Guest artist ANNA CLEGG joins curator and critic VANESSA MURRELL to discuss her multi-disciplinary art practice via 'My Loose Thread' by Denis Cooper. Published in 2002 by Canongate Books, this claustrophobic novel circulates around teenage Larry who is wrestling with the point of his own existence and explores teen depression, moral vacuity and the confusion of love.

Please be warned that in following the content of Cooper's text, the programme contains references to violence and suicide.

Anna and Vanessa's discussion also encompasses psychedelics, obsession, faux Nazis, feeling violated, animal stickers, unwavering sensitivity, stupid imagery, internal rhyming, Santa Claus, swimming through mud, looping back on oneself, eyes being gummed shut, the value of confusion, dark and disturbing worlds, begrudging awareness of the reader, not being able to fathom the logic of decision making, writing through an idea rather than creating a story, and the steampunk weaponisation of ice skates.

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Recorded at Cubitt Community Radio by Andi Armishah

Music GRIFFIN KNIPE

Production consultant LORI E ALAN

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'Half Truths' curated by Vanessa Murrell til 30 November 2023 at Unit 2 Cassia Building 97-101 Hackney Road Shoreditch London E2 8ET

ARTISTS

David Musgrave 'Lambda' 2022

James Turrell

John Baldassari 'Wrong' 1967

Joseph Cornell

BOOKS + MAGAZINES + WRITERS

Artforum magazine

Barry Pierce 'Another Magazine'

Beatrice Forster

Brett Eastern Ellis

Denis Cooper 'The George Miles Cycle' series 1989-2000

Denis Cooper 'I Wished' 2021

Elliot Jeffries

Frieze magazine

George Bataille 'Story of the Eye' 1928

Hervé Guibert 'Ghost Image' 2014

Interview magazine

Kathy Acker

Katja Kemnitz 'Too Much Love' on Tumblr

Nour El Saleh

Paul Auster

Roland Barthes 'An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative', 1975

Spin magazine

Tao Lin 'Leave Society' 2021

Tom of Finland

Victory Burgin 'Remembered Film' 2004

Vivian Sobchack

William Burroughs

MUSICIANS + FILM

Brooke Shields

Claire Denis, director and screenwriter

Larry Clark 'Bully' 2001

NLE Chopper

Terence Stamp

Xaviersobased

GALLERIES + ORGS

Chelsea School of Art

Greengrassi

Nicoletti Contemporary

Split Gallery