It also gives a joyful and hilarious demonstration of an artist’s power to disrupt and provoke change. In quirks and quips, it calls out the uneven distribution of power that maintains the effacement of certain populations, raising questions about who gets to name and attribute meaning, who gets to express themselves, and who gets to be recognised as a creator. ‘Attrib.’ tells the story of a foley artist whose surroundings conspire to interrupt the production of a soundscape intended to glorify Michelangelo’s masterworks. ‘V’ guides us through her carefully curated mind-space, sharing choice exhibits, and passing on insights that come bubble-wrapped in verbiage, to be transported away to the mind museums of other wanderers like herself.įirst published in Temptation: A User’s Guide, Salt, 2018 Posted on JanuJanuby Jonathan Gibbs Posted in Sonya Moor Tagged Vesna Main. Fans of Temptation will know that the collection includes a more obvious candidate for this anthology, but ‘Shakespeare on the Buses’ highlights the extent to which the arts provide a home for those with only tenuous ties to any nation’s turf. Main delivers the story as an articulate, high-level, continuous stream of reported conversation from a certain ‘V’, who discusses the fit and misfit between nationality, persons and cultural artefacts, and how all this relates to notions of belonging and exile. Leave a comment ‘Loose Ends’ by Tania Hershman Collected in Sudden Traveller, Faber & Faber, 2019 Posted on JanuJanuby Jonathan Gibbs Posted in Sonya Moor Tagged Sarah Hall. Though the carved bed is not described, the story works ekphrastically, leaving the mind full of the bed’s dark veneer, the deep glow of its wood, and its finely carved motifs: a siren, swans, wavelets and the crimped edges of cockleshells… The story’s warnings and promises are sensed like those felt on contact with an object that has journeyed through centuries, absorbing countless stories on the way.įirst published, in a slightly different version, as ‘The Swan and the Courtesan’ by Sotheby’s on 2 February 2017, and is available to read here.
Her imaginings, and those of her mother, sweep into a dreamlike narration of the making and unmaking of women, past and to come. Hall’s story is set in a humbler bed, where a girl-child wakes in the night. Sotheby’s commissioned this story to showcase a 19th Century carved mahogany bed for its ‘Erotic: Passion & Desire’ sale.
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