Postmodernity has to be one of the single most misunderstood, confusing, and widely thrown around words of the 21st century. Anyone who does a humanities degree will give you the stock answer quotation from Lyotard that postmodernism is an ‘incredulity towards metanarrtives’. Whatever that means… Anyway, postmodernism has become its own metanarrative, and the art…
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A Corrupt Aversion to Corruption
In this country, mainstream media in its totality has an aversion to using the word corruption. Not just in the sense of broadcasting corporations but in media as the central force of culture. Perhaps, if we take western democracy as the gold standard for the systems of government, the absence of this word may be…
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Outpost presents: ‘Uninhabited’- Eleanor Rodwell
Lockdown changed the concept of home radically for everybody. In some ways it might never be the same. The relationships between our bodies, our lives, and each other were all shifted into another paradigm. Amid these changes, Norwich-based artist Eleanor Rodwell was working on her recent project Uninhabited which featured in residence at Outpost Studios…
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Steve Waters and Tangled Feet: ‘Murmurations’
Murmurations is Written by Steve Waters and directed by Nathan Curry. Waters has been working alongside the Arts and Humanities Research Council and UEA to explore how it is possible for drama and performance to aid the conservation of the natural world. The show was performed at two different locations: The National Trust’s Wicken Fen…
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Bridges by Claire Sullivan
Bridges is a brutally honest portrayal of mental illness. A bridge might seem like a slightly cliched metaphor when it comes to the complex areas of life that we all navigate at some point. But Sullivan dismantles the long-flogged bridge peddled by therapists and councillors and builds a new one out of the wreckage. One…
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Are we gentrifying public houses?
Pubs are public houses, or at least they used to be. Places where anyone could, and likely would, go for a pint to meet with their local community or just sit and enjoy a moment to themselves. To some extent they still are. We all go to the pub now and then, but there are…
Arts
Balderdash: ‘Drown Your Sorrows’ preview at UEA Drama Studio
Written and performed by Alasdair Lindsay, Tom Rowntree, Alexander Wiseman, and Jack Oldcorn, ‘Drown Your Sorrows’ is a chaotic depiction of the tragically absurd comedy which lurks among the back rooms of the pub trade. The main plot sees four bartenders tussle around the recipe for the elixir of life, originally a marketing strategy devised…
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