Oscar Nearly

Advert for Southern Outfall. Superimposed on an image of a man in orange high visibility clothes doing tai chi and an orange tunnel, text reading ‘a site-wide work at Crossness Pumping Station Saturday 3rd May 11-4pm’

A view of the beautifully painted Victorian ironwork hall at Crossness pumping station.

A view of the beautiful ironwork of the central octagon at Crossness Pumping Station with a woman in a hard hat in the foreground.

A large green wheel from one of the beam engines at Crossness sewage pumping station with a red column in the foreground

If you’re looking for something unusual to do in London tomorrow, make your way to Crossness sewage pumping station - the cathedral of sewage pumping stations - for Mhairi Vari’s Southern Outfall: an art installation and intervention celebrating the site’s history of engineering & volunteering.

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Zara Dinnen – Poltergeist

‘Every workplace struggle, whether as picket, or meeting, for one worker and a union rep, or hundreds and thousands of comrades, wins something back from the time that is stolen from us’

Blooming beautiful from Zara Dinnen @qmucu.bsky.social

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my first article on Hamilton, released like a ghoul from the cupboard of my imagination - on failures of speech and the ‘nightmare things of the mind’ in his radio dramas sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=316

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We're still looking for editors to take over for the next issue! If you are a PhD in the School of the Arts at Queen Mary, drop me a line...

04.12.2024 13:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A collage by Dr. Matthew Whittle, @drmattwhittle.bsky.social

Performance artist Minoru Yoshida, subject of an article by George Kan

Patrick Hamilton, subject of an article by Jennifer Kenyon, @jennykenyon.bsky.social

Feat. Zara Dinnen on the state of university unions, @drmattwhittle.bsky.social on the rhetoric of the "failure of multiculturalism", George Kan on performance artist Minoru Yoshida and @jennykenyon.bsky.social on Patrick Hamilton's radio dramas

04.12.2024 13:35 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

cover of the new journal Poltergeist, edited by Misbah Ahmed, Oscar Nearly & Ryan O'Shea

I've been helping to launch POLTERGEIST, a new peer-reviewed journal from Queen Mary University of London's School of the Arts, and I'm excited to announce that it's now online and available to read and download! Find it here:
sedpoltergeist.com?page_id=95

04.12.2024 13:35 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

oh good another social media site. I'm a writer and researcher who currently works on abandoned websites and ruins on the internet. I am usually terrible at posting or liking or any of the other algorithm-friendly activities but who knows, maybe I'll find myself here! Hope not.

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