Author: josiespinksheep
Hackney WickED BloggED
Was totally exciting to run the official blog for my fave festival this year. I blogged in the build up to the event, now in its sixth year running, catching up with the organisers/ artists and musicians: You can read it here: http://www.hackneywicked.co.uk/blog/ n here http://hackneywickedblogged.wordpress.com/
New Internationalist – People Power
My recent article for The New Internationalist featured in the agenda section of December’s issue. It is about the fisher folk of Kudankulam, Southern India who formed a human chain in the sea to prevent a nuclear power plant from being fuelled up.
I talked to Vice Magazine about ‘hypno-freak ex’ and negging
A couple of months back I was interviewed by Vice Mag columnist Bertie Branders from ‘Pretty Girl Bullshit,’ about the ‘hypno-freak’ experiences that inspired my little e-novella ‘The Guest.’ The whole thing was tres fun. I was amused to see the other day, that Bertie infiltrated the London Seduction Society,…
The Wick Newspaper
I recently wrote an article about artist-run festival Hackney Wicked published in this Hackney-Wick based newspaper ‘The Wick’. WICKED TIMES Festival giant Glasto has been called off this year as the 2012 Olympics have reportedly nicked their cops and loos, but we’re more concerned about cancellations closer to home, such…
I talk to Madame Arcati about zine and book.
I did an interview recently with the lovely, naughy media clairvoyant recently, Madame Arcati, on her famous blog. Anyway, you can read the whole thing here and on Anorak
Under/Current Magazine: Bienalle di Venezia2011, Church of Fear
Getting a little reminiscent about the Venice Bienalle… it was so fun! Exactly one year till the next… I wrote this article last year, originally published in Under/Current magazine. Pictures by Jackson D Ferguson The international participations at the 54th Venice Biennale were as strikingly unusual as they were diverse.…
Headpress review of The Guest
Headpress, ‘The gospel according to unpopular culture,’ said this about my e-novella The Guest: “Personally, I find it harder to say whom the phenomenon of negging reflects worse on – those sexually cynical enough to employ it, or those pliable enough to so readily go eating from the palm that…
e-novella, The Guest
Friends! I have put my debut e-novella ‘The Guest’ up on Kindle, Amazon. It is (according to some nice people)…. “Derren Brown on the pull… the author deserves credit for espying this bold and relevant theme and fashioning it into a narrative that often moves with impressive momentum.” Headpress, The…
Documenta 2012
We’re off to the Documenta 13, an international contemporary art fair in Kassel, Germany, which one must journey through the Black Forest (gothic home to most fairy tales plus my fave gateu) to reach. This one only happens every five years, so we’re excited. We will be writing about it…
Bjork Interview
Today I came across this interview which I carried out five years ago with one of my all time heros – Bjork! It was conducted at an Icelandic radio station prior to a benefit gig in Rekjavik which Bjork was headlining in order to raise awareness to the effects of…