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Tag: Opera Erratica

  • Toujours et Pres de Moi

    Toujours et Pres de Moi

    Opera Erratica at Spitalfields Winter Music Festival on Tuesday night (11th December) – and I was feeling decidedly underdressed. No, it wasn’t because I was at ‘posh opera’ and I should have put on a white tie or some other moth-balled nonsense, No, it was just the intense cold walking there, one of those rare…

  • More from this Pulsating Machine

    More from this Pulsating Machine

    WordStall is a new writing project. If you pressed me, I’d call what we write creative, creative non-fiction… if that had a meaning that made any sense (which it doesn’t). WordStall feels to me to exist in a fluid continental location somewhere between the mitteleuropa feuilleton and street performance art, and – while our old…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.