ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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Jenny Hval Milton Court Concert Hall, London
Weird and sometimes wonderful concepts from the performance artist
Death comes for Liberals, entitled murder, Vatican hit squads, and fraternising with the Blitz killer
New releases from Public Image Ltd, William Basinski, and John Luther Adams
GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
A FAR cry from her last horror-flick and menstruation-inspired 2016 album Blood Bitch, Norwegian artist Jenny Hval’s latest release The Practice Of Love is a poetic homage to all things amour through the prism of 1990s trance music.
High concept: Jenny Hval
With this concept in mind, entering the intimate Milton Court to find Hval in a tent onstage is somewhat bemusing.
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