The White Pube

This week's text is about the fact I've got the ick for Love Island itself. Season 7 has been rough but the roughness didn't begin here. I'm done with this show. I can't be dealing. 

Listen on this podcast or find the written version on The White Pube here. Thank you to our Patreon supporters for enabling this very specifically mad kind of writing. We love you a lot. 

Happy Sunday! This week's text on the White Pube is a review of the London spectacle dubbed 'a £2million SLAG HEAP'!!! it's: Marble Arch Mound!!!

This is also a text where i talk about public art after 11 years of consecutive Conservative governments, increasing reliance on private funding, and the wider corporatisation of the arts. i try to be an alien archaeologist from the future, and ask: if the Marble Arch Mound is a monument, what is it a monument to? and what does it tell us about the culture and people that made it? 

if you want to read the full text, go to thewhitepube.com/mound

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I watched all 11 seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and now this funny little review exists. It's a text about chronic illness, reality TV, and finding relief in other people's issues. Hope you enjoy! The written version of this text is available on our website here > https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/rhobh < and as always, thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping The White Pube in motion. We literally couldn't do it without you, especially while I am so out of it with Long Covid. If you too want to support TWP on Patreon, head here 💜 

This week's text is a review! of Camara Taylor's <a rant! a reel!> at Cubitt. It's the third show in Languid Hands' ongoing curatorial fellowship program, called <No Real Closure>.

You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/arant-areel

Coinciding with this show,, Camara is also premiering a film, <holus-bolus>, online at Edinburgh Art Festival. It's available until 29th August. 

'As entry to the exhibition is free, and many of us have a renewed commitment to mutual aid, we ask those that are able to donate any amount, big or small, to Glasgow-based MORE (Migrants Organising for Rights and Empowerment), a group of migrants and members of the community campaigning for the right to work, study, good housing and to be treated with dignity. Donate to their Climate Justice Is Migrant Justice fundraiser here.'

^^ The handout mentions this, and since we get a few new patrons every sunday, if you were considering signing up to our Patreon this month, pls consider putting it off for a month n donating to MORE's Climate justice fundraiser instead :)

This week's text is a review of 54 The Gate, an online show that is also a game, on Arcadia Missa's Open Office. it is also a text about how i just want art to be FUN, and why i think that's important, n worth considering when making an exhibition - especially right now!

you can read the text here: thewhitepube.com/54thegate

This week’s review is 'We Dwell in Possibility,' the new game by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis commissioned for this year’s Manchester International Festival. I write about pandemic horniness, public sex, Hieronymus Bosch and lockdown lifting. Not suitable for younger listeners. 

You can find the written version of this review here; and you can play the game for free here.

Thank you for listening & thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting!!! 🌸 

Announcing the 11th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant: Dora Maludi!

Dora sent over a collection of poems, and they really stood out and grabbed us. Dora’s poems are like small concentrated squares full of infinite detail. She writes about writing; the writing process like vomiting. She describes scars like borders. She writes like she is speaking to someone over your shoulder. And she summons whole scenes out of sketches to create these acute and honest atmospheres. We’re so glad we can support Dora through this grant, and we hope you find a similar joy in her work too! And thank you to Creative Debuts for providing the funding that allows us to offer this grant!

Bio: Dora Maludi is a fine artist and poet from London. Her practice is centred around exploring the relationship between form, language and landscape through the means of sound, video, text and movement. Anti poetry, surrealist poetry and Dada techniques inform her writing style, with the notion of rejecting traditional forms being a thorough line in her artistic endeavours. Alongside this, she is currently working on a soundscape series exploring the theme of endings and writing poems towards her first collection.

Find Dora’s Soundscapes on Bandcamp here  

You can also find Dora on Instagram here 

Read Dora's poems on the Writers Grant page

You can find out more about the Writers Grant here 

This week's review is Ghost of Tsushima, the 2020 video game about a Mongol invasion on the island of Tsushima set in the 13th century. Did I like it? Did I dislike it? The answer is no to both of those questions and I spend this text trying to figure out why. I also wonder: what does it mean when a violent story is just so beautiful? Can you be afraid of a villain you do not know? And how do you fight for something you don't quite care about?

The written version of this text can be found on our website here. Thank you for listening & thank you especially to our Patreon supporters. You are the best.

This week’s text is about the final walk in Death Stranding, the 2019 game by Kojima Productions. Back in November, I wrote a spoiler-free review that convinced a tonne of you to play it. Somebody even bought a whole PS4 off the back of that text. I return to the game now to write about its ending and to think about how emotion is achieved through narrative structure, character development, song, gameplay and loss of control. This text is chunky. I have not held back in any way. It took weeks to put together and it is the longest thing I have written in a very long time. But I dunno, it feels warranted. Again, someone bought a PS4! I get an email every other week off strangers thanking me for introducing them to the game! I am becoming a Death Stranding academic. Put me on Mastermind, I’m ready.

The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/death-stranding-final-walk but this audio recording is fun because it features clips from BB’s Theme, a song by Ludvig Forssell, performed by Jenny Plant, (c) Sony Entertainment. Enjoy!

This week's text is a review of ~Salmon: A Red Herring~, the Art Now show by Cooking Sections, at Tate Britain. 

Talking about my split feelings; between being a hardline cynic and wanting to be a Good Vibes Person, n how i liked this show against my will. 

Read the text here: thewhitepube.com/cookingsections