Let’s make this clear. No ambiguity. Culture has been appropriated and compartmentalised and departmentalised and soon that is all we’ll know. Before long culture will become a facsimile of itself - our knowledge will only extend to what we’re sold, spoonfed. Independent thought will become so marginalised that it will become ineffectual – it will longer play a role in our cultural development and makers who refuse to co-operate will be relentlessly driven to the margins, to the badlands. Unseen, unheard, unimportant.

Ideas aren’t born in the mainstream, they die there.
It is about time that we, as creative beings, say no. Say no to being part of the cultural machine, say no to artspeak, say no to vacuous commentary. Nail your flag, find out, seek out others for support, affirm yourselves because they will come after you, damn you, spit on you, condescend to you.

You will be reading this well after Christmas is over. However, I write in its wake, the season of the most delicious leftovers of the year. How I love them and next year, I promise to give you some timely hints about what can be done to convert the detritus of your Christmas dinner into […]

Cork woman Annette Buckley recieved rave reviews after releasing her debut album “the ever changing colours of the sea” with 8.5 out of 10 in Hotpress. She combines lucious vocals with great piano playing, think Bjork fused with Billie Holiday and you get a sense of her vocal dexterity and quirkiness. Having collaborated with many […]

 
There is a strange part of me that is attracted to Performance Art like some sort of radiator that seeks me out or do I seek it out? When I am out in the cold. Literally.
This piece of work was a sort of follow on to the work I did in Cork last November (see […]

Our father
Old people holding on to something, in old people’s homes, nearly dead, a life gone. Seeing it all disappear, grains of sand, scared
Who art
Floating off, on some kind of cloud. Relatives waiting patiently on the other side
In heaven
What are we afraid of?  Being lonely, alone. This is heaven on Earth, forests, deserts, rivers streams, […]

When Ronan first mooted this idea for a column I was delighted – even more so to get the chance to throw in my tuppence worth. So here it is my ‘Things I Keep Going Back to…”
Before I begin I just want to clarify something. As someone who is constantly online and trawling blindly through […]

 
So what is this all about?
The anatomy of mutantspace is complex. It doesn’t lend itself to soundbites. There are no easy answers only questions and it is the questions that must be found. It must be questions that the maker must look for as he travels down the road.
Anatomy is structure and so it must […]

A new sound but the right direction… STAR, is the latest release from French bound band Carosel. Hailing from both sides of the pond, Ireland & France, these pair really know how to take a tune and popify it. They kind of tick all the boxes too; good looking, great image and most capable of […]

A mid-life crisis pushes a mild mannered Simon and Garfunkel fan to go skydiving. Andy Christie is co-owner of Slim Films, an illustration and animation studio in New York. He is a Moth GrandSlam Champion. Visit him at www.AndyChristie.com.
The Moth features people telling true, engaging, funny, touching and eye-opening stories from their lives. Hailed as […]