, ‘Poetry is a Luxury’ - https://www.silverpress.org/your-silence-will-not-protect-you/

Terence McKenna - https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/pam38b/terence-mckenna-zuvuya-dream-matrix-telemetry-interview

Lucy Mercer - http://www.thewhitereview.org/contributor_bio/lucy-mercer/

Nisha Ramayya

Sabrina Scott - https://www.witchbody.com/

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline (1623)

Victoria Sin - http://victoriasin.co.uk/

Sriwhana Spong – a hook but no fish (exhibition) - https://pumphousegallery.org.uk/programme/a-hook-but-no-fish

REBECCA TAMÁS – Savage - https://poetryschool.com/reviews/review-savage-rebecca-tamas/

Simone Weil

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (dir. Arwen Curry, 2018) - https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2018/event/new-suns-worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin-pg-screentalk

JANE YEH, The Ninjas (2012) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/nov/23/the-ninjas-jane-yeh-poetry-review

Bill Morrison's most recent feature film, 'Dawson City: Frozen Time' (2016) is an astonishing look at the history of early cinema, and of North America in the early 20th century, told almost entirely with footage found buried in the former gold-mining town. But it is the product of a 25-year film career in which Morrison has built a distinctive way of telling stories using archive film, often in states of decay, and contemporary music. This week, Juliet talks to Morrison about his practice, from his time at film school to the present.

SELECTED REFERENCES

WORKS BY BILL MORRISON

Full filmography: http://billmorrisonfilm.com/bio-filmography

The Film of Her (1996) - http://sensesofcinema.com/2006/the-films-of-bill-morrison/morrison-film-of-her/

Decasia (2002) - https://bombmagazine.org/articles/bill-morrisons-decasia-the-state-of-decay/

Who by Water (2007) - https://vimeo.com/48669901

Spark of Being (2010) - https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/spark-of-being-1117946734/

The Miners' Hymns (2011) - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/mar/16/the-miners-hymns-barbican-review-morrison-johansson

The Great Flood (2013) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/american-refugees-bill-morrison-s-great-flood

Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014) - https://vimeo.com/125601994

Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) - https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/08/16/dawson-city-after-gold-rush/

Robert Breer - https://lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-37-robert-breer

The Clock (dir. Christian Marclay, 2010) - https://frieze.com/article/about-time-christian-marclays-clock-receives-its-tate-modern-premiere

Gustav Deutsch & Peter Tscherkassky - https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/library/essay/24-frames-a-second

Fantasia (dir. Various, 1940)

Flesh for Frankenstein (dir. Paul Morrissey, 1973)

Frankenstein (dir. J. Searle Dawley, 1910) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-fM9meqfQ4

Frankenstein (dir. James Whale, 1931)

Michael Gordon (Bang on a Can)

The Green Fog (dir. Guy Maddin, 2017) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/green-fog-guy-maddin-giddy-san-francisco-vertigo-remake

La Jetée (dir. Chris Marker, 1962) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLfXCkFQtXw

Jóhann Jóhansson

Peter Kubelka - https://www.filmcomment.com/article/peter-kubelka-frame-by-frame-antiphon-adebar-arnulf-rainer/

Saved from the Titanic (dir. Étienne Arnaud, 1912, lost)

MARY SHELLEY, Frankenstein (1818)

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (dir. Ken Jacobs, 1969) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYzi_qIYdc

You Will Be Free (dir. Juliet Jacques, 2017) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=288L2CRNfZU

Young Frankenstein (dir. Mel Brooks, 1974)

Toute la mémoire du monde (dir. Alain Resnais, 1956) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0RVSZ_yDjs

Despite decades of censorship and neglect, Peter Watkins (http://pwatkins.mnsi.net/) has created a body of work that marks him out as one of the UK’s greatest filmmakers. Born in Surrey in 1935, Watkins began his career pioneering the ‘docu-drama’ in two works for the BBC: historical drama Culloden (1964) about the final battle in the Jacobite rebellion, and The War Game (1965), speculating about a nuclear attack on the UK. The BBC refused to broadcast the latter, and after his feature film Privilege (1968) had a poor commercial and critical reception, Watkins spent the rest of his career in exile.

In his theoretical writing, teaching and filmmaking, Watkins has challenged the ‘monoform’ – a standardisation of Mass Audio-Visual Media that barrages its audience with a rapid flow of changing images and sounds, with the intention of preventing any real contemplation. Joining Juliet to discuss Watkins' work is Gareth Evans, former editor of Vertigo magazine and adjunct Moving Image Curator at Whitechapel Gallery.

Watkins on the monoform and the global media crisis: https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/library/documents/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-the-global-media-crisis/

SELECTED REFERENCES

FILMS BY PETER WATKINS

The Forgotten Faces (1960) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/subscription/film/watch-the-forgotten-faces-1961-online

Culloden (1964) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkxW-nB0nNU

The War Game (1965) - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02zy7nt/the-war-game

Privilege (1966) - https://player.bfi.org.uk/rentals/film/watch-privilege-1967-online

The Gladiators (1969) - https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/the-gladiators

Punishment Park (1971) - https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2005/jul/08/4

Edvard Munch (1974) - https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/art-of-the-real-edvard-munch-by-peter-watkins/

The Journey (1987) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsYLt9bSRbw

The Freethinker (1992-94) - http://seul-le-cinema.blogspot.com/2012/01/freethinker.html

La Commune (2000) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ1S18jsyyw

WILLIAM BLAKE, ‘Jerusalem’

Blowup (dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966)

BERTOLT BRECHT, The Days of the Commune (1955) - http://daysofthecommune.com/pages/play.html

A Clockwork Orange (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1971)

GUY DEBORD, ATTILA KOTÁNYI & RAOUL VANEIGEM, ‘Thesis on the Paris Commune’ (1962) – http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/Pariscommune.htm

End of Days (dir. Peter Hyams, 1999)

Future Revolutions: New Perspectives on Peter Watkins (2018) - https://wolfberlin.org/en/wolf-shop/book-new-perspective-on-peter-watkins-future-revolutions

If … (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1968)

It Happened Here (dir. Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo, 1965) - https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/interviews/it-happened-here-kevin-brownlow

Jubilee (dir. Derek Jarman, 1978)

V. I. LENIN, ‘Lessons of the Commune’ (1911) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1908/mar/23.htm

The Living Dead (dir. Adam Curtis, 1995) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xoM6-1SWl4

Manfred Mann

KARL MARX, ‘The Civil War in France’ (1871) – https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/index.htm

Ralph Miliband - https://www.marxists.org/archive/miliband/index.htm

The New Babylon (dir. Grigori Kozintsev & Leonid Trauberg, 1929) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOhcTuFYe0

O Lucky Man! (dir. Lindsay Anderson, 1973)

Stanisław Przybyszewski - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Przybyszewski

Role of a Lifetime (dir. Deimantas Narkevičius, 2003) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EREtDfYoM

August Strindberg

Threads (dir. Mick Jackson, 1984)

West of the Tracks (dir. Wang Bing, 2002) - https://theartsofslowcinema.com/2017/05/16/west-of-the-tracks-wang-bing-2003/

Who is America? (TV series, 2018)

ÉMILE ZOLA, La Débâcle (1892) - https://readingzola.wordpress.com/2014/01/14/la-debacle-the-downfall/

John Calder (1927-2018) was a giant of 20th century literary publishing, and a champion of free speech. Best known for publishing Samuel Beckett's novels and poetry, he brought much of the most innovative European literature of the 20th century to an English-speaking audience, ultimately won a landmark obscenity trial over Hubert Selby Jr's 'Last Exit to Brooklyn' and has inspired several generations of exciting writers and publishers.

Joining Juliet to discuss Calder's life and legacy is Alex Kovacs, author of 'The Currency of Paper' (2013), who worked in Calder's bookshop in London in 2008-10.

Alessandro Gallenzi's obituary for John Calder: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/21/john-calder-obituary

Huw Nesbitt's interview with John Calder (2008) - https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/nndv5k/john-calder-443-v15n12

SELECTED REFERENCES

HENRI ALLEG, La Question (1958) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Question

Lord Altrincham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grigg,_2nd_Baron_Altrincham

Fernando Arrabal - http://www.arrabal.org/

ANTONIN ARTAUD, Collected Works (vols. I-IV)

Howard Barker

AUBREY BEARDSLEY, Under the Hill - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Hill

SAMUEL BECKETT, The Unnameable (1953) and Waiting for Godot (1953)

William S. Burroughs

Steven Berkoff

Peter Brook

JOHN CALDER, The Philosophy of Samuel Beckett (2001) and The Theology of Samuel Beckett (2012)

JOHN CALDER, Pursuit (2001) - https://almabooks.com/product/pursuit-memoirs-john-calder/

Henri Chopin - https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/35-henri-chopin/overview/

COPI, Eva Perón (1970) - https://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/music-and-performance/2012/04/parodying-eva-perón

Ashley Dukes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Dukes

Marguerite Duras

JEAN GENET, The Maids (1947)

Allen Ginsberg

John Glassco

The Godot Company - https://actors.mandy.com/uk/company/18184/the-godot-company

Grove Press

OWEN HATHERLEY, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010)

RAYNER HEPPENSTALL, The Woodshed (1962) and Raymond Roussel: A Critical Guide (1966)

ALGER HISS, In the Court of Public Opinion (1957) - https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1957/5/17/hiss-defends-position-in-public-opinion/

I Shot Andy Warhol (dir. Mary Harron, 1996)

Eugène Ionesco

B. S. Johnson

GEORG KAISER, From Morning to Midnight (1912/16) - https://www.cineaste.com/spring2011/from-morning-to-midnight-web-exclusive/

Anna Kavan

ALEX KOVACS, The Currency of Paper (2013) - https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2013/09/currency-paper-alex-kovacs-how-capitalism-affects-art

VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY, The Bathhouse (1930)

HENRY MILLER, Sexus (1949) and Tropic of Cancer (1934)

EDDIE MILNE, No Shining Armour (1976) - https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isj/1976/no093/rees.htm

Carole Morin

Olympia Press (Maurice Girodias) - https://bookblast.com/blog/spotlight-maurice-girodias-olympia-press-indie-publishers-remembered/

Peter Owen (publisher)

Luigi Pirandello

ANN QUIN, Berg (1964) and (1969) - http://thequietus.com/articles/24056-ann-quin-lara-pawson-stewart-home-juliette-jacques-lee-rourke-isabel-waidner

ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET, Jealousy (1957) - http://conversationalreading.com/alain-robbe-grillet-and-jealousy/

Raymond Roussel

Nathalie Sarraute

Jean-Paul Sartre

HUBERT SELBY JR, Last Exit to Brooklyn (1966) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/01/last-exit-to-brooklyn-hubert-selby-appeal-1968

Yulian Semyonov - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulian_Semyonov

Claude Simon

T. Dan Smith - https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/stories-shocked-tyneside-high-rise-7236347

Roland Topor

Alexander Trocchi

TRISTAN TZARA, Seven Dada Manifestos - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80258.Seven_Dada_Manifestos_and_Lampisteries

Kenneth Tynan - https://www.theguardian.com/arts/critic/feature/0,,567652,00.html

Snoo Wilson

Olwen Wymark

Contemporary publishers: And Other Stories; Dalkey Archive Press; Fitzcarraldo Editions; Galley Beggar; Melville House.

Since becoming independent from the collapsing Soviet Union in 1991, Kyrgyzstan has attracted some attention in the West for its two revolutions (in 2005 and 2010) and the 'gay propaganda' bill introduced to its parliament in 2014, but never passed. Sometimes referred to by European liberals as 'the Switzerland of Central Asia' for its relatively democratic constitution, Kyrgzystan has a complicated relationship with its Soviet past, a fascinating artistic history and a vibrant queer and feminist culture fighting hard against virulent homophobia and misogyny.

In this episode of Suite (212) Extra, Juliet Jacques - who has twice visited Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, and written extensively about the country's LGBTQI politics - talks to Communist and LGBTQI artist-activists Georgy Mamedov and Mohira Suyarkulova. They discuss the creation of Soviet Kirghizia, the Kyrgyz language and Stalin's 'Russification', the development of Kyrgyz painting, the refusal to 'de-Communise' after 1991, the School of Theory & Activism in Bishkek, queer/feminist science fiction and zines, the relationship between art and activism, and much more.

Juliet's recent Open Democracy article on LGBTQI politics in Kyrgyzstan - https://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russia/juliet-jacques/fear-and-loathing-in-kyrgyzstan

(Cover image by Metagalaktika)

SELECTED REFERENCES

Gapar Aitiev - https://soviet-art.ru/soviet-kyrgyz-painter-gapar-aytiev-1912-1984/

Semen Chuikov - https://prabook.com/web/semen.chuykov/949822

Yegveniy Fiks - https://yevgeniyfiks.com/home.html

The Gay Laboratory (Gei-laboratoriia - Leningrad, 1983-84)

Masha Gessen - https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/masha-gessen-putinspeak-in-kyrgyzstan.html

Owen Hatherley

Evald Ilyenkov (1924-1979) - https://www.marxists.org/archive/ilyenkov/

Interhelpo (1920s commune) - http://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/10558/letter-from-bishkek-utopia-garden-city-interhelpo

JULIET JACQUES, ‘The Woman in the Portrait’ (2014) - https://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no33b.pdf

Aleksandra Kollontai - https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/

Kurmanjan Datka, Queen of the Mountains (dir. Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, 2014) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2640460/

SCOTT LIVELY, Pink Swastika

GEORGY MADEMOV & OKSANA SHATALOVA, ‘Against Simple Answers’ - (2017) http://artseverywhere.ca/2017/08/17/against-simple-answers/

László Mészáros (Hungarian sculptor, 1905-1945) - https://www.hung-art.hu/frames-e.html?/english/m/meszaros/index.html

Metagalaktika - https://www.facebook.com/Metagalaktika-1897353940522957/

Vladimir Oratsov (artist from Tashkent)

Queer in Space: Kollontai Communist Archive (dir. STAB, 2015) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXIK_oqjBQ

Oksana Shatalova

STAB, The Concepts of the Soviet

STAB, Utopian Bishkek

SYINAT SULTANALIEVA, ‘Element 174’ (2017) - https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/9831/being-lgbtq-element-174-syinat-sultanalieva-shtab

Utterly Other / Completely Different (Kyrgyz science fiction anthology)

Uzbek Metro - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/aug/24/uzbekistan-secret-underground-tashkent-metro-in-pictures

Weird Sisters (fanzine) - https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/8406/new-east-100-zines-diy-freedom-expression

How does capitalism hijack the idea of creativity for profit? Why does it encourage us to be 'creative' in every move we make? Does this make the very concept of 'creativity' meaningless, or can it be reclaimed?

This week, Tom Overton talks to Oli Mould about his new book 'Against Creativity' (Verso, 2018 - https://www.versobooks.com/books/2852-against-creativity). They discuss how neoliberalism and particularly the New Labour project have used the concept, how it has fed into gentrification, its relationship with Silicon Valley and its 'algocracy', and with the social and bio-medical models of disability.

OLI MOULD, Urban Subversion and the Creative City - https://tacity.co.uk/books/urbansubversion/

THEODOR W. ADORNO & MAX HORKHEIMER - Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/08/frankfurt-school-dialectic-of-enlightenment

LEWIS CARROLL, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Class War and the Cereal Killers café - https://infinitelyfullofhope.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/a-note-on-the-cereal-cafe-getting-attacked/

Jack Coulter (painter) - https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/meet-artist-turning-synesthesia-art/

Chris Downey (architect) - http://www.arch4blind.com/

Tracey Emin

RICHARD FLORIDA, The Rise of the Creative Class (2002) - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/oct/26/gentrification-richard-florida-interview-creative-class-new-urban-crisis

Noel Gallagher

ADAM GRANT, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (2016) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/16/originals-adam-grant-end-of-average-todd-rose-review

ARTHUR KOESTLER, The Act of Creation (1964) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Act_of_Creation

MARCEL MAUSS, The Gift (1925) - https://libcom.org/files/Mauss%20-%20The%20Gift.pdf

Space Hijackers - http://www.culturalhijack.org/index.php/participating-artists/88-space-hijackers

The Spice Girls

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was one of the last surviving members of the Surrealist movement, and one of the most singular figures in English modernism. A writer, painter and sculptor, who moved from an English country house to Mexico City, via Paris and New York, Carrington’s life spanned incredible political changes and numerous cultural movements, yet her interests and style remained consistent across the different fields in which she worked.

This week, Juliet talks to Mexican novelist and critic Chloe Aridjis about her personal and creative relationship with Carrington, as well as Carrington’s life and work, and its influence on Josh Appignanesi’s new film Female Human Animal, in which Chloe and Juliet both appear.

WORKS REFERENCED

WORKS BY LEONORA CARRINGTON

The Debutante and Other Stories (2017) - https://www.silverpress.org/the-debutante-and-other-stories/

Down Below (1943) - https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-strange-irreverent-worlds-of-down-below-and-the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington/

The Hearing Trumpet (1974) - https://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2016/07/20/surreal-old-people-leonora-carringtons-the-hearing-trumpet/

Tate Liverpool exhibition (2015)

CHLOE ARIDJIS, Book of Clouds (2009), Asunder (2013) and Sea Monsters (2019) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_Aridjis

Homero Aridjis - https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=13

André Breton

Claude Cahun

Robert Capa - https://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/the-mexican-suitcase-a-fascinating-chapter-in-the-history-of-photography/

LEWIS CARROLL, Jabberwocky (1871)

Ithell Colquhoun - http://www.ithellcolquhoun.co.uk/

Salvador Dalí

HUGH SYKES DAVIES, Petron (1935) - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/hsd-watson.html

Toni Del Renzio - https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/18/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Eisenstein in Guanajuato (dir. Peter Greenaway, 2015)

Max Ernst, ‘Two Children Menaced by Nightingale’

Female Human Animal (dir. Josh Appignanesi, 2018) - http://film.britishcouncil.org/female-human-animal

DAVID GASCOYNE, Man’s Life is This Meat (1936) - http://www.bookride.com/2012/08/mans-life-is-this-meat.html

DAVID GASCOYNE, A Short Survey of Surrealism (1935) - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/02/poetry

Ernő Goldfinger

Peggy Guggenheim

ALDOUS HUXLEY, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)

International Surrealist Exhibition (Burlington Galleries, 1936)

Edward James - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04y9gsw

Humphrey Jennings & Charles Madge - http://jacketmagazine.com/20/meng-jen-madg.html

The Kabala

Frida Kahlo

Edward Lear

E.L.T. Mesens - https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/e-l-t-mesens-1624

Violette Nozières - http://unrealisedfutures.tumblr.com/post/162742317295/e-l-t-mesens-violette-nozieres

Octavio Paz

Benjamin Péret - https://www.atlaspress.co.uk/index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=2

Beatrix Potter

Gisèle Prassinos - https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/43480/gis%C3%A8le-prassinos-reading-her-poems-surrealists

¡Que Viva México! (dir. Sergei Eisenstein, 1932)

HERBERT READ, Surrealism (1936)

Diego Rivera

Mary Shelley

Dylan Thomas

Marina Warner - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/06/leonora-carrington-from-high-society-to-surrealism-in-praise-of-100-years-on

Imre Weisz