It seemed strange to choose a 115 year old photo for the cover of what is for the most part a contemporary magazine. Yet the more I looked at the image the more necessary it became. The image just didn’t seem old, fixed or sorted out. Nostalgia hadn’t gotten in- for nostalgia isn’t simply the past in an image but the present being invited in by it to straighten it out and know better. In the image the guard still guards, the door and stairway still lead off somewhere and the moon, embedded like a wreckers ball, makes the wall appear unnervingly permeable. 115 year later and a few people have bounced across the moons surface and there are five hundred and two million photographs when you search the moon on the internet. Just as the internet voraciously slurps up images and text, the moon continues to try to pull at anything on the earth to bring it closer, causing the oceans to slosh back and forwards. Wanting everything. Wanting what it can’t get. These thoughts intertwine as Issue 5 develops; an issue that wanted the moon and the stars. Things begin to seem vast and cryptic, the surface of a coin becomes a landscape and the funereal become something to share not bury. Across this Issue the unexpected quietly coils around the familiar and I am faced with the tautological bind that the inexplicable is what it is.- Amy Marjoram
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Time Being: Being Time, Leipzig
All the people who have ever lived, and will ever live will be in Time Being: Being Time
What do we know about time? How do our perceptions of time shape our thoughts and experiences? How can visual art help in unpicking these questions? This exhibition brings together several artists who, working across a variety of media, all bring some new understanding to the nature of time and our perception of it.
Olivia Moore, Rebecca Partridge, Randi Nygard, Sally Underwood, Euan Williams, Martin John Callanan
The Neuro Bureau. Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei, Spinnereistraße 7, Leipzig
In parallel with the Brainhack conference, Max Plank Institute 1-4 September 2012
Spinnerei Open Weekend 15-16 September 2012
Make the Living Look Dead, Showroom Gallery, London
Letters 2004-06 book and All the people who have ever lived, and will ever live print included in
Make the Living Look Dead
Opening 17 April 6.30–8.30pm
18 April to 2 June 2012
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
All the people who have ever lived, and will ever live
An edition of 100, numbered and stamped prints of the work All the people who have ever lived, and will ever live. 90 were given away.