Sound and vision from the past, present and future
Over the last 30 years Stephen Petronio has established himself as one of the most influential names in American dance. His iconoclastic works fuse eclectic elements of pop culture to often explosive effect. He talked to Civilian about some of his landmark productions
"You have to know the origins of the Lake District... a place of radical ideas"
When Corinna Tomrley of the Ethel Mermaids arts and events partnership moved to London she found herself stalked by one particular Cher song
"Sad, strange, moving, deeply weird… I’m calling it now: there won’t be a better English-language novel published this year"
“Wasn’t it possible that the whole vast global city was actually knit together by the invisible threads of the underground economy?”
From Björk's Debut to Biophilia, a two decade Icelandic art adventure
20 years on, how does Irvine Welsh's quintessentially Scottish masterpiece read… in French?
Adam Neate is a self-taught British artist who began by leaving his paintings, on cardboard, on the streets of London and now has work in collections in 28 countries around the world
"Creaky plotting", overlong and a "missed opportunity". Neil Stewart finds much at fault with Eleanor Catton's much hyped Man Booker-longlisted novel
"I don’t know why I associated all this with New York City – it was recorded in Munich by Italian producer Giorgio Moroder and released before Studio 54 had even got its tax evasion systems in order"
