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Alice Hattrick
Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships, titled Ill Feelings, will be published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2021.


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Ill Feelings

Feature

Issue No. 19

Alice Hattrick

Feature

Issue No. 19

My mother recently found some loose diary pages I wrote in my first year of boarding school, aged eleven, whilst she was clearing out...

Art

February 2016

'Look at me, I said to the glass in a whisper, a breath.'

Alice Hattrick

Art

February 2016

Listen to her. She is telling you about her adolescence. She is telling you about one particular ‘bender’ that...

dear Other, with pink dish   (Flo Reynolds & Cat Woodward)     in the interest of distance let me describe you: the frame of two seats, the little peg to hang a coat here, & here the way the seat cuts into space & fields intrude through the eye which casts the light by which it sees by this token a parable agon arrives at last introducing to this frame an ear where 2 flowers in a jar querulous & orange in the interest of distance (where i live) let me describe to you a rising cannon that burgeons like water how boastful  architectures of elsewhere render the film within the film: power tools to a living forehead & here in my distance drill bits cut  to precious briolettes let me say to you ‘gondwanaland’ through  the moving shapes, let me say sweet gem ‘where did you go?’ & ‘where have all the girls gone?’ & ‘where have all the not-girls gone?’ i have looked all over in this picture place which has an echo, a floor plan with two eyes open (cringe) happy accident is cosy in between: window, door, idea of door, surprise! too big to see its edges,  & holding several years this gallery space a sunken grey radiator  full of colony, this the distance i am goingthrough & into this space letting let now and let let my coat from the peg there let hold the arm i wear let slow let speak too loudly so all consents my coat in the corner slip on before leaving to go now, so letting go quiet and my permission to go quiet and look at it fleshly too much i asking quietly a frame is 5×9 and give                                                                                    remind me at this vertex my body is circumstance & its environs so let the frame i wear turn & consider a girlform (headless armless legless torso, smooth terracotta with bosom) & a not-girlform (helmet the curve of willowleaf, plumes) let hold the

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick

Contributor

August 2014

Alice Hattrick is a writer and producer based in London. Their book on unexplained illness, intimacy and mother-daughter relationships,...

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Art

July 2014

Alice Hattrick

Kristina Buch

Art

July 2014

There are many ways to make sense of the world, through language, speech and text, but also the senses and their extensions. In his...

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fiction

November 2014

The Lighted Way

Jeremy Chambers

fiction

November 2014

Dad used to believe that the souls of the dead rise up into the air and become one with...

Interview

February 2016

Interview with Gerard Byrne

Izabella Scott

Interview

February 2016

I first encountered Gerard Byrne’s eerily dislocated films at Tate Britain, where 1984 and Beyond (2005–7) was shown on...

Interview

March 2016

Interview with Franco 'Bifo' Berardi

Seth Wheeler

Interview

March 2016

Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi is a renowned theorist of contemporary media, culture and society. He has lectured at the Academia...

 

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