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Constellation artist Carla Bozulich attended a spoken word night at The Cowboy Gallery, LA on February 13 last year. Without planning to she started discussing the serious sexual assault inflicted on her as a child. She sent us this film of the reading and the accompanying essay. Film contains NSFW language
In the face of a wave of high-profile cancelations, at this year's OFF Festival Julian Marszalek finds a unique spirit of resilience indicative of the Polish spirit, victory snatched from the gaping maw of defeat by eclecticism and South Korean post-rock. (Photographs by Honorata Karapuda)
As the annual Amsterdam-based festival faces increasing popularity year on year, Christian Eede considers how Dekmantel is pushing against becoming just another dance music festival, and fits in a trip to new club De School along the way. Photos courtesy of Bart Heemskerk and Desiré van den Berg
Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being grabs Dustin Krcatovich by the dome for a journey through a sprawling back catalog that marries house and techno to cosmic jazz, industrial squall, and sonic vistas yet unknown
During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades later, with Morrissey making offensive comments about Sadiq Khan and Britain reeling from Brexit, David Stubbs asks if anything has changed
Do you want to run an amazing cross-genre, challenging festival? No problem. All you need is giant chickens, a swimming pool and fearless programming. Mat Colegate and John Doran reap the hairy caged whirlwind and report back with their findings
In August's edition of her literature in translation column, Jen Calleja considers the rising tide of xenophobia legitimatised by Brexit, the gathering popularity of Polish culture (from the written word to recorded sound), and speaks to English-to-Polish translator Marta Dziurosz. (Illustration by Richard Phoenix)
With Supernormal Festival taking place this weekend in Oxfordshire, Craft/Work spoke to Eastville Project Space, Georgia Horgan, Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film, and Matt Copson about their projects for the festival's artist sheds