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
"This is filmic Brigadoon. Be there next year"
A wild night in the ruins of Aleister Crowley’s Abbey of Thelema, Sicily
Visionary author and artist and Glasgow cultural icon, Gray's artwork is the subject of a retrospective at Kelvingrove Art Gallery
Stuart Semple takes his imagery from A Clockwork Orange and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Pippa Brooks finds the work… difficult
…fame, Dame Nellie Melba and Dante
"What is under there? It must be a monkey – or maybe a lemur? Even a sloth? Is it all an elaborate piece of CGI?"
"I laughed and I cried all the way through All My Puny Sorrows, a comedy about suicide"
"The figures under a black umbrella seem to be mourning; the faces of the fighters in Brothers gurn with hate"
From a jigsaw factory in Hackney to punk, high fashion and Shakespeare's Globe
Hana, Hawaii, 1984: "Jean-Michel was at his happiest and most relaxed..."
