Holly Antrum

Brace yourself if you have never come across the details of Pier Paolo Pasolini's brutal murder before... around midnight on 2 November 1975. 50 years ago today on the outskirts of Rome. Olivia Laing has centred her new novel, The Silver Book, around the making of Pasolini's final film, Salò (1975).

MARKÉTA'S NOTES by Holly Antrum 220 x 295mm, 32 pages across 5 concertina pamphlets + 1 double sided page, held in card folder, 2022 Artist publication by Holly Antrum from serial project (publication and film) based on archival res...

My 2022 artist publication commissioned by Camera Austria is available from Good Press, Glasgow; BFI Shop at the British Film Institute, and Good Books Peckham. The excellent Good Press have it currently available online 💚 #peterwollen #marketasnotes #fictioning goodpress.co.uk/collections/...

Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going Born into an independent Ukraine, the lives of these young women changed for ever when Russia invaded their country, forcing them to shoulder huge burdens of responsibility

Wives, mothers, fighters, activists: the millennial women keeping Ukraine going

I shared Cane's impulse to go offline and read Diane Di Prima at points around the US election cycle. In this wholly different time since Di Prima was writing, Cane's grapplings with 'Di's' poetic revolutionary mode of address are excellent. Useful responses to think about, in the form of new poems.

Morgan Quaintance: Available Light Publication launch and in-conversation

Come to our screening, in conversation and publication launch next month for Morgan's exhibition at Chelsea Space! www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/mor...

Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...

I'd characterise Threads as designed for the 1%. If you're a celebrity you get the right to broadcast, everyone else is just scrabbling around. This place (and old Twitter) follows more of an 80/20 rule - which is far better for us posting middle classes (@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com, 2024).

Given that the British Library has been the infrastructural home holding up Marxist writing since quite literally it’s inception, I think it’s basically incumbent on all attendees to Historical Materialism to go to this and show solidarity

Nice Alt text. I also bother! Have added an alert on you - thx for the tip.

Maybe this is where I also say I feel weird about the random 'A👁️-friendly' accounts which have followed me here. I fear (without any concrete evidence) that human posts are meat being fed to some AI generator. Pause for thought with posting images of work (if anyone knowledgeable has reassurance..)

I'm still staying but won't do the drip feed of work news - only if its something major 🤪

Yes I imagine people took a brief look at bsky then fell back into the patterns that are better known... but I'm sure they will be back whenever Meta again becomes a political vehicle for those in office.

Made a new Jamaica feed, for tracking Hurricane Melissa updates

Still here for the algo diversity though. It's important. Remember how this year started? Musk performed a nazi salute, many of us said a final goodbye to X, and Meta somehow managed to make thousands of people auto-follow V*nce, Tr*mp and others. Our connections through platforms are fragile 🦋

So this went well... however in the past month I've come to terms that I probably won't be posting work and career updates here as my bsky feed is so low on arts based posts or hearing from my peers. Find me on IG / LinkedIn if you're in the same field and want these sorts of updates!

Peer Review Is Protecting Animal Experiments Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

Researchers are told, explicitly or implicitly: harm animals, or your career suffers. That is not impartial. That is not progress. And it is certainly not science.

Missed this film at The Cube last month, but was able to see it on dafilms.com. The photography by the children, and the acts of taking the photographs becomes a crucial theme between sight, partial sight and blindness - and is a collaborative & poetic heart of the film.

dafilms.com/film/7197-th...

Crop of a framed textile artwork, a grey 'field' of background, consisting of white and black threads. The 'field' can be compared to the 'white noise' appearing on old TV sets. At the centre there is an ecru silhouette of a vessel, like a hookah. It appears to hold smouldering coals inside represented by wisps of red and black wool rising from a web-like stitch in grey and black thread. Other wisps can be traced across the grey 'field', in grey, black and ecru tones like small and narrow clouds. In a band of colour around the cropped detail, it suggests that the artwork is a yellow-green wall.

Detail of textiles woven (paper, wool and linen) in Tonico Lemos Auad's work 'Porcelain', 2019. Featured in 'Material Worlds - Contemporary Artists and Textiles', curated by Caroline Achaintre. Part of Hayward Gallery Touring programme, currently at The Wilson, Cheltenham. wilsonmuseum.org.uk

Uni lecturers are turning to food banks. The scandal is that it's no longer shocking This year's CEO Sleepout campaign is called 'At Your Doorstep'. The charity's CEO wants it to act as a wake-up call.

Oxford lecturers are turning to food banks.

The real scandal? That it’s no longer shocking.

We cannot let this become the status quo. Make sure to vote YES in our ballot.

www.bigissue.com/opinion/univ...

Watched to the end to learn this was a Benjamin Zephaniah poem, Handsworth's own. If only he were still with us. I've been doing a PhD for long enough to remember an online keynote talk which he gave to Techne AHRC research students. Zephaniah was an Honorary Professor at Brunel University. RIP.

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins The territory’s ancient heritage has too often been ignored. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present

‘One of the oldest urban centres on the planet’: Gaza’s rich history in ruins.

My @guardian piece on the erasure of Gaza's past. As we mourn incalculable human losses, learning about its past can help us better understand the present
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

NEW clip from our new video essay with @nsrnicek.bsky.social.

Essential viewing for understanding the AI economy.

Full video here:

youtu.be/2vN7vr0qwMo?...

DeathLand Reading Group w/ John Troyer. Screening of Blue by Derek Jarman. Join John Troyer & artist Jordan Baseman in this participatory screening & discussion group focused on Derek Jarman’s Blue at Rame Projects

Friday 10 October - Join John Troyer & artist Jordan Baseman in this participatory screening & discussion group focused on Derek Jarman’s Blue at Rame Projects, Cornwall. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deathland-...

Completely underestimated the amount of work for turning an informal 20-min slide talk that then became a 6000-word peer reviewed article, back into a 20-min slide talk but better.

Congratulations 😊

[ALBUM PREMIER: EVERYONE I LOVE IS SLEEPING AND I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH BY YARA ASMAR] - 'YARA ASMAR - EVERYONE I LOVE IS SLEEPING AND I LOVE THEM SO SO MUCH'

Radio Al-Hara is a nice place to have your ears tonight live from Palestine

www.radioalhara.net

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...

REVEALED: Donald Trump has picked Tony Blair for central role in Gaza ‘peace plan’…

…but in our inaugural investigation for @thenerve_news, we reveal extensive previously unreported links to Israeli defence, media & tech. 🧵
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ACE funding: If you're applying for Arts Council England under £30k Project Grants and use our templates, make sure you download the newest version rather than using an old one as we've updated it to reflect the new form www.the-uncultured.com/resources-ar...

Yet another reminder to the UK of what follows every time from right wing populist lawmakers - they scapegoat minorities as if to answer a country's problems.