This week's text is a review! 
The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences, a film by Nadim Choufi for Jameel Arts Centre's Art Jameel Digital Commissions. 
very long complex intro, but only a diddy tight text; enjoy!

read the text: thewhitepube.com/nadimchoufi

Nadim Choufi @ Jameel Arts Centre

We’re onto the 7th recipient of the Writers Grant and we are so happy to announce it has been given to Cameron Hill. I was already aware of Cameron’s writing because of his game review of Dear Esther that was published in Heterotopias last year. I hadn’t seen anyone handle writing around a game in that way before - so careful, visual, paced and layered. Just starting to write about games myself, I felt very inspired and excited by his approach. It’s great to now be able to pay that forward & we thank Creative Debuts for funding the grant and allowing us to support working class writers in this way :) 

Cameron Hill is a writer from the North East of England. Having recently finished a research Masters on the woodland-based poetry of John Clare and other nineteenth-century working class writers, he now writes on environmental and societal issues through popular culture, with a focus on film. Alongside this, he is currently working on a non-linear text-based game, as well as a collaborative photo-essay book about the River Esk, with friend and photographer George Hutton. His work is shaped by growing up between woodland, sea and industrial decay, and FKA Twigs’s live performance for Valentino. 

You can find links to Cameron’s writing on our website now [thewhitepube.com/writersgrant] including his new substack for ‘essays on the climate, the cinema and us’ go subscribe!!!

Writers Grant Recipient 007: CAMERON HILL

a sneaky Monday upload because after a few months of not being able to speak without wheezing, never mind record a review, I just tried recording this one and it worked!!! fuck you covid I am recovering get the stun

this is a review of Art Sqool, the 2019 game that I thought would allow me to feel the big stretch of the art school experience I have been lucky to know. unfortunately, it did not deliver.

Review: Art Sqool

don’t mind me, just backdating some reviews because I have been too unwell to record audio versions - - - 

This is a review of NUTS, the recently released game in which you play a researcher collecting data on squirrels. You can find the written version of this text here on our website: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/nuts

Review: NUTS

Again, don't mind me, just backdating some audio that I couldn't record because Ive been siiiick

this is a review of the game Calico in which you have a cat cafe and you can pick up horses. I wish it had been 10x longer. please make a DLC

you can find the written version of this review here: https://www.thewhitepube.co.uk/calico

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Review: Calico

this week's review is Maquette, the new game by Graceful Decay that was published by Annapurna Interactive. it's a puzzle-adventure. it was too hard. but maybe I'm just stupid now? 

you can find the text version of this review on thewhitepube.com/maquette

Review: Maquette

Time 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 nuance and subtlety. We’re so glad to be able to support Orna & her work, and we hope you’ll see the tenderness that we saw. 

Bio:
Orna Kazimi is an afghan artist based in London. Orna’s work and research explore personal encounters of migration in relation to collective memories of displacement through drawings, installation and writing. Her works have been shown at sight and sound workshop at Tate Exchange- Tate Modern- London 2018, overprint at Centre de la Gravure et de l’image imprimée museum-Belgium 2018, Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan-TCNJ Art Gallery- New Jersey 2014, 4th Afghan Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition- Queen’s Palace- Afghanistan 2013. She was awarded the Caspian Arts Foundation Scholarship (2016) and studied at Central Saint Martins in London (2018).

Links below if you want to read her work, listen to it, or follow Orna online:
Read Catfish on our website now [thewhitepube.com/writersgrant]
You can find Orna on Instagram @ornakazimi [https://www.instagram.com/ornakazimi/]
See more of Orna’s work and practice on her website [https://ornakazimi.com/]

Writers Grant Recipient 008: ORNA KAZIMI

this week’s text is a review of Sahej Rahal’s moving image work: finalforest.exe that’s up on Transmediale’s Almanac, their online programme accompanying their IRL activity.

read the text: thewhitepube.com/sahejrahalfinalforest

Sahej Rahal, finalforest.exe for Transmediale's Almanac

We are so happy to announce the sixth recipient of The White Pube Writers Grant: Asmaa Jama. Asmaa sent us a selection of their poems, and we just fell in love. Their work contains the rumbling thrill of fitting together the knot of words, the puzzle of spaces, breaks, alternative endings, no pauses, all flow. We think it is the kind of writing we enjoy because it feel like the poet enjoyed writing it too; we’d like to think this is true, that it has an aura when you’re in its proximity. We hope you feel that enjoyment too.  

If you would like to see the written version of these works, or read more by Asmaa, or any of our other previous recipients, head to thewhitepube.com/writersgrant

As always, thank you to everyone that sent in examples of their writing. We refer back to the same bank of applications to choose a new recipient each month, so hold tight. And thank you to Creative Debuts for funding it, so glad we can run this grant for working class writers, n make small differences.

Writers Grant Recipient 006: ASMAA JAMA

This week’s text is an art thought! called: what do critics do? its a lil bit existential crisis, but i also chatted to Morgan Quaintance, Jerry Saltz, Rianna Jade Parker & Waldemar Januszczak about what they think.

read the text: thewhitepube.co.uk/whatdocriticsdo