As part of Staking Claims on the Distance we commissioned Euan Lynn to record this audiowalk, which can be listened to anywhere, and used as a tool to reexamine our relationship with our surroundings.

Learn more about the whole project here: https://stakingclaims.hotglue.me/ or on The NewBridge Project website: https://thenewbridgeproject.com/events/staking-claims-on-the-distance/

Euan Lynn - Right To Roam

A a 25min mix by Glasgow based DJ Junglehussi to accompany suspiration! by Camara Taylor, as part of Slow Breath https://thenewbridgeproject.com/events/slow-breath/

2021 Mix - Junglehussi

In place of a live event, NewBridge Books are pleased to host this recorded conversation, marking the launch of a book by Newcastle-based artist, and NewBridge Associate Member, Craig Pollard.

In May this year, Inside a Gleaming Feeling was published by Glasgow’s The Grass is Green in the Fields for You. It is a book of conference papers, lectures and excerpts on music, art making and the internet. Craig is joined here by Jess Higgins, a Glasgow-based artist and writer who sings in the band Vital Idles and is a key member of Good Press, a volunteer-run bookshop for self published printed matter.

It was recorded in the immediate wake of the book’s release, and feels like a fitting celebration for the launch – a meandering conversation taking in music, art, education, DIY, politics and protest, interspersed with bursts of music; a back and forth that suggests the possibility of a kind of essay-making through conversation.

Talking points include (but are not limited to): Institutional fumbling; Re-imagining debt; Opting to not cite the cannon; Language and exclusivity; Normalising scrutiny of professionals; How whiteness replicates itself; Being irreverent to the history you’re taught (or teaching); American hardcore as a romanticised history; Boredom and performance.

Craig and Jess have provided a list of citations for topics mentioned, as well as a track list of songs played: https://thenewbridgeproject.com/events/newbridge-books-craig-pollard-jess-higgins/

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