The White Pube

little bit of a different episode this week because I am really not with it, bear with 😭 thank you to our Patreon, Paypal and Kofi supporters for tiding us over. see you next week xxx

ZM in convo with Holly Márie Parnell ! A filmmaker, a friend, a really lovely person !!! This podcast episode was mostly recorded at a live event a couple weeks ago at Sirius, an arts centre in Cobh, Ireland. Sirius are showing Holly's film, Cabbage, in the gallery until 15th April. We are also joined by Gabrielle and David, in audio form. We chat about loads of things: about the film itself but also beyond, about filmmaking as an act of love, engaging with text through the medium of film, shrinking your rig to try and make filmmaking a portable, inconspicuous practice as you relate to your subjects, and MORE! enjoy!

Cabbage is an intimate film made in collaboration with Parnell’s family, Cabbage looks at the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm. Taking place in the months leading up to an international move from Canada back home to Ireland - a country they had to leave a decade prior due to severe cuts in disability services - the film focuses on her brother David’s writings using eye tracking technology and her mother’s memories to explore how we shape a sense of self under the pervasive weight of unspoken assumptions and fixed definitions that get placed onto bodies. Dissecting layers of language, agency and power, the film is a subtle examination of how a human life is measured and valued.

Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage @ Sirius!

find Holly on Instagram, find David on Instagram, find Sirius on Instagram

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In 2018, I wrote an essay called the Problem with Diaspora Art. It set me off on a trajectory of thinking about the way art institutions interact with people of colour (as well as the fundamental politic that drives those interactions). 5 years on, I have complex feelings about this 2018 text. I often feel jealous of dancers: they get to do a run through, take a step back and assess what they did well and what they could improve, and then they get to say ‘ok, now let’s do it again’. I wish writers got to do that! — But they do! I can do whatever I like!!! So, second time lucky. Here’s the Problem with Diaspora Art 2.

you can read the text here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/tpwda2

thank you, as usual, to our friends on patreon! 

If you made it to the end! first of all, love you, second of all! pls comment a 🥭 MANGO 🥭 emoji on the IG post/tweet about this text. ok, thanks! 

new series! our brains are soup while we are busy writing a book so we are outsourcing your entertainment and learning and art-thinking; please enjoy the first of many interviews with interesting people we know, starting with v buckenham (website, twitter and instagram) and if you prefer your podcasts with bells and whistles and visuals, there is > a YouTube version of this < where you can see the art we discuss

first exhibition review since march 2020??? must be bad. Writing about edgelord artist strategies and how much things cost. The written version of this is on the art section of our website. Can't believe I had to write about art again. I'm so mad.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE! of the ultimate White Pube review: a 2016 text Gab wrote about Jesse Darling's show, The Great Near, at Arcadia Missa.

You can watch the video version of this on youtube: https://youtu.be/i_hlpuscENY   

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This week's text is a review of Sound of the Underground, a play on @ the Royal Court Theatre. Written by Travis Alabanza! co-created by Debbie Hannan! Starring icons from the UK's queer club scene! i loved it! 

read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/sound-of-the-underground/

thank you to our supporters on Patreon! & if you want to have a peep at this play, it's on until 25th Feb (here; https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/sound-of-the-underground/

! before you listen ! there are spoilers for the endings of both 2018 and 2022 games. I hope the scary gamers don't come for me. Enjoy this review of God of War Ragnarök, writing about narrative structure and fate. I've actually done a video version of this text spliced with scenes from the game if you wanna SEE what it looks like. I showed Zarina who had no concept of God of War and she was v impressed with the game. Written version on our website; support the white pube here <- thats how to join our discord too where we discuss things like this! 

this week's text is a review of Jake Grewal's Now I Know You I Am Older @ Thomas Dane. Less a review-review, more a text where the art is coincidental or circumstantial. about the  sun! and the landscape! and the sky! and i don't really know what the sublime is!!

read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/jake-grewal/ 

thank you to all our friends on patreon! 

Social media is not a fair space to showcase art but as much as artists want to delete their Instagram accounts, they feel like they have nowhere else to go. So what now? In this episode, we speak to Kim Foale (Geeks for Social Change) and artist honor ash to discuss the big secret project we are working on that we hope will provide an answer. 🎞 You can also watch this podcast in the form of a video, or read the transcript 📖 

This is the last thing we're publishing this year before we go on our annual December break (which we'll be spending in Ireland together writing the book shh). So, a big thank you for the 100,000+ listens this year, and thank you especially to our Patreon, Ko-fi, and Paypal supporters + everyone in our lovely discord!!!! :) If you enjoy the podcast, please tell your neighbour about it. Or your Nan. love from Gabrielle and Zarina x