The Learned Pig

Art – Thinking – Nature – Writing

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  • Sparrow Come Back Home

    Sparrow Come Back Home

    Sparrow Come Back Home, Carmel Buckley and Mark Harris’ exhibition at the ICA, examines a reflective side of the display of archive as monument. Taking place in the Fox Reading Room, a space where archival materials are at the heart of each show, the exhibition transforms the gallery into a visual library, a silent record…

  • Table of Contents (in the Form of a Sonnet) for an Imaginary Post-punk Poetry Chapbook

    Table of Contents (in the Form of a Sonnet) for an Imaginary Post-punk Poetry Chapbook

        1. underground cellars, Experimental Trajectories. 2. La volonté de rupture ou la beauté radicale. 3. extensive rehearsals make (even) le moins que parfait perfect. 4. I Could Not Handwrite Any Longer. 5. the TYPEWRITER becomes an ACCORDION. 6. The Poet(ess) as a Cultural Machine. 7. Converting Ulysess into a quilt—A kind of Steve…

  • Parakeets and Purity

    Parakeets and Purity

    Because the land, the country, is such a focus of horticulture, there are important moments when its extraordinary fetishisation has connected it with movements of the extreme right: rhetorically, to simplify, the land becomes the fatherland.   George McKay, Radical Gardening         I live in north-west London. Sitting in the living room…