#parallel visions

Chris Shape & Su Eko

Nada

Parallel Visions

First off, that sounds awesome. 

Second … I’m not sure. There’s The Badger Knight by Kathryn Erskine; we haven’t read this book so can’t vouch for its quality or the badassery of the MC, but the description talks about an “epic journey” and there seems to be warfare and a lot of running around medieval England, so it may suit your needs?

Parallel Visions by Cheryl Rainfield–again, haven’t read, can’t vouch!–features a heroine who gets visions of the future during asthma attacks. An Amazon review by someone with asthma praises the realism in how these attacks are described. 

The only other titles I know of are realistic. There may be adult titles out there, but as we only handle MG and YA, I don’t know of any personally.

Dean Blunt

Urban

NTS presents Parallel Visions

ICA

2014

NTS presents PARALLEL VISIONS at the ICA, London

Last night my eyes and ears were (rather unexpectedly) treated to a multi-dimensional performance of live music and installation art at the Institute of Contemporary Art - courtesy of East London’s finest music platform and radio station, NTS.

Entitled "Parallel Visions", the evening was the first in a series of experimental and interdisciplinary events throughout 2014, endeavoring to explore the space between contemporary music and performance art.

The event took place inside the ICA’s main exhibition space in a large reflective, silver-lined room (inspired by late pop artist, Richard Hamilton’s 1974 painting, “Palindrome” - also somewhat resembling Andy Warhol's famous silver-lined factory) where producer and curator for the evening, Trevor Jackson directed a dynamic programme of live performances from musicians including Tom Furse of The Horrors and enigmatic South-London beat-maker, Dave I.D.

Audience members gazed-on in awe as each act performed a dark and brooding, hour long set, to complement the intergalactic setting, penetrating speaker system, and enticing strobe lighting, which illuminated the space and heightened all our senses.

The series will comprise six evenings in total, spread out across the year, with each evening informed by an NTS host’s “individual taste and unique approach” to music and performance. Read more via the ICA website, and keep checking the NTS events page for future dates.

The late Richard Hamilton is currently being honored in a retrospective exhibition at the Tate Modern until the 26th May, 2014. Read more about the exhibition and the show's curator, Mark Godfrey, at Phaidon.

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