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The White PubeIns and outsI convince Zarina to delete her Twitter account and we say goodbye to our 20s in this New Years Resolution episode to kick off 2024. Proper reviews start next weekend but til then, there's this. YouTube if you prefer video; transcription if you wanna read instead. We're going to try to write lots of reviews this year to make up for writing a book last year so get ReadYyyyyyy :D2024-01-0747 min
The White PubeIn Conversation with... Holly Márie Parnell!ZM in convo with Holly Márie Parnell ! A filmmaker, a friend, a really lovely person !!! This podcast episode was mostly recorded at a live event a couple weeks ago at Sirius, an arts centre in Cobh, Ireland. Sirius are showing Holly's film, Cabbage, in the gallery until 15th April. We are also joined by Gabrielle and David, in audio form. We chat about loads of things: about the film itself but also beyond, about filmmaking as an act of love, engaging with text through the medium of film, shrinking your rig to try and make filmmaking a portable, i...2023-04-0248 min
The White PubeGod of War Ragnarök! before you listen ! there are spoilers for the endings of both 2018 and 2022 games. I hope the scary gamers don't come for me. Enjoy this review of God of War Ragnarök, writing about narrative structure and fate. I've actually done a video version of this text spliced with scenes from the game if you wanna SEE what it looks like. I showed Zarina who had no concept of God of War and she was v impressed with the game. Written version on our website; support the white pube here 2023-01-2929 min
The White PubeInstagram has ruined the art world. What now?Social media is not a fair space to showcase art but as much as artists want to delete their Instagram accounts, they feel like they have nowhere else to go. So what now? In this episode, we speak to Kim Foale (Geeks for Social Change) and artist honor ash to discuss the big secret project we are working on that we hope will provide an answer. 🎞 You can also watch this podcast in the form of a video, or read the transcript 📖
This is the last thing we're publishing this year before we go on our annual Decembe...2022-11-271h 32
The White PubeOur biggest fight everWe recorded an Ask Me Anything to celebrate 7 years of The White Pube. We get INTO it. We talk about Zarina's day job, the few days we worked for the Brexit festival, going viral, health, the future, what we would do if the other one died, and of course, our biggest fight ever. We actually filmed this one so if you want to watch it with some visual illustrations, the link is here and there are captions on the video too. It's all fun and games and gossip but just,,, thank you for allowing us to do this job...2022-10-071h 41
The White PubeMy diagnosis has changedI got COVID in January 2021 and I spent last year in a pit, stuck at home, no energy, in pain, dealing with the vague endlessness of Long Covid. In the middle of January 2022, I posted a one year update podcast episode where I told you lot how bad Long Covid continued to be. BUT!! At the end of that month, I had an in-person appointment with the Long Covid Clinic in Liverpool where they did a test and told me what brand of Long Covid I actually had. I was amazed. This episode is all about the disability COVID...2022-09-041h 12
The White PubeMy Favourite Painterthis week's text is about my favourite painter: Bhupen Khakhar :)
You can read the text version of this here - thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/bhupenkhakhar/ n there are lil pics of the paintings I've described in this text, if you wana see the real things rather than my description hehe
thank you to the patreon gan, as perrrrr - patreon.com/thewhitepube2022-08-2822 min
The White PubeReview: StrayA review, an emoji, and an update on our writing schedule :o I hope you like cats because this week I talk about the newly released Stray, a game I waited so long for. The written version of this text can be found on our website here. Thank you to our supporters; we have been trying in earnest to get a podcast sponsor all year and I think we are un-sponsorable so if you are a regular listener please consider giving us £1 a month if you're ableeeee ahhhh2022-08-2116 min
The White PubeREVIEW: Body Vessel Clay @ York Art GalleryThis week's text is a guided meditation, a walk through Body Vessel Clay: Black Women, Ceramics and Contemporary Art @ York Art Gallery. It's best experienced as audio, but just in case you're looking for it, the text version of this can be found on the White Pube dot com (here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/body-vessel-clay/)
As always, thank you to our patreon friends! You can join the club here: patreon.com/thewhitepube2022-08-0720 min
The White PubeReview: The Long DarkAnother review that's not so much a review and more a reflection on disability. A game about needing things, a text about learning to want more. Survival game as chronic illness simulation. Also an account of my time in London. You can find the written version of this on The White Pube! Thank you to all our supporters, and make sure you listen to the end for today's emoji :-))))) 2022-07-3115 min
The White PubeREVIEW: Sun & Sea @ the AlbanyThis week's text is a review of Sun & Sea, an opera about climate change, at the Albany as part of LIFT. It's also a text about heatwaves and the Second Body.
You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sun-and-sea/
Thank you, as usual, to our friends on Patreon! 2022-07-2413 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 023: Lottie WalkerFor the 23rd TWP Writers Grant, we’re excited to announce that July’s recipient is Lottie Walker. Lottie sent us a collection of poems and we were immediately smitten with their cleverness and dexterity. Lottie’s poems had a sharpness, this citrus kick that felt like salt on a wound. They stung us and in the same, offered a full complexity that we could chew on. We’re sharing that collection of Lottie’s poems as well as the first chapter of the novel she’s working on: Wild Garlic. So, with the help of Creative Debuts, we are glad we...2022-07-1807 min
The White PubeLevel One Identity ArtThis week I'm thinking about all the identity art that just lets me know people with different identities exist and nothing more. Listen here or find the written version of this on the art section on our website where I have also added a p.s. with some more examples of Level One Identity Art. Wishing you shade and relief in this genuinely terrible heatwave. God help us all.
Thank you to our Patreon/Kofi/Paypal pals who keep The White Pube's weekly writing going!!!! See you on discord for the post-text debrief!!!2022-07-1716 minThe White PubeREVIEW: Munch @ the CourtauldThis week's text is about Munch's paintings, a lil walk through of when i went to see the masterpieces from Bergen show at the Courtauld and had a really nice time
read it here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/munch/
and thank you, as usual, to friends on Patreon!
😱2022-07-1018 min
The White PubeReview: Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison RumfittA book review! A book you should all go and buy now. This week's review is on Tell Me I'm Worthless, the debut novel from Alison Rumfitt. A book about a haunted house; a book about fascism.
You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website
Thank you to our Patreon+Paypal+Kofi supporters for keeping us in business !!!!! Join the discord here 2022-07-0324 min
The White PubeReview: Cloud Point at Paradise RowThis week's text is a review of Cloud Point, a group show curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, at Paradise Row.
Read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/cloud-point/2022-06-2610 min
The White PubeReview: Everything Everywhere All At OnceNow the highest grossing A24 film of all time, this week's review is Everything Everywhere All At Once. I had an issue with the way it ended but I think that's on me 🤪 You can find the written version of this on the /misc section of our website & as always, thank you to our good looking genius supporters for keeping us in business we love you 2022-06-1216 min
The White PubeREVIEW: RIP Germain, Shimmer @ Two QueensThis week's text is a review of RIP Germain's show, Shimmer, which was on at Two Queens in Leicester.
read it here: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/art-reviews/shimmerripgermain/
& as always, thank you to our friends on patreon! 2022-06-0512 min
The White PubeReview: @BoschBotDo you know Hieronymus Bosch's painting The Garden of Earthly Delights? Do you know the Twitter bot that just posts close-ups of the painting all day long? This week's review is Bosch Bot, thinking about a bot as a curatorial tool and just how much more engaged I am with the painting via this mad Twitter presentation than I would be if I was stood in the Prado in Madrid squinting at it IRL.
You can find the written version of this on our website: thewhitepube.com
++++ follow Bosch Bot here: twitter.com/boschbot2022-05-2916 min
The White PubePortrait of a Director of an Artist-led Space in LeicesterThis week's text is a second portrait in our ongoing series, having a snoop and a natter, chatting to people around the UK for a sneaky peek into what creative life is like for people wherever they are.
This text is a portrait of the co-Director of an artist-led space in Leicester, we go to a sports bar, eat Masala Mogo and chat about everything: from art as an alternative value system, to why charitable status is not always the answer, and why failure is good sometimes.
you can read the full text here: thewhitepube.co...2022-05-2245 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 021: Rutendo D. BradleyFor the 21st recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant, we are very excited to support the work of Rutendo D. Bradley. Rutendo sent us an excerpt from the novel she started as part of her dissertation, ‘The Devil’s King,’ a project she is now hoping to work on full-time. The opening we read was so effective in its world-building, with its historical language and raw landscape, and its intense population of kings and knights and soldiers and the ways that they speak. The chapter also has this kind of fateful promise that this story is going to be dif...2022-05-1616 min
The White PubeReview: @afffirmationsApparently I'm just really into thinking about social media atm, so continuing on from the Chaotic Nightclub Photos review, in this episode I look at @afffirmations on Instagram. Thinking about sincerity, irony, not knowing what's going on, mental wellbeing, and how I want to spend my time online. You can find the written version of this review here. Thank you for listening 8-) Thank you to our Patreon/Paypal/Kofi supporters I love you2022-05-1525 min
The White PubeAre white girls capable of making art that's not about themselves?It's white girl art revisited! uh-oh. In 2019, I wrote a text that was read by way more people than I was expecting. It caused a stir, caused me nightmares, and I've buried my head in the sand about it ever since. In this episode, we re-read the text and give it a much-needed exorcism. You can find the transcription for this episode on our website here. I'm sweating
Thank you to our Patreon, Paypal and Ko-fi pals for supporting this writing - maybe not this piece in particular lol - but in general 2022-05-111h 23
The White PubeShenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, Ah No So It Go, Go So! @ CubittThis week's text is a review of Shenece Oretha: Ah So It Go, A No So It Go, Go So! at Cubitt. It's also the last show of Languid Hands’ curatorial fellowship programme at the gallery, so i am rly happy n glad to be writing about this show, and hope i've made it clear that I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!
read the text version here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/sheneceorethacubitt/
& as per, thank you to our friends on patreon for supporting the writing :)2022-05-0811 min
The White PubeChaotic Nightclub PhotosI'm off on one. This week's text is about the new Twitter account Chaotic Nightclub Photos. It's also about the wider genre and history of nightclub art as it has existed since the mid 1800s. It's also about paparazzi, Wolfgang Tillmans, memes, Tabloid Art History and Studio 54. As I said, I'm off on one. I hope you enjoy!!!
You can find the written version of this (with loads of pictures!!!) under the Misc. section of our website here: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/misc/2022-05-0131 min
The White PubePortrait of a Moving Image Artist in LondonThis week's text is something a bit different. It's not a review, it's not an essay, it's kind of just a story. So it makes me nervous, but here we are all the same.
I don’t want to give the game away, I don’t want to let you in on the big secret. But this is fiction… slightly, sort of. This isn’t real - oh, but it is. I don’t know what to tell you, you’re just going to have to believe me.
read the text here: https://thewhitepube.co.uk/art-though...2022-04-2445 min
The White PubeReview: OldThis week's review is on Old, M. Night Shyamalan's 2021 release about a supernatural beach. It appears the filmmaker has a track record of exploiting disability for horror in his films but I don't often watch films so I personally had no idea. This text is me working that out 💀
You can find the written version of this on The White Pube. Thanks for listening! And thank you especially to our Patreon/Ko-Fi/Paypal gang for supporting essays like this. 2022-04-1722 min
The White PubeWho doesn't have a praise kink?We’ve known each other since 2013 but now we know each other on quite frankly an unnecessary level after recording this episode lmao. Using a few decks courtesy of So Cards, we ask each other questions and end up discussing smoking, Zarina’s dream job, education reform, how our exes don’t exist, IBS in public, taxi drivers, becoming Jack Grealish, and of course, our shared praise kink.
You can find the transcription for today’s episode on thewhitepube.com/podcasts
sorry in advance for all the TMI
& you can find out more about So...2022-04-1550 min
The White PubeI'm HungryTW: discussion of disordered eating
This week's text is about hunger. I don't know what it means anymore and that scares me, but it's ok because it is aimless, empty.
Read the text version on the site: thewhitepube.com/misc/im-hungry/
and thank you! to everyone that supports us on Patreon, Ko-fi and Paypal!2022-04-1015 minThe White PubeLearning to CheatDo you ever... cheat? I don't. No, I would never. Or I wouldn't. But then something happened that meant I started to cheat all the time. This week's text is called Learning to Cheat! You can find the audio version on our website here BUT I have actually made this text into a video that you can watch here. It's something I've wanted to try for a while and this text felt like the right one to try it on. Let me know what you think!
Thank you to everyone that supports us on Patreon, Ko-fi and...2022-04-0314 min
The White PubeI ❤️ LondonThis week's text is a chunky art thought about the problems with London. Why is it so hard to be an artist, or an art worker, in London? Why is living in this city so fucking hard? What’s the problem with London, and WHY does it have a problem in the first place? WELL. I investigated. I spoke to: Haja Fanta, who works at HOME by Ronan Mckenzie; George Henry Longly and Prem Sahib, who run Ridley Road Project Space; Arman Nouri and Kwame Lowe, who work together as Kin Structures. I asked them a couple of questions, di...2022-03-2754 min
The White PubeI hate DishoomThis is 2nd episode in the our new series where we revisit the Big texts we wrote before we started this podcast! In this one, we revisit Zarina's 2020 text 'I hate Dishoom.' It caused... a ruckus online. How does she feel about it now? Was it even that deep? Did the owner of Dishoom get in touch and did they meet up to discuss it? Find out on the latest episode of the white pube podcast wooo & if you want the transcription for this episode, it's on our website here
thank you to our readers for...2022-03-2357 min
The White PubeReview: Beat SaberThis is a review of Beat Saber, a game I've been thinking about for years. It's a game I have only played once. When it was time, I sat down and wrote the review in one evening, which never, ever happens. But I just had to get this one off my chest, I think, and when I was ready, it was easy because all the words were already in my head.
You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/games
& thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping us in business.
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The White PubeREVIEW: Inventing AnnaThis week's text is a review of Inventing Anna, the newest Shondaland series about the Anna Delvey girlboss scam, on Netflix.
You can read the text version of this on thewhitepube.com/inventinganna
Thank you, as always, to our Patreon gang for supporting the writing and work! If you want to, you can support us on patreon.com/thewhitepube2022-03-1318 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 018: Tuğçe ÖzbiçerWe’re very happy to announce that the 18th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant is... Tuğçe Özbiçer! Tuğçe is a London-based Turkish journalist, writer and photographer from Istanbul. We found real care and value in her writing, which reaches from searing human rights-focused articles to softer texts that reflects on lyrics, home and love. Not only did we feel this in Tuğçe’s work, but so did a friend who emailed us to back her submission, writing that ’I’m constantly in awe of the way she writes in a language that is not even her own...2022-03-1107 min
The White PubeReview: Uncharted 4This week, I played the remastered Uncharted 4 that was released earlier this year as part of the Legacy of Thieves collection for PS5. It's a very cool game but that's exactly why I didn't like it. In this text, I write about how much I prefer embarrassment over coolness as a quality in the culture I spend time with. Written version on The White Pube! Thank you to our Patreons! I somehow forgot to mention the emoji summary in this recording so of course it's 🧗🥵😎. Happy Sunday everybody!!!2022-03-0613 min
The White PubeWhy museums are bad vibesNew series just dropped. We have been writing on The White Pube since 2015 but we only actually started this podcast at the end of 2020. There are a tonne of texts that we haven’t shared here. In this new series, we’ll be revisiting our old writing, reading it out and then discussing it. We’ll be chatting about whether or not we still agree with what we said. Does it make us cringe lol? If we were to write the same text now, what we would do differently? And of course, we’ll mention how the text was received...2022-03-0253 min
The White PubeREVIEW: She Keeps Me Damn Alive, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley @ ArebyteThis week's text is a review of SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE, a game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. This text is (tbh) less a review, more a document or journal entry of my experience playing through, a way for me to write through my feelings and hold on to the intensity of this game.
You can read the written version of this on our website here: thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/she-keeps-me-damn-alive/
You can watch Gab & Danielle's conversation here: gdlp.co.uk/posts/arebyte-interview/
You can support us on Patreon here: patreon.com/thewhitepube (& thank you t...2022-02-2728 min
The White PubeA review of Pokémon Legends: ArceusThis week's text is a review of the new Pokémon: Legends Arceus game. When the game came out, I literally sat down and played it for 5 days without moving, having the time of my life. But when it came to writing about it, I started to think about what I really want from a Pokémon game and how Arceus did and didn't match up.
Written version of this review is available on our website here :)
Thank you to our Patreon supporters :) love you
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The White PubeReview: Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, Jasleen Kaur @ TouchstonesThis week's text is a review of Gut Feelings Meri Jaan, a show at Touchstones by Jasleen Kaur and a group of collaborators from Rochdale.
The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/art-reviews/gutfeelingsmerijaan/
And as usual, thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting our weekly writing! Hope u all have a cute n happy Valentines weekend, here r some kisses from us, 2 u xxxxxx2022-02-1314 min
The White PubeReview: UnpackingThis week's review is on Unpacking, a small pixel art puzzle game about unpacking items into rooms, available now on Switch, Xbox, PC/Mac. And so, I... didn't love it. But this text is about how, actually, I don't even want to love everything I play. Do you know what I mean? Sometimes love is too much, sometimes I only want things to be fine.
The written version of this text is available on thewhitepube.com/games/unpacking
Thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting our weekly writing! 2022-02-0609 min
The White PubeOn Yearning: Period Dramas & Hot ✨Vibes✨This week's text is a Very Embarrassing essay about why i love period dramas & yearning. tl;dr, they've got Hot Vibes. and other things have those same vibe. And i think i'm toxic femininity. down catastrophically bad, send help.
You can read this text on thewhitepube.com/art-thoughts/perioddramas
Thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping us fed & watered & causing chaos. 2022-01-3014 min
The White PubeReview: Apex LegendsThis week's review on Apex Legends considers the narrative value of an elaborate first person shooter, or why I have just sunk 557 hours into a game that goes bang bang. I love it. This was the easiest review to write in the world, the most enjoyable. The only problem was it took me away from the game for a few hours. Okay, posting this review and then going back to where I belong, the world of Apex Legends.
The written version of this text is available here.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters for keeping t...2022-01-2319 min
The White PubeA Year of Long CovidWell, it's been a year. In today's episode, Gabrielle and Zarina sit down to talk about the impact Long Covid has had on Gabrielle's life, body, head, whole world. It's been a year of learning about the instability of chronic illness, trying to find stability through it, and failing over and over again. There is so much more to say on the matter but this is all the poison I could suck out of the wound for now.
You can find the transcription for this episode here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/year-of-long-covid
Thank you t...2022-01-1957 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 017: Rasha BarakaWe are excited to begin 2022 by announcing the 17th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant... 🥁... Rasha Baraka. In this episode, we introduce Rasha's work and she reads out two short pieces of her writing; Letter to my Coloniser & Jealousy.
Bio: Rasha Baraka is a freelance journalist and writer currently studying an MA in Culture Industry. She promotes, shares, and writes about a shape-shifting culture while striving to platform a plethora of voices and stories that are often underrepresented or marginalised in the media. She is currently working on a digital exhibition with a group of multidisciplinary art...2022-01-1710 min
The White PubeReview: Lubaina Himid @ Tate ModernIt's my (ZM) first text of the year! kicking off 2022 with a review of Lubaina Himid's show at Tate Modern. It's also a text about good art, magic, dreams & stories - a love letter for some paintings that transported me.
You can find the written version of this text here.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters and thank you to all our listeners here - catch u next time xoxoxox2022-01-1618 min
The White PubeI am addicted to a gameHappy new year! For our first episode back for 2022, I've written about the games I've been addicted to over the years, whilst wondering carefully if addiction is ever okay - ever helpful. Have you ever been addicted to a game? What did it mean to you at the time? You can find the written version of this text here.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters and thank you to all our listeners here. It's gonna be a good year, I am determined. 2022-01-0916 minThe White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 016: Molly GoughWe're ending the year by announcing the 16th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant... 🥁... Molly Gough. In this episode, we introduce Molly's work and she reads out two short pieces of her writing.
If you want the text versions, to look back at previous recipients, or to find out more about the grant, you can head here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/writersgrant :) See you in 2022 :)2021-12-1509 minThe White PubeBecoming A Disabled Game CriticThis week's text is a reflection on becoming disabled and how that has affected my writing. It's not what I want but maybe it's not all bad? And maybe thinking about good change instead of bad change all the time might help reframe what it means to be disabled (sometimes, for some people, like me).
This is the final text on The White Pube for 2021 as we are about to go on our December break. We're still working behind the scenes on things like launching our new website, but we'll be quieter as we see out the y...2021-11-2820 minThe White PubeInstitutions & IdentityThis text is an art thought essay about the museum as part of the Neoliberal political project, a re-write of our 2018 text 'the Problem with Representation'.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/institutions-identity
Thank you to our Patreon family for your support, and thanks to you for listening :) 2021-11-2022 minThe White PubeLove Letter to the Art WorldGabrielle writing about art again? Oh my god, the world must truly be ending. This week's text is a Love Letter to the Art World. It is a love letter but I'm pissed; a letter full of heartbreak about art and disability and the lack of imagination by mega funded art institutions. You can find the written version on thewhitepube.com where there is also a handwritten version too! Cute. I wasn't originally going to share this text tbh. It was commissioned by the young artists society in Oslo, Norway, who asked me what I would like to say...2021-11-1408 min
The White PubeWriters Grant 015: Polly ManningWe’re well into the second year of The Working Class Writers Grant now and we are thrilled to announce Recipient #015 is Polly Manning. Polly sent us two texts that both got me right in the gut in different painful ways. One was a quick, sharp stab and a gasp; the other was an uncomfortable hug from the behind that got tighter and tighter until I felt sad and sick. Acute, emotional, affecting and bleak. I read both texts back to back and I immediately wanted to read more - and that’s how I knew we’d found our nex...2021-11-1208 minThe White PubeReview: Sutapa Biswas @ Kettle's YardThis week's text is a review of Sutapa Biswas's show: Lumen at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge.
It's also a lil bit different to my normal texts, bc it's written as an audio tour. So you can listen to me guide you round in person, or listen on an imagined art date, IRL or art guided meditation.
read the text here: thewhitepube.com/sutapabiswas2021-11-0729 minThe White PubeReview: The Forgotten CityThis week’s review is The Forgotten City, a game about a place where nobody is allowed to sin or everybody will turn into gold statues - or so they say. It is a game I didn’t know was a horror game until I felt my body tremble. And that’s a good thing. I have really come to love this genre so much. So I’m sharing this review today in honour of Halloween. Maybe you’re looking for something to play or maybe you just want to hear its spooky tale, either way I hope you enjoy the...2021-10-3118 minThe White PubeReview: 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab SalehThis week's text on the White Pube is a review of 3 for 1 at Camden Art Centre: Adam Farah, Phoebe Collings-James & Zeinab Saleh.
tl;dr (& SPOILER): I think the decision to put on 3 separate solo shows, in the space that'd normally contain 1 solo show, at the same time is racialised.
Read it here: thewhitepube.com/3for1camdenart2021-10-2415 minThe White PubeReview: BLACKTRANSSEAThis week's review is on BLACKTRANSSEA, the new game by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley. It is currently on show at QUAD in Derby as part of Danielle's first solo exhibition. If you can't get to Derby, like me, then the game is available to play online at blacktranssea.com. This review is about writing to remember, colonisation, mother nature, games in exhibitions, and new endings for us all.
The written version is available here + as always, thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting The White Pube I love you
Thanks for listening 2021-10-1714 minThe White PubeReview: Turner Prize 2021, Bumper PackThis week's text is a review of the 2021 Turner Prize! We've never reviewed the Turner Prize before, and i don't know why?!? it's such a Moment™️. But this year, there has been so much noise about all the nominees being collectives, and I went up to the Herbert on a press trip to go have a look round with the rest of the press pack - felt like i literally HAD to review it lmao. SO here it is, a long chunky extended cut: mini reviews of the work being presented, as well as a run down of the wide...2021-10-1036 minThe White PubeReview: Kena: Bridge of SpiritsThis week’s review is Kena: Bridge of Spirits, the recently released game from Ember Lab about a young spirit guide who helps troubled spirits move on. It looks great, gameplay is solid, but the story just did not land. For people who want a big combat challenge, go for it. But for those who play games searching for magical, dramatic stories, I don’t know if this one quite works.
Written version: thewhitepube.com/kena-bridge-of-spirits
Thank you to our Patreon fam for supporting the weekly writing on The White Pube
&&& thank you to E...2021-10-0315 minThe White PubeREVIEW: Manifesto, Ane Hjort GuttuThis week's text on The White Pube, is a review of a film! Manifesto, by Ane Hjort Guttu, which is aw a few weeks ago at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival. This text is also a cheeky excuse to think a bit about art schools, and especially, my time at CSM (which is quite a while ago now bc i am literally geriatric).
You can read the review here: thewhitepube.com/manifesto-anehjortguttu
The only reason The White Pube can still exist is because some of our readers choose to support us each month on Patreon...2021-09-2620 minThe White PubeReview: No Longer HomeThis week's review is No Longer Home, a small game about two people who have just finished an art degree and are now getting ready to pack up their flat and leave London. Now, I KNOW this premise is relatable for at least 50% of our audience, lmao, I see the google analytics and I know. But if it's not, this text is mostly just about remembering the weird things that happen in our lives, and trying to answer the question, 'what form should remembering take?' This game is available on Mac and PC currently but is about to b...2021-09-1911 min
The White PubeWriters Grant 013: Andy Grace HayesWe’re entering the SECOND year of The White Pube Writers Grant if you can believe it. We are very pleased to announce that the 13th recipient is fellow art critic Andy Grace Hayes. Writing from Glasgow, his substack Another Gay Handout brings together exhibition reviews, book reviews, and essays on aesthetics and the climate. We haven’t been able to run around Scotland’s many different art scenes in a long, long time but reading Andy’s reviews felt like the light, piercing criticism and gossip that comes of visiting exhibitions with clever friends. We very much support that, an...2021-09-1617 minThe White Pubethis exhibition doesn't existThis week's text is a review of an exhibition that doesn't exist.
'Gab suggested I write a review of a fictional exhibition, one that doesn’t actually exist. And the idea grabbed me, because in writing about something that doesn’t exist, I thought I could burrow through and write about something that should.'
read the text here: thewhitepube.com/doesnt-exist2021-09-1215 minThe White PubeReview: Red Dead Redemption 2This week’s review is Red Dead Redemption 2, the 2018 game from Rockstar. I think about escaping into fiction and creating fiction as a way to escape. Part fan-fiction, part review. Part player, part creator. The text is spoiler-free so if you haven’t ever played the game (or maybe especially if you happen to be halfway through), I hope you enjoy listening.
You can find the written version here & thank you to our Patreon gang for all of your support. It really means the world.2021-09-0521 minThe White PubeReview! Ain Bailey: Version @ Wysing Arts CentreThis week's text on The White Pube is a review of Ain Bailey's show, Version, at Wysing Arts Centre over in Cambridge. In this review, I think about about generosity, overlap, and liquid, as well as ~vibey~ descriptions of sound works.
You can read the text version of this here: thewhitepube.com/ain-version
The White Pube is proud to be reader supported on Patreon! If you would like more info about why or how, or even to chip in with the support and sign up to become our patron like in olden times, you can do...2021-08-2910 minThe White PubeReview: Love Island Season 7This week's text is about the fact I've got the ick for Love Island itself. Season 7 has been rough but the roughness didn't begin here. I'm done with this show. I can't be dealing.
Listen on this podcast or find the written version on The White Pube here. Thank you to our Patreon supporters for enabling this very specifically mad kind of writing. We love you a lot. 2021-08-2227 minThe White PubeReview: Marble Arch MoundHappy Sunday! This week's text on the White Pube is a review of the London spectacle dubbed 'a £2million SLAG HEAP'!!! it's: Marble Arch Mound!!!
This is also a text where i talk about public art after 11 years of consecutive Conservative governments, increasing reliance on private funding, and the wider corporatisation of the arts. i try to be an alien archaeologist from the future, and ask: if the Marble Arch Mound is a monument, what is it a monument to? and what does it tell us about the culture and people that made it?
if yo...2021-08-1519 minThe White PubeReview: The Real Housewives of Beverly HillsI watched all 11 seasons of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and now this funny little review exists. It's a text about chronic illness, reality TV, and finding relief in other people's issues. Hope you enjoy! The written version of this text is available on our website here > https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/rhobh < >2021-08-0823 minThe White PubeReview: a rant! a reel! Camara Taylor @ CubittThis week's text is a review! of Camara Taylor's at Cubitt. It's the third show in Languid Hands' ongoing curatorial fellowship program, called .
You can read the text version of this review here: thewhitepube.com/arant-areel
Coinciding with this show,, Camara is also premiering a film, , online at Edinburgh Art Festival. It's available until 29th August.
'As entry to the exhibition is free, and many of us have a renewed commitment to mutual aid, we ask those that are able to donate any amount, big or small, to Glasgow-based MORE (Mi...2021-08-0111 minThe White PubeReview: 54 The Gate, Arcadia Missa Open Office (or: Critics Just Wana Have Fun)This week's text is a review of 54 The Gate, an online show that is also a game, on Arcadia Missa's Open Office. it is also a text about how i just want art to be FUN, and why i think that's important, n worth considering when making an exhibition - especially right now!
you can read the text here: thewhitepube.com/54thegate2021-07-2511 minThe White PubeReview: We Dwell in PossibilityThis week’s review is 'We Dwell in Possibility,' the new game by Robert Yang and Eleanor Davis commissioned for this year’s Manchester International Festival. I write about pandemic horniness, public sex, Hieronymus Bosch and lockdown lifting. Not suitable for younger listeners.
You can find the written version of this review here; and you can play the game for free here.
Thank you for listening & thank you to our Patreon gang for supporting!!! 🌸 2021-07-1810 min
The White PubeWriters Grant 011: DORA MALUDIAnnouncing the 11th recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant: Dora Maludi!
Dora sent over a collection of poems, and they really stood out and grabbed us. Dora’s poems are like small concentrated squares full of infinite detail. She writes about writing; the writing process like vomiting. She describes scars like borders. She writes like she is speaking to someone over your shoulder. And she summons whole scenes out of sketches to create these acute and honest atmospheres. We’re so glad we can support Dora through this grant, and we hope you find a similar joy...2021-07-1309 minThe White PubeReview: Ghost of TsushimaThis week's review is Ghost of Tsushima, the 2020 video game about a Mongol invasion on the island of Tsushima set in the 13th century. Did I like it? Did I dislike it? The answer is no to both of those questions and I spend this text trying to figure out why. I also wonder: what does it mean when a violent story is just so beautiful? Can you be afraid of a villain you do not know? And how do you fight for something you don't quite care about?
The written version of this text can be...2021-07-1112 minThe White PubeDeath Stranding: The Final WalkThis week’s text is about the final walk in Death Stranding, the 2019 game by Kojima Productions. Back in November, I wrote a spoiler-free review that convinced a tonne of you to play it. Somebody even bought a whole PS4 off the back of that text. I return to the game now to write about its ending and to think about how emotion is achieved through narrative structure, character development, song, gameplay and loss of control. This text is chunky. I have not held back in any way. It took weeks to put together and it is the longest th...2021-07-0439 minThe White PubeReview: Cooking Sections @ Tate BritainThis week's text is a review of ~Salmon: A Red Herring~, the Art Now show by Cooking Sections, at Tate Britain.
Talking about my split feelings; between being a hardline cynic and wanting to be a Good Vibes Person, n how i liked this show against my will.
Read the text here: thewhitepube.com/cookingsections2021-06-2608 min
The White PubeBoycott ZabludowiczThis week's text is an essay called: Boycott Zabludowicz.
Since 2014, there has been a call to boycott the Zabludowicz Collection, a gallery in London that is owned and funded by Zabludowicz Art Trust, and its associated institutions: Daata Editions and Times Square Space. The Zabludowicz Art Trust is financially associated with companies that have dealt arms to Israel's military, invested in property in Occupied Palestine, and that provide maintenance and services to the Israeli Airforce.
In this essay, I tell you why the boycott exists, why it is important and impactful, I tell you how t...2021-06-2048 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 010: NATALIE DUNNINGWe’re so pleased to announce, the 10th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Dunning. This feels like a really special and emotional moment, not just because this is the 10th grant to go out(!), but because I feel such an affinity with Natalie’s writing. Her text ‘Why I sometimes like my chronic pain’ made me reflect on my relationship with long covid — something I am struggling with, but something that means I no longer sweat the small stuff precisely because of that struggle. Another text, ‘Hiking the uncanny valleys of Red Dead Redemption 2,’ made me fall i...2021-06-1414 minThe White PubeReview: Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakamithis week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mieko Kawakami's Breasts and Eggs!
read the text here2021-06-1312 minThe White PubeReview: The Last of Us Part IIThis week I've written about The Last of Us Part II and doing things in video games you don't want to do. I don't know if this is necessarily a review, it's more just a text about the thing. Trying out something newwww. As always, the written version of this is on our website: thewhitepube.com/the-last-of-us & thank you very much for listening.2021-06-0617 minThe White PubeReview: Walter Price, Pearl Lines @ Camden Art CentreThis week's text is a review! of Walter Price's show, Pearl Lines at Camden Art Centre. This is the first show I've seen in person since last Autumn, and honestly i spent the last half of this text trying to figure out why galleries feel weird now.
You can read the text here, and peep some pics of it too. enjoy the rest of ur sunday n the long weekend! 2021-05-3007 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 009: NATALIE TANWe’re so pleased to announce, the 9th recipient of the Writers Grant has been given to Natalie Tan. Natalie has a bi-weekly newsletter called Simmer Down, that reflects on food and memory, and she sent us some back issues (links below). After we started the /food page on our website last year, we've been hoping to be able to support somebody else's writing around the subject & then Natalie’s work came along. It is so sensitive, descriptive, atmospheric and personable. The writing feels all visibly based in the political and the historical too, which we found incredible value and...2021-05-1717 minThe White PubeA text about The Anxiety-Free Cruise by My Brother, My Brother and MeA bit of a different one this week: I have written about the podcast I fall asleep to every night. It's Episode #328 of 'My Brother, My Brother and Me,' titled 'The Anxiety-Free Cruise.' I write about sleep, imagination, tabletop games, and joy.
You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/mbmbam
Thank you to the Patreon gang for your ongoing support and love.2021-05-1618 minThe White PubeReview: Tales from the Silk Road, Baesianz & Nowness AsiaThis week's text is a review!
I'll be chatting about Tales from the Silk Road, a cluster of films curated by Baesianz, and hosted on Nowness Asia.
At the time of writing, there are 3 films up: Inside Out, by Sarah Khan / Wake Island: Last Ruins, directed by Mohamad Abdouni / Reality Fragment 160921, by Qigemu.
While i talk about the films briefly, this is more a text to ease back in to talking about institutions, and how they affect the way we articulate a new and tentative collective identity.
Read the full text he...2021-05-0910 minThe White PubeReview: the parkAt 7.30 on Wednesdays, a Labrador Club meets up on the main field. If I time it right, which I usually do, on Wednesday mornings I run through a sea of labradors; fat, young, long haired, golden blonde, chocolate, black, grey around the whiskers. They sniff up at me, follow me up the hill and round the fields. Their ears flap as they gallop alongside me, bodies lurching in time with the slap of my feet hitting the tarmac.
This week’s text is a cute lil bit of writing about bodies, the park, and the weirdness that is...2021-05-0211 minThe White PubeReview: Fall GuysThis week's review is Fall Guys, the 2020 platform battle royale that went viral last summer. It's taken me a long time to write about it but I'm glad I waited til now! I won my first game 2 days ago and it clicked the review into place -- I use this text to talk about my absolute deep love of obstacle courses, Takeshi's Castle, and what it's like to win a survival of the fittest game as a sick person.
You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/fall-guys
:)2021-04-2521 minThe White PubeThe Long COVID EpisodeWe haven't recorded a chatty episode in literal months, so we have a quick catch up on what we've been doing since we last spoke to you - and then we just get into it. This is the Long COVID Episode. Gab got COVID as soon as 2021 struck, and it just hasn't gone. It's long COVID now and the number of symptoms have doubled. We talk through everything, we have a cry, and we sit in that puddle together.
The transcription for this episode is available here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/the-long-covid-episode (written b...2021-04-221h 00The White PubeReview: The Dancing Face by Mike Phillipsthis week's text is a book review (!!!) of Mike Phillips' The Dancing Face. Originally published in the 90s, it has been republished this year, as part of a 6-book series selected by Bernadine Evaristo, called Black Britain: Writing Back.
read the full text: thewhitepube.com/thedancingface2021-04-1812 min
The White PubeWriters Grant Recipient 008: ORNA KAZIMITime flies, we’re now on the 8th recipient of the Writers Grant, and we are so happy to announce it has been given to Orna Kazimi. Orna sent us a short publication, called Catfish (which you can read below). We haven’t had the chance to support many Artists (with a capital A), but we were really excited by Orna’s approach to writing as a component in a wider visual practice, and we identified with it too. Catfish is sensitive and lucid. We love the way it presents complexity, memory, the spatial weirdness of navigating embodied states, its nu...2021-04-1417 minThe White PubeReview: MundaunSpoiler-free review of the best game I've played in literally months, and the first horror game I've ever played. I shouted out loud on my own at one point because I got so scared and somehow I'm still recommending you play it for yourselves. Mundaun was created by Hidden Field (Michel Ziegler) and published by MWM Interactive last month. You can find the written version of this review on the white pube dot com as per uzj. Hope you are all good! We'll be back with the /real/ podcast very soon. Long covid is long, my apologies. 2021-04-1111 minThe White PubeCan White People Ever Be Radical?this week’s text is a cute lil art thought! the title is not clickbait, it is genuinely the question I am asking: thinking around Beeple & NFTs, but also just like... everything.
read the full text: thewhitepube.co.uk/canwhitepeopleberadical2021-04-0412 minThe White PubeReview: Clawee, the remote claw machine appFor this week's review, I played on a live claw machine remotely and... I hated it. Not good, not cool, not fun at all. And also potentially dangerous for people prone to compulsive spending. Yeah, I would steer clear.
You can find the written version of this text at thewhitepube.com/clawee2021-03-2821 minThe White PubeReview: Maquettehappy Sunday the gang, I think this is my favourite game review I've ever written and I hope you enjoy it even if you don't play games. It's about Maquette, the newly released title by Graceful Decay and published by Annapurna. I write about love, needing help, and my world inside a pearl.
You can find the written version of this on thewhitepube.com/maquette
:) have a lovely day.2021-03-2114 minThe White PubeReview: NUTSHi podcast gang, I've been off sick with covid/long covid but I've been able to record audio for some recent reviews + uploading em now!
This is a review of NUTS, the game in which you play a researcher collecting data on squirrels. Unfortunately, it broke before my eyes. But was still nice to see squirrels I guess? You can find the written version of this text here on our website: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/nuts2021-03-1810 minThe White PubeReview: Calicohi gang, it's gab. Sorry for the absence. I have been out of action because covid, and now I've got long covid, but my voice is finally strong enough that I can record the reviews I've been publishing over the past few months.
This is a review of the video game Calico in which you have a cat cafe and you can pick up horses. It's magic and calm and I wish it had been 10x longer. Please make a DLC specifically for me. Thanks. The written version of this text, which was originally...2021-03-1810 minThe White PubeReview: Art SqoolHellooooo podcast listeners, it's gab. long time no speak! Sorry for the absence. I have been out of action because covid, and now I've got long covid, but my voice is finally strong enough that I can record the reviews I've been publishing over the past few months.
This review of Art Sqool was originally published March 7th, writing about the 2019 game I thought would allow me to feel the big stretch of the art school experience once again. Unfortunately, it did not deliver. The written version of this text is on our website h...2021-03-1810 minThe White PubeReview: Run! BTSPosting this week's review here, while the podcast is on hold for a bit. So, in case you missed it, here it is on PODCAST PLATFORMS TOO This week's text is a review of Run! BTS, the variety show webseries from SOUTH KOREAN BOY BAND, INTERNATIONAL STARS, WORLDWIDE SENSATIONS.... BTS!
The text version of this is on our website here
& here's a video of me reading on IGTV too.
Hope you enjoy it, and if this review makes you wana watch it too, I've left links to my top 3 episodes in the lil...2021-01-2911 minThe White PubeReview: Death StrandingWe're going to start posting reviews here in between the big podcasts we do, hope you enjoy! This week's review is Death Stranding, the 2019 video game by Hideo Kojima that has completely changed the way I feel about the people in my life, the year we're facing, and the medium of gaming as a whole. I have written a spoiler-free review in an effort to bring other people to the game because I hope it can help you in the same way it has helped me: I'm left more prepared to face the challenge of 2020, and more able to...2020-11-3022 minThe White PubeEverything you need to know about fundingHello allies and frenemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This time you don’t just have to put up with us telling stories and making each other laugh - this episode is actually USEFUL, thank GOD. It is the funding episode! And for it, we are joined by Anna Hart who is going to talk us through everything you need to know about (arts) funding (in the UK). When we were students paying 9 grand a year, CSM decided to allow us one teeny tiny lesson about art funding, and there were limited sp...2020-11-241h 12The White PubeKardashians & KottagecoreHello cowards and abominable entities, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This episode of our podcast is, quite frankly, a continuation of last episode's mild chaos. We talk about reality TV: why we loved it, what we can't stand now we're in pandemic-lockdown, and what we'd do if we were mind-bogglingly rich. We chat about That Tweet about Kim Kardashian's birthday, and why being a millionaire is FUCKING DESGOSTENG, but also, for some unknown reason, Gab tells us a story about how her driving test was terminated for dangerous driving!? it's funny, that's...2020-11-111h 05The White PubeThe culture that saved us in lockdownHello friends & enemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This second episode of our much-lauded podcast is a lil lockdown special where we chat about the bits o' ~culture~ that've been getting us through the hellscape that is 2020. We chat about Gab's freaky psychic connection with the radio, (romantically speaking) why Zarina loves period dramas, and like... maybe some actual book recommendations are in there. But tbh it's mostly chaos? A lot of wheezy laughing away from the microphone, and tryna hold in an enormous honking snort laugh while Gab tells a story...2020-10-271h 03
The White PubeThe White Pube Origin StoryHello friends and cowards, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. We used to have a podcast once upon a time when we were in university together and it was easy enough to start recording the conversations we were already having, and on the occasion of our FIFTH birthday wtf we are bringing it back. We start this new era of lockdown podcasting with the full origin story of how we came to begin our little website and why, again wtf, five years later it is still our actual job. Covering uni, values, audiences...2020-10-081h 41