Over the past year, Grace Belcher has been working as a Digital Archivist intern from Metal at Edge Hill Station, Liverpool. After completing her work with the extensive (analogue) archives, […]
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Intimacy
Intimacy is incredible but also challenging. We can sometimes feel we are not doing it right or measuring up. Often we are navigating intimacy in the only ways we can […]
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Metal Presents – The Space In-between from Metalculture on Vimeo. The Space In – Between, curated by Kate Marsh and arts organisation Metal, took place on 6th September 2018 at […]
READ MORE“I learnt to distrust the normatives”: Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Reading List
Earlier this month, we had a chat with our current artist-in-residence and joint Jarman Award 2020 winner Andrea Luka Zimmerman: artist, filmmaker and cultural activist. Her work explores the common […]
READ MOREErotic Dance for Self by Rowena Gander
Erotic Dance for Self is a short practice-led research project that experiments with erotically charged movement from my perspective as a lesbian dance practitioner. I was inspired to undertake this […]
READ MOREMetal’s residency artist Bill Posters discusses Eco-Bot.Net
Metal Liverpool’s artist-in-residence, Bill Posters, discusses Eco-Bot.Net – a new online intervention launched on various social media platforms during the COP26 Climate Talks held in Glasgow, UK, challenging disinformation online […]
READ MOREEverywhere in Essex, They Are Building
Tim Burrows is the English PEN x Essex Writers House writer in residence, in partnership with Metal as part of English PEN’s year-long centenary programme Common Currency. ‘Everywhere in Essex, […]
READ MORECollage: The Shifting Model of Publicness
Imagine these two scenes: scene 1, a steam train departed in the 19th century at an inconvenient time slot, carrying workers and other passengers from ‘low classes’ in basic carriages […]
READ MOREFootsteps around Peterborough: A reflection on the first half of my residency with Metal Culture
I knew very little of Peterborough other than it was a quiet city straddling a river on the other side of Cambridgeshire from where I now call home. When I […]
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