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Author: Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie is an artist and art historian, in her fifth and final year of an MA Fine Art at The University of Edinburgh. Her primary research interests are collage, cinema, contemporary art and feminism. She is currently producing a body of work that explores the olfactory history of women and love, and researching the value of historical reenactment to the study of (art) history. Her artistic portfolio can be found at https://katcutlermackenzie.cargo.site.

The Essay, The Object and The Re-mix: de-centring the human in The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman review

15th May 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Lieke Marsman’s brilliantly ‘cool’ novel, The Opposite of a Person (translated by Sophie Collins), is at once a novel about love and language, people and the individual, nature and the ideas we wield over the natural world, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Daunt Books, Daunt Books Originals, Environment, Lieke Marsman, Novel, Sophie Collins, The Opposite of a Person, translated fiction

Interview with author Loranne Vella: ‘This idea of a room, of a home, is very important, as the body is the first home’

16th February 202217th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie talks to Maltese author and performer Loranne Vella about her collection of short fiction, what will it take for me to leave, the influence of performance on her work, memory as a liberating and imprisoning force, European feminism and her upcoming novel, Marta Marta.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Books, Books in translation, Elizabeth is Missing, Feminism, Jen Calleja, Julia Kristeva, Kat Storace, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Loranne Vella, Malta, Maltese fiction, Maltese Literature, Monique Wittig, My Body's Bodies Editorial, novels, Paul Preciado, Praspar Press, Short Stories, Simone de Beauvoir

Bringing the body to the text in Loranne Vella’s What Will It Take For Me To Leave

14th February 202215th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Bodies traverse histories, tap into memories and are saturated with feelings and experiences in Loranne Vella’s superb short fiction collection, What Will It Take For Me To Leave, translated by Kat Storace.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Bodies, Books, Books in translation, Jen Calleja, Kat Storace, Loranne Vella, Maltese fiction, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Praspar Press, short fiction, Short Stories, Translation, What Will It Take For Me To Leave, Zvezdan Reljić

O.o.o.h!: a menstrual project by Ben Caro and Kat Cutler-MacKenzie

10th January 202213th February 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Artists Kat Cutler-MacKenzie and Ben Caro discuss their collaborative work, O.o.o.h! , a semi-pedagogic, semi-absurd investigation into the menstrual cycle inspired, in part, by the thought of philosopher Graham Harman and the photographs of Rafal Miłach.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: abortion rights, art, Ben Caro, Bodies, Graham Harman, Kat Cutler-MacKenzie, menstruation, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Oooh!, protest, Rafal Miłach

Locating the ‘new’ in The New Abject: Tales of Modern Unease

15th August 202115th August 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

This exhilarating anthology of short stories challenges us to look beyond the shiny façade of ‘the new’ and to embrace ‘the abject’ – the ambiguous, the old, the distressing parts of ourselves and our society – and to ask what place the abject should have in our culture today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: anthology, Book Review, Comma Press, Georges Bataille, Julia Kristeva, Ra Page, Sarah Eyre, Short Stories, Tales of Modern Unease, the abject, The New Abject

Gargoyles by Harriet Mercer: a lyrical exploration of the space between life and death

6th May 20217th May 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

In the aftermath of serious illness, Harriet Mercer explores painful and often traumatic experiences in a narrative that beautifully renders what is still, too often, “unthinkable / unthought”.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Health and WellbeingTagged: Dead Ink Books, Gargoyles, Harriet Mercer, illness, pain, recovery, trauma

In conversation with award-winning novelist Niven Govinden: ‘I believe in the autonomy of the people that I write’

30th March 20219th June 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie talks to award-winning author Niven Govinden about his latest book Diary of a Film, the power and freedom of walking, the importance of the cinematic lens to his writing and assertive characters.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: All The Days and Nights, author, Basquiat, Dialogue Books, Diary of a Film, Feminism, Film, Gender, Laura Mulvey, Masculinity, Niven Govinden, Queer Art, queer literature, This Brutal House

Diary of a Film by Niven Govinden – a ‘skin to eye’ portrait of queer love, cinema and la dolce vita

23rd February 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Niven Govinden’s latest novel, Diary of a Film, is a love letter to the art of cinema, a sensuous portrayal of the relationships occurring behind the camera as well as on-screen.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: cinema, Dialogue Books, Diary of a Film, Federico Fellini, Film, Krzysztof Zanussi, La Dolce Vita, Niven Govinden, Novel, queer love, The Folded Leaf, The Structure of Crystal, This Brutal House, William Maxwell

Writing with: Hélène, Julia, and Virginia

18th January 202120th January 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

In this creative, collagic essay, Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie writes with and through the words of Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva to convey the freedom of writing and kinship felt when reading their works.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Feminism, Friends, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Orlando, Psycho-analysis, The Laugh of The Medusa, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, writing

Translation is a place of resting, of being in common

15th December 202015th December 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

After an Erasmus exchange in Paris, artist and art historian Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie discovered that translation is about the space between languages and voices; a space that affords us new connections, ideas and friendships.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Erasmus, France, French, friendship, Ground Provisions, Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Language, Languages, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Life in Languages, Paris, Photography, Sealy Thompson, Stefano Harney, Translation

Postcards in Isolation 8: Guerrilla Girls, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988

13th June 202020th June 2020  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie reflects on the seminal work, The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist, 1988, by Guerrilla Girls, and calls for women in the art world to be more politically engaged and active in their practise.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Art History, Charlotte Burns, Feminism, Gaby Porter, Guerrilla Girls, Julia Halpern, Linda Nochlin, Lockdown Living, Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Steggals, National Portrait Gallery, Postcards in Isolation, Tate
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