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Greta Bellamacina - Living room mirror
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An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
Living room mirror
Greta Bellamacina
Don’t look at yourself like you're a criminal
it's too glamorous, this house is Godless.
Our child hasn’t learnt his knees
or the broken dreams of the Internet.
There is only our unprescipted love, not even a word yet
but for you it’s Modernism.
I have taken out my arms made them into curtains
the same ones you wrote about
tied up with red ribbons before you came and made me a woman.
Before the dream of lying and breaking girls
the same ones, which makes morning night
and pours anonymous creaks.
Retirement seems too cheap now
contact mussels and special love makes me late now
all related, all eternal like the space under our bed
and the creations of the reborn.
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