Temples Sun Structures: Album Review
Psychedelia has found a new era through the birth of British bands that have journeyed to discover the treasury of a hidden heritage, along with a more than willing audience ready to take the trip. ‘Sun Structures’ the debut album by Kettering based four-piece,...
Vividgrey: Soft-austere homes from Vienna
Preciousness, hand-crafted, discovery are just some of the words you could use to describe VIVIDGREY; a new soft furnishings label based in Vienna which has its own soft-austere aesthetic. Behind Vividgrey is architect, native Austrian via several years in London and...
Artist Feature: London’s young and upcoming – Red Pig Flower
“Red, to me, means reality,” says Red Pig Flower (pseudonym of a young, London-based artist from Seoul/Tokyo). She pauses – we’re talking on the phone about an upcoming exhibition, Winter Pride at Tabacco Dock, London, that she is currently preparing for, but have...
The Sunflowers at the National Gallery – A tale of two Vincents
There are some art pairs that any art lover would die to see, these coupling often appear in academic art articles and on art enthusiastic blogs but they are very very rare in life. The most recent I can remember were the two versions of Virgin on the Rocks coming...
Late Barbarians: How Civilised are we Actually? Inspired by Norbert Elias
‘In reality we are all late barbarians’. This statement, made by sociologist Norbert Elias whose book The Civilising Process inspired this exhibition series, gives this exhibition its title. The show explores the body as a site of memory, a place where histories live...
I care for others more than myself: Men’s fashion photography inspired by Robert Doisneau
Inspired by Robert Doisneau "I lose sight of both the dream and the hope. I indulge in drugs and liquor and all I wish for is to die. It's so selfish. Every day I repeat this ritual but I am still alive. I remember that there is the cello, a keepsake from my father...
The Pop Queen Returns – Lisa Stansfield is back with a new album and a new vision
“It’s really gorgeous to have people say to me it’s good that I’m back,” says soul-popster Lisa Stansfield. “Not that I had a break. People think you had a break because they haven’t seen you, but I can tell you I have been busy!” The 47-year-old is telling the truth:...
Ewok Sadness by Marijuana Deathsquads – New Video Unveiled
With a seemingly glib title like Ewok Sadness from the forthcoming album Oh My Sexy Lord you’d be forgiven for passing on this release but with this band nothing is quite as it seems. Even the band’s name Marijuana Deathsquads leads you straight up the garden path. I...
Agriturismo life at Corte Carezzabella, Rovigo: UNESCO Italy
Italy isn’t Italy without its countryside. And yes, I know the same could be easily said about England too with our Kentish Gardens, the Lake district and the Dartmoor moors etc, but the countryside of Italy is different; it is literally fed into the very identity of...
Peacock DVD review – Insight into a world that comes crashing down
When does a derailed train cease to be an accident and become a telling act of God’s cruelty? Perhaps just a short way into Peacock at the moment reclusive bank clerk John Skillpa’s (Cillian Murphy’s) reclusive existence is threatened when a train crashes in his...
Interview with Zineb Oukach co-star of Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street
Ahead of the release of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street, FLUX was afforded the privilege to speak with one of the film’s leading actresses, the Hostess of The Naomi herself Zineb Oukach. In her native Morocco Zineb Oukach has made a name for herself in the...
The Dark Would project: on, in, and out – text on text Art
The Dark Would project - a poetry/text art exhibition is currently the major winter attraction at Summerhall in Edinburgh. It fits the season – it’s a show about dying and rebirth. FLUX magazine is the media sponsor of the exhibition and in this dedicated feature we...
Canadian Horror Film Thanatomorphose – Interview with Director
Towards the close of 2013, FLUX had the opportunity to interview Éric Falardeau, the writer-director of independent Canadian horror film Thanatomorphose. Following on from his animated 2011 short film Crépuscule, Falardeau for his first foray into feature film-making...
The Venice Simplon Orient Express British Pullman – A trip back in time
Victoria Station isn’t the most elegant (or cleanest) station in London – far from it in fact; it cowers in the shadow of the gleaming glass ceilings, boutiques and champagne bars of St Pancras. However, fragments of a former decadence still do survive, visible in the...
Simon Patterson on The Dark Would exhibition and the brink of failure
Simon Patterson describes himself as a film fan, and he has experimented with video in the past, so it seems entirely appropriate that, on the subject of his approach to making art, he says: ‘Most making is editing. Usually there’s a problem - some projects you don’t...