The White Pube
By Gabrielle and Zarina
Creating Identity Charms
I have good news!!!!!! this week's text is about midodrine, Chile and the artist Phoebe Kaniewska. listen to hear the good news woooo or read about it on our website here. Sign up to our Patreon to join the discord if you want also. I hate all other social media except the white pube discord. there, I said it.
Lapvona
spoiler free text about Lapvona and a clinical trial I did this week and reading books all the way to the end even when you don't love them. Find the written version on our website here ; sign up to our Patreon here to join our discord; and please buy our book Poor Artists! it's out in hardback, audiobook and ebook!! paperback aint til October baby
The Hearing Test
I write about the app called Visible that is supposed to help you with energy-limiting health conditions, and I write about Eliza Barry Callahan's 2024 book The Hearing Test. You can find the written version here, our Patreon here, and here's a referral code to the app. I have no idea if it's worth it yet. In the first few weeks yes? But ask me again in 6 months
Mary and the Rabbit Dream
did you know all the long covid clinics in the UK were closing down in March? in this episode, I write about money and my PIP disaster and my last long covid clinic appointment, but I also write about a woman who gives birth to rabbits. You can find the text version on our website & you can get a copy of Mary and the Rabbit Dream on Galley Beggar's website 🐇
London Art Fair
I went to London and back in a day and now my body is paying for it. A text about London Art Fair -> written version here -> give us £1 a month here -> and I'll see you on the next one
Grey Unpleasant Land: Sophia Al-Maria and Lydia Ourahmane @ Spike Island
A story about an exhibition about nationhood, national mythologies, property & inheritance.
Read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/grey-unpleasant-land
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Woman on the Edge of Time
Kicking off the 2025 reviews with a book I think I might love: the 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time by American writer and activist Marge Piercy. You can find the written version of this on our website, you can support The White Pube here, and I'll see ya on the next one babYyyyy
DAHOMEY (dir. Mati Diop)
This week's text is a review of Mati Diop's DAHOMEY, now streaming on MUBI! Thinking through restitution as a starting point, the voice of objects, statues that also die, honest endings.
Read the text here: thewhitepube.co.uk/dahomey
If you'd like to watch DAHOMEY and make up your own mind, then MUBI have given us 30 days free: mubi.com/thewhitepube
This is our last text of the year!! Merry xmas and catch u in 2025 xxxxx
Should museums give back stolen objects?
Should museums give back stolen objects?? Dahomey is OUT TODAY on MUBI -- directed by Mati Diop, it's a film about the restitution of objects in Western museums. We spoke to Dan Hicks and Sumaya Kassim for a special investigative episode about restitution and decolonisation. MUBI have sponsored this episode and also !! given us a link to get 30 days free, so you can watch Dahomey. you can also watch all the other vvv good and interesting films on their roster -- lovely timing, there's your xmas watchlist sorted.
Find the transcription for this episode here; Dan's website here; Sumaya's here; and Sumaya's piece The museum will not be decolonised here
the Sound Voice Project @ the Royal Opera House
This week's text is about the Sound Voice Project at the Royal Opera House, down in the Lindbury Theatre. Three performances of works about voice loss.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/sound-voice
The Sound Voice project's run at ROH has ended, but the old event link is here, and the digital version of the programme. SVP's website is here.
The Crab Museum
I wrote this in ONE day do NOT judge me. Written version of the review is here. Our book Poor Artists is out now! in shops and in libraries and some people are just carrying it with them like a cool accessory. Get yours now !
The Substance
you lot LOVE a film review so you're in luck because I haven't read a book in a month and the only game I'm playing is Overwatch competitive mode and no one wants to hear about that. Here's a review of the new body horror film The Substance dir by Coralie Fargeat. You can find the text version of this on our website here & thank you for making the release of Poor Artists such a party!!!
A Study of Saint Francis, Ellie Cotton @ General Assembly
This week's text is about A Study of Saint Francis, an exhibition of paintings by Ellie Cotton at General Assembly. I saw a painting that i couldn't stop looking at!!
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/saint-francis
& IF U HAVEN'T HEARD! our book, Poor Artists, is out now !!!
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the dentist
I forgot to say: PLEASE COMMENT A TOOTH emoji on our instagram if you pass through here. my BRAIN IS FRIED. text version here
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October 3rd is fast approaching so the FINAL reminder: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US).
& thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. AHHHH
Dream Machines (a lecture by Rebecca Moss)
This week's text is a review of *Dream Machines*, a lecture by Rebecca Moss, about movement, machines, industrialisation, automation, Dada and Surrealism. All delivered on the swan pedalos at Stratford Olympic Park.
read the text here: thewhitepube.co.uk/dream-machines
October 3rd is fast approaching so yet another reminder: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US).
& thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. mwah mwah bye!
Prima Facie (and a giveaway!)
To celebrate the return of Prima Facie to cinemas from September 12-Dec 5, we have two tickets and a bunch of merchandise to give away to one person who comments a judge emoji on today's Instagram post 👩⚖️🧑⚖️👨⚖️ If you missed Prima Facie the first time it was in cinemas, or maybe you want to see it again because it is so good?, leave ya comment below for a chance to win two tickets to see it at any of the 700 locations it’ll be playing in, PLUS a hoodie, PLUS a badge, PLUS a signed play text. We’re also re-posting our Prima Facie review from 2022 for you to read on the white pube website/listen on our podcast. I really think Jodie Comer is the actress of our generation lmao. I said it then and I’m glad I get to say it again. See you in the comments and thank you to the lovely people at National Theatre Live for putting Prima Facie back on the big screen. I can probably count on one hand the amount of times we have done adverts so I hope you trust I back this completely!!
T&C's: The winner, who will receive one Prima Facie goody bag and 2x cinema tickets, will be picked at random on 10th September and contacted by DM. If we don’t receive a reply within 24 hours another winner will be chosen. One entry per person. Open to UK residents only. Prize is non-transferrable.
The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name, Noorain Inam
This is a text about a specific painting: The Unbearable Lightness of Forgetting My Name by Noorain Inam, that I saw a couple months back at Noorain's solo show, Go back to sleep, it’s just the wind at Indigo + Madder. It's also a text about painting and imagining, your mind's eye and clarity, about feeling like things are over there but then also within you.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/noorain-inam-TULOFMN
& if u don't know, now u know: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US).
Thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE BANK HOL!!! love u! xxxx
Laisul Hoque, The Purpose was to Document the Other Side (2023)
watching a film about distance and love in a week like this week!
read the text on the website: thewhitepube.co.uk/laisul-otherside
& FYI, CHEEKY PLUG: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US).
Thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
Severance
a review! I'm sick! what's new. you can find the written version of this on our website; you can pre-order our book here; pat yourself on the back for making it through another week on this hellplanet
Work!?
thinking about Serban Savu's 'what work is' Romanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale
read the text here: thewhitepube.com/work
WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US). Thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
Strand News: LOTTERY OYSTER OFF LICENCE
This week's text is a mini review of a group show in Strand News, the newsagent where i buy a peanut butter kit kat chunky almost every weekday. Ft work by: Athen Kardashian and Nina Mhach Durban, Eden Chau-Morrow, Marcus Jefferson and Xooset, and curated by Tom Mouna.
read the text here: thewhitepube.com/strand-news
WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US). Thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
Parable of the Sower
I'm tired!!!!! you know the deal. the written version of this text is on our website.
Tai Shani @ The Cosmic House
a vignette about looking through windows, a love letter to the shrimp in Tai Shani's THE WORLD TO ME WAS A SECRET: CAESIOUS, ZINNOBER, CELADON, AND VIRESCENT @ the cosmic house
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/taishani-cosmichouse
WHILE I AM HERE: you can pre-order our book, Poor Artists, here (& here if ur in the US). Thank you to our friends & supporters on Patreon -- if you'd like to support our work, pls see our support page for all the many ways u can do that. & HAVE A NICE SUNDAY!!! love u! xxxx
I went to the LJMU Degree Show
text version of this review here; our boat is going to be uploaded here; book cover reveal here!!!
Unreal Estate
This week's text is about houses, art and lying to estate agents. Read it here (thewhitepube.com/unreal-estate).
You can support our work on Patreon, & thank you to all our patrons!
The Hologram
I have been writing about problems for a while so I think it is time to talk about solutions. This episode is about a project by Cassie Thornton that is about to make my life better. You can find the text version here, the Hologram here, our book pre-order link here if you're in the UK and here if you're in the US 🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️🌡️
Goldsmiths 4 Palestine 4eva
A text about the student occupation of Goldsmiths, for Palestine.
As mentioned, some links:
- STRIKE OUTSET, sign the pledge here, FAQs
Here's a link to the text, scroll down to the bottom if you want links to any of the student orgs for the unis mentioned at the end -- they're all linked & i'll whack those up on ig stories when i post this too (we are @thewhitepube) if you want more un to date info.
I ran away to Spain
If you want to see the written version of this, or the photos I took while I was running away, find both here; if you want to support twp and join our discord, info here; and if you want us to be on a best seller list because that would be quite funny, pre-order our book Poor Artists here 💋
Caterpillar Memories
This week's text is a story about a woman called Jane who wants to unlock her inner creative potential, through a boozy painting workshop.
read the text version here: thewhitepube.co.uk/caterpillar-memories
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I went on a residency in France
I've secretly been in France trying out a new residency at a place called The Mill. You can find the written version of this text on our website where there are also beautiful pictures I took because I am the world's greatest photographer enjoy, and as always, pre-order our book POOR ARTISTS if you want! it's coming out October 3rd so if you do it now you'll forget and then a lovely present will come through the door and you'll be like wow I'm so nice to myself
THE RISE OF CREATIVE INDUSTRY GROUP INCORPORATED
This week's text is some art criticism as dystopian business science fiction
When did that transition from *Art* to *Creative Industry happen*, and what does it mean? Robert Peston VII, Business Culture Editor-at-Large for the Financial Times 4.0, is about to tell you!
read the text version here: thewhitepube.co.uk/creating-incorporated
& thank you, as always, to our friends on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to our support page for more info about how you can do that :)
It is as if you were doing work
Happy Easter I bet all of you are off work today you lazy gits!!!! this text is about WORKING ALL THE TIME and feeling CRAZY because of it. You can find the text version here and you can pre-order our book Poor Artists here and I hope you enjoy a day off work you really deserve it
Overnight At The Museum
A story about a sleepover at the National Gallery, in pursuit of answers to a question: what is the POINT of ART?!
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/reviews/2024/overnight-museum
& thank you, as always, to our friends on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to our support page for more info about how you can do that :)
Diversity Policy 101
A text where I write about why I no longer want to write about Diversity. The history of institutional diversity policy, the historry of it's failings, but also -- my speculations about its future.
read it here: thewhitepube.co.uk/divpol101
& thank you, as always, to our friends on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work/writing, pls go to our support page for more info about how you can do that :)
I tried a floatation tank
For real! The written version of the review is here; our book Poor Artists is available to pre-order here. mwah mwah mwah goodbye