Experimental
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Through the Viewing House
With a white ribbon of writing wrapped around its glass facade, the show home for Television Centre is encased in glass, sitting like an unopened present across from Wood Lane tube station, sunlight streaming through its walls on cloudless days. Television returns to television centre is transcribed in big, bold letters across the entrance like…
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Launch Night 1964: BBC Television Centre
Television Centre is aglow with anticipation. The date is April 20th, 1964, and the BBC is about to launch a second channel, BBC2, dedicated solely to the arts, drama and comedy. Its mascot, oddly enough, is a kangaroo named Hullabaloo. Meanwhile, Battersea Power Station too is aglow, in flames. As firefighters struggle to defeat the…
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Re-collecting Omer Fast
-Omer Fast is dead. This is a fact I discovered hidden within the first few pages of In Memory, a catalogue published by ‘The Green Box’ on the works of the artist in 2009, when I was conducting my own research. It was a statement made by the editors of the collection in response to…
Jackie Duan 