It’s Not Just A Game
During a trip in 2018 by Fifa’s president, Gianni Infantino, to Iran, 35 women were arrested for trying to enter a stadium for a match between Persepolis and Esteghlal. Julia Pilkington I only started playing a year ago but I really love it. I feel like learning and falling on my arse and m
ALLOTMENT: A Fruit Basket Of Unresolved Sibling Tension
On the evidence of the title alone, audiences might be forgiven for thinking that Jules Horne’s Allotment, performed in the BT Studio,would be play about a very English kind of parochialism. In cultural terms, the allotment has become a powerful symbol of the upper middle-class – a section of so
Three environmental poems
When the world dies in fiction, it’s palatable because it is removed from the truth. When the world is dying in reality, perhaps it is too difficult to digest into verse. As the dry seasons lengthen and fragile climate treaties dissipate into smog, the landslide into apocalypse feels more imminent
A Female DJ’s health and history
H: How did you get into DJing? E: I was living at home with my parents and my two sisters who are much older than me and when my parents would go on holiday they’d throw these ridiculous parties. They were a lot of fun and their boyfriends at the time would bring decks round […]
The Met Gala
Who would have ever thought “camp”, such a common, unassuming and frivolous, one syllable word would have ever come to saddle so many grandiose celebrity ambitions, political agendas and artistic projects? This year, “Camp: Notes on Fashion” is the theme for the Met Gala. The word was previo
Remembering the Emo Music of the Midwest
704 West High Street in the college town of Urbana, Illinois is no ordinary house. Lying in a leafy midwestern suburb, with weeds pushing through the sidewalk cracks and an overgrown front yard, a passerby could be forgiven for not looking twice at its bleached horizontal planks and single window. J
Problematizing “Frida-Mania”
2am, 3am, 4am. Every single time slot was booked when the V&A opened its doors for a full 48-hour period during the last few days of the “Making Her Self Up” exhibition. Preceded by the 2017 Frida Kahlo show at The Dalí Museum, and followed by the largest ever retrospective of the artist’
A.I. Playlist
In celebration of our forthcoming BIG DATA BIG PROBLEMS panel on the 7th February, we asked The Isis team to submit their favourite tunes inspired by the theme of artificial intelligence. The resulting playlist features tracks jam-packed with autotune, synths, ironic titles and turn-of-the-millenium
Brexit Playlist
Brexit is here! Almost! Although I haven’t really been paying attention to it because I was too young to vote. Anyway, we decided to make a whole list of songs about Brexit. Much like the process of leaving itself, it’s very long and at times incoherent. But, however you feel about it, there’s