In his second round-up, EWAN CAMERON picks excellent solo shows that deal with Scottishness, Englishness and race as highlights
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‘The US has reached a tipping point’
JOHN GREEN appreciates the clarity with which a GDR-born photographer observes the ‘post-competitive cannibalism’ of the contemporary US
Los Angeles, CA, 2019
[Michael Dressell] 
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
MATTHEW HAWKINS is mesmerised by a performance that dissolves the line between audience and performer
MATTHEW SHARPE recommends the essays of a Renaissance politician that instruct and unnerve after 400 years
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes the reissue of a seminal work of revolutionary theory that have genuine relevance in the current context
RON JACOBS rides shotgun with a member of Black Bloc on the wave of anti-capitalist protests of the 1990s and early 2000s
The End is Near, Here
Michael Dressell, Hartmann Books, £35
HELL has reserved a ringside seat for Michael Dressel.
He seeks out places that most of never see, and he always has his camera with him to photograph the damned as they struggle through their daily lives.
His camera captures provocative images in Europe, Africa and Asia, but these do not show the disturbing chaotic power of the 21st century US hellscape in which we are drifting towards our destruction.
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