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Rose McLaren is an artist in London.



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Talk Into My Bullet Hole

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July 2015

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for those people?’ ‘Oh, I don’t...

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May 2014

Art Does Not Know a Beyond: On Karl Ove Knausgaard

Rose McLaren

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May 2014

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle has an oddly medieval form: a cycle, composed of six auto-biographical books about the...

Resistance needs to be recorded Resistance needs symbols: ideas that can travel faster than speech, last longer than memory Nowhere is this more understood, more fought over, than in Palestine   From the inception of the Zionist project, battle has raged over language, over landscape, over image The ‘land without a people’, the ‘merciless terrorist’, the ‘humane soldier’, the occupying army searching for a ‘partner in peace’  For over one hundred years Palestine and her neighbours suffered countless defeats, losing land and lives again and again, facing up to a vastly superior military power again and again – yet somehow remaining the aggressor in the mainstream Western media   And for Palestine, public opinion in the West is one of the keys to freedom   Times are changing The internet has widened the battlefield – citizen journalists, bloggers, photographers make up a limitless army of volunteers The Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement empowers everyone with effective moral choices   The Palestine Festival of Literature, PalFest, is an annual series of readings, talks and workshops featuring writers and artists from Palestine and around the world For the last four years it’s taken place in cities across the West Bank and historical Palestine This year will be our first in Gaza   PalFest is by its very nature transient – it moves every day, crossing borders and military checkpoints to get to the audiences that aren’t allowed to come to us But its aims are long term So we’ve always made sure everything is recorded, and that videos are cut and uploaded live throughout the festival To present to the world a vision of Palestinian life that is not directly related to the Israeli occupation To show how keen the audiences are, how good the art is, how smart and resilient the students are   We were lucky to have my good friend, the documentarian Murat Gökmen, with us last year Over the festival week he went through a nasty interrogation, a full body search and a healthy dose of tear gas but he’s produced a film that captures the feeling of being on the road with PalFest and puts forward useful observations about what we’re all

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August 2014

Rose McLaren

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August 2014

Rose McLaren is an artist in London.

The Prosaic Sublime of Béla Tarr

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Issue No. 6

Rose McLaren

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Issue No. 6

I have to recognise it’s cosmical; the shit is cosmical. It’s not just social, it’s not just ontological, it’s really huge. And that’s why we...
Stalker, Writer or Professor? Geoff Dyer's Zona and Genre

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February 2012

Rose McLaren

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February 2012

‘So what kind of a writer am I, reduced to writing a summary of a film?’ wonders Geoff Dyer half way through Zona. Such...

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June 2014

Turning the Game Around

Daniel Galera

TR. Rahul Bery

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June 2014

Once upon a time there was – no, better: you are a thief who wanders through the cities and...

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April 2017

Two Poems

Fady Joudah

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April 2017

EUROPA AND THE BULL   The boat was loaded on a truck. The truck took me to the border....

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Issue No. 4

Mysteries of Music

Michael Horovitz

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Issue No. 4

Having absently, that’s to say dozily switched on BBC Radio 3 down in the kitchen as is my frequent...

 

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