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Will Jennings

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Writer, artist, editor, curator Editor: recessed.space Director: Hypha Studios Teaching: UCL Bartlett Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when as a freelancer I am my employer

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 16d

I had a really fascinating conversation with artist Mark Leckey last Friday, which included thoughts around the famous Camden Bench hostile architecture, medieval transformation, the Y2K bug, Everton FC, countercultural spaces, mushrooms & all sorts.

recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social · 16d

The title of Mark Leckey's new Berlin exhibition invokes a bodily and historic narrative - thrown into a vortex with thoughts the internet, neoliberal space, found footage, music & more. Our conversation covered all these things and much, much more:

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 7h

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 1d

For @canvasmag I wrote about the new @dirimart gallery in London, and also made mention of the sad loss of I Camisa & Son deli in Soho.

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recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social · 1d

A Deeper Recess 014: a conversation with Sumayya Vally

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 3d

Just me taking off in a helicopter to look at a small building on top of a mountain in the Alps this afternoon.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 4d

11am at night you say?

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · May 8

There is one building in the world that makes me cry a bit because it's too perfect. It's the best building, and every time I'm in Venice I take a few moments to be with it. The Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Shame you didn't get this one
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Antisocial swan removed from Stratford-upon-Avon

Reggie the swan caused disruption on the river for months, but will start a new life in Devon.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Artist Julian Von Bismarck has created a line drawing of Dossena Mine into the mine itself. Part of the Orobie Biennial organised by Gamec, Bergamo.

Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 4d

Gatwick North

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recessed.space @recessedspace.bsky.social · 5d

In search of oracular places at the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts

By Lorenzo Graf & Riccardo Buck

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 4d

...a few hours later

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 4d

This was fun to write with colleagues: US billionaires take over Belgravia building on.ft.com/3WkJL31

Luxury London apartment building draws influx of US billionaires

[FREE TO READ] Stephen Schwarzman and Ken Griffin among owners of residences inside five-star Peninsula hotel

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 4d

What's the point of the guardian any more? Please can we have less bullshit "commentator" guff like this and more journalism and criticism please?

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 5d

Hard at work editing a really excellent interview with an even excellenter architect, which you can read Monday by signing up here:
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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 5d

At the moment in Seoul, the streets are busy with far right, progressive, environmental & government protests. Meanwhile, in his biennial, Thomas Heatherwick is asking how cities could be better if we let luxury jewellery designers create facades.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 6d

Are designers ok?

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 6d

I only went to G-A-Y once, with some other gay friends. They went in & when it was my turn the bouncer stopped me: "do you realise it's a gay bar?". Clearly my brown cords weren't gay enough.

That said, Soho is currently a joke, it's mainly just TikTok food outlets.

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G-A-Y Bar to close as Old Compton Street 'has lost LGBT identity' - BBC News

Owner Jeremy Joseph says it is "time to say goodbye" as he hopes to keep his other venue open.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 7d

Very excited that I just got tickets to see Super Furry Animals at Brixton Academy next May!

Last time I saw them there was 2001. I am now old. And after taking these absolutely garbage very-red-eye photos of them I doubt they will let me backstage again.
24 bloody years ago.

Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 7d

I couldn't imagine a more self indulgent and annoying group of people to be on an organising committee.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 7d

This is a whole article in the @theguardian.com about the design and use of a new building, but it doesn't once mention the architects - Haworth Tompkins.

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‘A venue like this doesn’t exist elsewhere’: inside the colossal arena built for The Hunger Games

London’s Canary Wharf is being turned into the Capitol, with a bespoke £26m theatre made for the stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestseller. Our writer goes on a hard-hat tour

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 7d

No, I saw them. And?